Western Province Netball Academy

Recruitment for 2017 is happening right now!!

Massive congratulations to our Western Province Netball Academy girls who came 3rd in this weekend's Cape Town 10s competition!

The girls played awesome in their semi final game against the Cape Town 10s Legends team, which ended in a draw after full time. 5 extra minutes saw the girls give it their all narrowly missing a penalty shot in the dying seconds and letting the legends take the victory and continue on into the final!

Our academy girls won their 3rd/4th playoff against Trinity to finish the weekend on a high!

What a great first day at the Cape Town Tens yesterday. The girls are off to a flying start winning 3 out of 4 of their games! 2 more games to play today before the playoffs and final. Good luck girls!

Great to see some of the Western Province Hockey Academy and Cape Town International Tennis Academy athletes start their training today! More athletes to join this week and next! We wish them all the best for the intense year ahead

The academy athletes for hockey and tennis started their first day of training today!! We are excited to get the rest of our new members joining them this week and next!

Throughout the year we will be showing their progress and development so stay tuned!

Head coach Lee-Ann Dawson began testing the Western Province Hockey Academy players this morning and she was very impressed by their standards! We hope our netball players will follow suit in the coming year!

Are you heading to the Cape Town 10s this year? If so, look out for our sponsored netball team wearing our newly designed WPNA netball dresses! This design will be used for the WPNA kit in 2017, don't they look great!

Happy New Year everyone! Now we've entered 2016 and are back at work, it's time to plan and prep for our 2017 program! We have lots of exciting things coming your way this year including sponsoring a team at the Cape Town tens, holding netball skill sessions and workshops, and also visiting schools in the Western Cape. Keep your eyes peeled on our page to stay up to date and ensure you don't miss out!

Meet the coaches! Lee-Ann Dawson will be the WPNA's SAQ (Speed, Agility, Quickness) coach. Sport is her main passion in life, and has based her profession around what she loves doing. Lee-Ann has been an SAQ coach for 7 years helping many individuals along the way, such as: The Western Province Hockey Academy athletes, The Goodsport Trust coaches, disabled children and primary school children.

"SAQ training has made such amazing improvements in my personal sporting career that I want everyone I coach to reap the benefits and take their own sport skills to a high level." Lee-Ann Dawson

SAQ is used worldwide by many famous and successful athletes. We look forward to Lee-Ann implementing SAQ training into the WPNA program!

Meet the coaches! Lushinka Scott will be the WPNA's netball coach. She is a dedicated netball player as well as a fun and enthusiastic coach for numerous years.

"Netball has been a passion of mine for many years, having played SA Schools Netball and Western Province Netball since 2003. I enjoy coaching and have completed the Coaching Accreditation Course held by Western Australian Netball."

"My dream goal from the age of 16 was to promote women’s sport in South Africa, and get it the publicity it deserves. 10 years later my dream seems to be coming true."

We are excited to be working with Lushinka and look forward to following her training with the WPNA athletes!

The Western Province Netball Academy will be training in association with the Athlete Development Centre, check out the page for more information.

Athlete Development Centre The Athlete Development Centre (ADC) is a training facility dedicated to increasing the performance of current and aspiring sports professionals as well individuals who simply want to develop their athletic ability, get in shape or have a great workout.