Netball Victoria has announced its initial squads for the Victoria under-17 and under-19 teams for next year’s national championships.
Fifty players have been named for each age group which will be whittled down to select the final teams. The squads will train between now and the championships and slowly whittled down to the final teams.
The teams will then compete in the national championships next year.
City West Falcons Jacinta Todd will coach the under-17 squad having held that role this year.
Falcons Charlize Bellette and Ella Leith have been named in the squad as has Altona Netball Association’s Imogen Sexton, Manon Muir and Lucy Butcher.
Western Warriors Kiara Boyd and Emily Porter are in the squad as is St Albans and Caroline Springs Netball Association’s Haleina Tanoi and Westside Saints’ Emily Fitzgerald.
Riddell District Netball League’s Chloe Eyre, who plays for Lancefield, and Northern Netball League’s Abbey Luttick are others among the 50 players to be selected in the under-17 squad.
In the under-19 squad are Western Warriors and Darley’s Ella Closter, Falcons and Romsey’s Emily Miles, Falcons and Melton Centrals’ Elisa Butterworth-Gonebale, Melbourne University’s and Riddell’s Eliza Burge,
Burge was part of the under-17 team this year that claimed a bronze medal at the nationals.
Adrian Ballantyne will coach the under-19 team.
