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Junior netball continues to thrive at the Netball Rodney Centre in Wellsford, with a mind-boggling 56 teams from throughout the region turning up to play on the Centennial Park courts every Saturday.
This season, teams from Years 3 and 4, and 5 and 6, are having to play on the old tennis courts, while Years 1 and 2, and 7 and 8, are on netball courts that are still playable, centre president Kelly Ayres said.
As with several other sports and clubs, the netball centre has been waiting for facilities to be updated and improved by Auckland Council and Rodney Local Board for many years, and some courts are not playable this season. Ayres said it was good to have the Centennial Park Masterplan finally signed off and a timeline for improvements to be carried out over the next four to five years.
In the meantime, she said having spectators confined to outside the tennis court’s high fencing was not necessarily a bad thing, since it meant the young players had plenty of space and were not being crowded by passionate parents.
Ayres said she was grateful to all the centre’s many clubs and members for their continued support.
“It has been a really uncertain time for everybody, so having their support is awesome,” she said.
Netball Rodney Centre has more than 700 players including its senior teams, with players coming from as far north as Maungaturoto and Waipu, as far south as Warkworth and Kaipara Flats, and right out to both east and west coasts.
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