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Kath Godber, Netball Manager
Welcome to the 2010 Netball Season
As the new Netball Manager in the Sports Department I would like to welcome all netball parents and their daughters to the 2010 netball season. A warm welcome is also extended to the contracted and parent coaches, and to the parent managers and umpires. Your contribution is invaluable to the health and success of the netball programme at St Cuthbert’s College, so thank you in advance for your excellent work on behalf of the school.
I would like to congratulate the players on their successful selection as representatives of the College, and wish them a personally challenging and rewarding experience in netball this year. Whether they play at Premier level or in a Year 4 Future Ferns team I would encourage every player to strive to achieve her best effort in every game, and to represent her school, self, family and friends with pride and good sportsmanship. I would also like to congratulate each senior student in our netball community who has stepped up and offered her valuable time to assist as either a Student Coach Going Solo (SCGS), a Student Coach on the Mentoring Programme (SCOMP), or as a Student Umpire (SU). In these roles senior students have a privileged opportunity to develop and excel, to lead and to learn, and to become a positive role model for junior students to follow.
The 2010 season has started in a positive and enthusiastic manner. Rigorous trials and a detailed selection process have culminated in forty nine teams being entered in the AMI Auckland Netball Centre Secondary Schools’ Competition for 2010. Grading games will be played at all year levels for three weeks from 01 May 2010, except for the St Cuthbert’s College Premier team which has avoided the promotion/relegation rounds by achieving a final placing in the top 4 teams last year.
To conclude my welcome, I would like to thank Miss Anna Molineaux, one of the Sports Coordinators in the Sports department, for her outstanding work during the netball pre-season. Marlene Flavell (Senior Mentor) and Nicky Read (2010 Premier coach) have also made a significant contribution to the selection process, including the allocation of senior students to appropriate leadership roles within the netball community at St Cuthbert’s College.
I wish you all an enjoyable and successful netball season 2010.
Mrs Kath Godber
Netball Manager/Sports Coordinator
Netball Holiday Camp & Go Girls Netball
Please click the links below to download and print out information about The Netball Holiday camps for 2010 and the Go Girls Netball programmes for 2010 and 2011.
2010 Netball Prizegiving
The St Cuthbert’s Junior Netball Prize Giving will be held on Monday 13 September, 1pm in the Sports Centre for all Year 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8 players, coaches, managers and parent supporters.
The St Cuthbert’s College Senior Netball Prize Giving will be held on Thursday, 16 September, 1pm in the Sports Centre for all Year 9, 10, Senior and Premier players, coaches, managers, and parent supporters.
Double Sister Act
Sulu Tone-Fitzpatrick (13M) and Theresa Fitzpatrick (11HP) have more in common than their family name. This double sister act has recently returned from a very successful Trans Tasman International Schoolgirls’ Netball Challenge in Adelaide, in which Sulu played for the New Zealand Secondary Schools’ team and Theresa was the youngest member of the Pacific Rim Secondary School team.
The NZSS team won the final against Australia for the second year in succession, with Theresa’s Pacific Rim Secondary School team third.
“The highlight for me was winning the International Schoolgirls Challenge and beating the Australians, especially in the last quarter which was very physical” (S)
“I had awesome support from my team who treated me as an equal, even though I was the youngest” (T)
When asked how the sisters cope with the pressure of international competition, Sulu replied, “I just focus on my job and take every moment as it comes”.
Theresa admitted that she looks up to her big sister and that there is a bit of healthy rivalry between them. Sulu confided that she always makes an extra effort to perform well when she knows that Theresa is watching her.
The New Zealand born sisters of Samoan descent also excel in athletics and basketball, but their passion and greatest achievements have been in their preferred sport of netball. Both Premier players in 2009, the talented sister combination faced a split this year when Sulu was selected to train and play for the Northern Mystics in the ANZ Netball Championships. The demise of the Mystics before the quarter finals in June was fortunate for our College Premier team who were struggling without both sisters on court.
Sulu and Theresa will now train together to prepare for the Upper North Island Secondary School Championships which will be held at the Auckland Netball Centre, from 30 August until 03 September.
Kath Godber – Netball Manager