Silver Ferns coach Noeline Taurua
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The World Cup winning coach is currently signed up until February next year.
Dame Noeline received a contract extension offer from Netball New Zealand some time ago but admits she s a bit of a procrastinator when it comes to life admin. I was looking at that last week and thinking geez I ve got to move into that and it s all my fault and I ve got that on my to do list, laughed the 52-year-old. My intent is I m going to be there definitely so that s where my heart is, to be there for the next worlds, but I also want to make sure that I m the right person and that our sport is moving ahead and in the direction that it needs to. So, I ve just got to put the space and time to actually make sure those mechanisms are included, let s put it that way in the contracting.
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Netball in New Zealand has experienced a resurgence in playing numbers in stark constrast to what was happening with close rivals Australia.
Netball Australia released a wide-ranging report this week that showed the organisation continued to battle with ways to remain relevant.
While Netball New Zealand s head of community netball Ruth Stanley acknowledged the some of the issues facing her counterparts could be applied to a local context she also pointed out some of the ways that her organisation was doing it differently. We do get people dropping out of netball, so we do want to be able to retain them and uniform could be one of those things that they don t want to wear a short, tight dress, they d rather play in a format that s more relaxed on uniform, more relaxed on the actual format of the game, Stanley said.