Netball

Netball

Netball at King's is an enthusiastically led major game. We run successful senior and junior sides, and cater for players of all year groups and abilities. Our training sessions are run by passionate coaches, made up of teachers, support staff and an outside coach. The external coach supports both the juniors and seniors once a week. On a Tuesday and Thursday we offer structured and comprehensive skills training, fitness drills and match practice.  On a Wednesday and Saturday the competitive sides have either matches or match training.

We have a qualified umpire and Level 1 and 2 qualified coaches, and fully support and encourage our coaches to train annually to keep them up-to-date with changes within the game.

For the seniors we have four teams who play regular block fixtures. Our 1st team plays around 12 fixtures during the season, and is always entered into local tournaments as well as the National Independent School competition. The juniors have Under 15 A and B, and Under 14 A and B teams, and where other schools can offer a C fixture in either year group we always say yes. We have approximately ten block fixtures through the season.

We have regular overseas tours - within the last nine years we have been to Singapore and Malaysia, Barbados, and are touring to South Africa in August 2011.

We encourage the more gifted girls to play additional netball by allowing them to attend a local club for evening training (Galmington Netball Club). We also start the girls on the talent identification and development programme, which aims to support talented athletes within the region, helping them to reach their full potential and continue along the pathway to national level. The programme is set out by England Netball and referred to at regional level as the 'Somerset Netball Academy'.