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Bailey Mes has returned from a long injury layoff to play for the Northern Mystics this year. Bailey Mes had to be patient for more than a year while she recovered from a knee injury, but she’s back on court with the Northern Mystics and making up for lost time. The 31-year-old has started all four of their matches at goal attack alongside teenage shooting sensation Grace Nweke, helping them up to second on the ANZ Premiership ladder, behind their crosstown rivals, the Stars. She first retu...

Netball: Silver Ferns captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio announces pregnancy 7 May, 2021 01:20 AM 2 minutes to read NZ Herald Silver Ferns captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio will miss the remainder of the ANZ Premiership netball season, as well as the test series later this year, after announcing her pregnancy on Friday. Ferns coach Noeline Taurua congratulated the 30-year-old shooter and husband Damien on the news after the couple welcomed their first child, Ocean, in 2017. "The ability for our elite fema...

“Looking back on Con Cup I was really proud to have been a part of that campaign, to lead that campaign and to obviously bring home the cup,” Ekenasio said. “It was such a big moment for us. We worked such a long time for it, so to find out I was pregnant at the same time felt like even more of an achievement for me personally. Peter Meecham/Getty Images Silver Ferns captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio and coach Noeline Taurua celebrate with the Constellation Cup back in March. “I played th...

Friday, 7 May 2021, 12:42 pm | Silver Ferns Netball World Cup winning coach Dame Noeline Taurua and Netball New Zealand have extended their best wishes to Silver Ferns captain Ameliaranne Ekenasio who has announced her pregnancy. Taurua, who stood on top of the Netball World Cup dais alongside Ekenasio ... More >> Monday, 23 September 2019, 12:41 pm | Silver Ferns Silver Ferns coach Noeline Taurua has included two new faces to her Netball World Cup-winning side to contest next month’s Cadbu...

Giants Netball season preview A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Last season the Giants came sixth.  The biggest change to the Giants’ roster from 2020 is the loss of former Aussie Diamonds captain Caitlin Bassett. On paper that is a massive change. However, in 2020 Bassett struggled to receive court time and even resorted to reading books on the sideline. It was implied (or assumed) this was a result of ...

West Coast Fever season preview A Set the default text size A Set large text size Replay A Set the default text size A Set large text size Last season the West Coast Fever finished second. The West Coast Fever made the grand final in both 2018 and 2020 and split those grand final appearances with a sixth-place finish in 2019. The Fever lost a thrilling grand final to the Vixens by two points. Traditionally it would be goals but with the invention of the super shot, it is now po...

Photo: PHOTOSPORT Jury joined the Pulse in 2020, helped them to their second straight title and was subsequently recalled to the Silver Ferns squad. However 2021 didnt start so well: she was one of a couple of players dismissed from Noeline Tauruas Silver Ferns camp after failing fitness tests. She returned home and watched the Ferns score a historic 3-1 win over Australia in the Constellation Cup series. "Mentally it was hard, emotionally it was difficult," Jury said. "I felt like I disappoint...

Kai Schwoerer/Getty Images Silver Ferns wing attack Gina Crampton is one of several players to have switched teams ahead of the new ANZ Premiership season. There will be some familiar faces in unfamiliar dresses this Sunday and Monday as the 2021 ANZ Premiership season begins. Kate Burley with the Northern Mystics for starters, and Fa’amu Ioane. Gina Crampton with the Northern Stars, and Monica Falkner, and, out of retirement, Anna Harrison. Temalisi Fakahokotau with the Waikato-Bay of Pl...

JOHN DAVIDSON/Photosport Australian Diamonds star Caitlin Bassett has joined the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic for the 2021 ANZ Premiership season. At the end of the Constellation Cup in March, once the Silver Ferns loosened the Australian Diamonds’ tight grip on the trophy after nine years of trying, most of their opponents packed their bags and headed back across the Tasman. But the longest-serving Diamond, Caitlin Bassett, who captained her side in the opening match of the series, went a di...

Ameliaranne Ekenasio and Dame Noeline Taurua with the Constellation Cup 2021. Photo: PHOTOSPORT The two-time defending champions Central Pulse will be without their captain for the start of the national netball premiership this weekend. In a post on Instagram last month, Ekenasio said she had been struggling mentally and was seeing a therapist. Ekenasio missed last months pre-season tournament in Ōtaki to freshen up following the Silver Ferns Constellation Cup victory in which she played a hu...