Gisborne Netball Centre

🌟 SECONDARY STUDENTS – LEADERSHIP WORKSHOPS 🌟

School holidays are the perfect opportunity to develop your leadership skills and give back to the game you love!

The NNZ Leadership Programme is designed for secondary school students who want to grow their confidence, develop valuable leadership skills, and explore pathways within netball beyond playing.

Through this programme, you'll gain skills that can lead to opportunities in:
🏐 Umpiring
🏐 Coaching
🏐 Youth Activator roles
Whether you're looking to build confidence, make new connections, or take on a bigger role within our netball community, this programme is for you!

📅 Registrations close Friday 3 July
📝 Register now via our website: https://www.sporty.co.nz/gisbornenc/Youth-1/nnz-netball-leaders-programme

PAK'nSAVE Gisborne Netball Tomorrow:

🦵Habit Health physio will be back onsite tomorrow - pop in for free strapping, or for any injury queries or referrals. Check their flyer below for any bookings.
☕Black Cat Coffee back tomorrow for your caffeine fix! Sorry, no fundraiser stall this week.
💅Players make sure your nails are short and jewellery removed - NO, you cannot tape it.
🛴NO WHEELS - no scooters, skateboard, roller skates or bikes around the courts
💨Courts are Smoke and V**e FREE. Please do it outside the gates
🐕NO dogs at the courts whanau
🍭NO GUM or Lollipops - the gum is gross and damaging ont the court surface, and lollipop sticks are disgusting thrown around. Don't bring them to netball.

✨futureFERNS - exciting news that Woolworths have provided Player of the Day Certificates for our Year 1-8 players and they have just arrived at GNC!! Pop to the tower to grab yours for tomorrow 😍

WM JUNE VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH:

Who is a superstar volunteer with your netball team? Jump on the link below to share the awesome ways they support your club, school or team and they'll go in the draw for the monthly prize! 🫶

https://www.sporty.co.nz/viewform/512205

Nominations Close on 21st June.

🏐 INTRODUCTION TO UMPIRING WORKSHOP 🏐

Want to build your confidence with the rules of the game? Whether you're a new umpire, an experienced umpire looking for a refresher, a coach, player, or parent wanting to better understand the game, this workshop is for you!

By getting everyone on the same page, we can reduce inconsistencies, improve game understanding, and create a better experience for all involved in our sport.

Please register here: https://www.sporty.co.nz/gisbornenc/umpiring/umpire-workshops - Registering helps us ensure we have the right number of resources available for everyone attending.

The game is better when we all understand it. Come along, learn, ask questions, and leave feeling more confident on and around the court! 🏐

Player of the Day:

Congratulations to Verna Jane Ngaau from Whalis who is our lucky Bollywood Stars player of the Day winner this week! Pop to the tower to collect your voucher 🤩

Check out the post this Saturday to nominate your player form our PAK'nSAVE Competition!

A huge congratulations to all of our teams for their outstanding performances at yesterday's EAST COAST Challenge! 🏆👏

We are incredibly proud of the effort, determination, and sportsmanship shown by every player who took the court and represented their teams.

Results:

🏆 U14 Grade
🥇 Winners – GGHS 9A
🥈 Runners Up – YMP Tahi

🏆 Year 7 & 8 A Grade
🥇 Winners – YMP Rua
🥈 Runners Up – Ngatapa Pulse

🏆 Year 7 & 8 B Grade
🥇 Winners – Nga Rangatahi o te Wairoa
🥈 Runners Up – YMP Toru

A special shout out to all the whānau, coaches, and managers whose support, dedication, and hard work helped get our teams to the Challenge. Your commitment behind the scenes plays a huge part in making days like this possible.

We would also like to give a special thank you to our Wairoa players and whānau who travelled to be part of the day. We appreciate the time, effort, and commitment it takes to make the journey, and we are grateful to have you involved.

It was a fantastic day of competition and whakawhanaungatanga.

VOLUNTEER OF THE MONTH

Congratulations to our May Volunteer of the Month Rhi Hauiti! Every centre winner goes in the draw for their zone, and Rhi was also the lucky winner of the WBoP prize too!

Rhi has been part of our Development Working Group, and assisted with our Secondary PDP Programme. She is the coach of our U16 Rep team.

On top of all the amazing mahi she has been doing with GNC, she was also a Tairawhiti Maori Netball coach, and coaches YMP Hine Taiohi and Ilminster 7B in our Saturday competition.

Thank you for the huge contribution you have been giving to rangatahi at our Centre through your coaching Rhi!

Prems Netball game line up for this week.

A couple of good things from today

Big congratulations to Jasmine Sparks for passing her assessment and gaining her Centre Umpire Award today. Well deserved after all the hard work she has put in

And if you didn’t notice, our umpires were also out in their new uniforms today. Pink for our junior umpires and orange for our senior umpires… and didn’t they look good and noticeable out there on court.

Bollywood Stars Player of the Day:

Comment below with your team name and your Player of the Day and they will be in the draw for a $50 Bollywood voucher!