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Severn Stars
Severn Stars are an netball in England, English netball team based at the University of Worcester. The team is named after the River Severn, which runs through Worcester, England, Worcester and Gloucester, the original home cities of the two universities. Severn Stars were formed in 2016 in England, 2016 and since 2017 Netball Superleague season, 2017 their senior team has played in the Netball Superleague. The franchise disbanded at the end of the 2024 season after it was not offered a contract in the relaunched Netball Superleague. Birmingham Panthers (netball), Birmingham Panthers was instead named as a franchise for the region and entered its inaugural season in 2025. History New franchise In June 2016 it was announced that Severn Stars, together with Wasps Netball and Scottish Sirens, would be one of three new franchises that would join the Netball Superleague for the 2017 Netball Superleague season, 2017 season. Severn Stars were formed as a partnership between the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2016 In England
This article serves as a list of major events which occurred in 2016 in England Incumbent Events January *2 January – Rail fares in England, Scotland and Wales rise by 1.1%, in line with current inflation rates. *12 January – Junior doctors in England providing non-emergency care strike for 24 hours in a dispute with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt over pay and working hours. *13 January – MPs give initial support to the idea of National anthem of England, England adopting an official national anthem. *14 January – **The gang of "brazen burglars" involved in the £14m Hatton Garden safe deposit burglary, Hatton Garden jewellery heist, dubbed the "largest burglary in English legal history", face jail after the final three are convicted of involvement. **The Metropolitan Police announce that an extra 600 armed officers are to be trained and patrols more than doubled to help counter the threat of a terrorist attack in London. *15 January – Tim Peake conducts the first spacew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josie Janz-Dawson
Josie Janz-Dawson (born 24 February 1988) is an Australian netball player in the Netball Superleague The Netball Super League is an elite netball league in the United Kingdom. The league is organised by England Netball but features teams based in Netball in England, England, Netball in Wales, Wales and previously Netball in Scotland, Scotland. ... who will play for Team Bath (netball), Team Bath in 2018. She works at the David Wirrpanda Foundation in the Dare to Dream program as the project officer. Janz-Dawson began working at the foundation as a mentor for young Indigenous children. Janz-Dawson was born in Thursday Island. And was raised in a small town in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberley known as Derby, Western Australia, Derby. Janz-Dawson played for the Australian under 21s in Jamaica in 2009. References2009 West Coast Fever player profile Retrieved on 2009-03-20.2008 West Coast Fever team profile Retrieved on 2008-06-13.ANZ Championship profile Retrieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nia Jones
Nia Jones (born 6 April 1992) is an athlete who has represented Wales internationally at both netball and football. She won the FAW Young Player of the Year Award in 2011. She was nominated for the SportingWales Magazine and UWIC Rising Star Award in 2013. She currently plays for Adran Premier club Swansea City. Early and personal life Jones was born in Wrexham. After attending school at Ysgol Maes Garmon she later studied Sports and PE at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. Netball career Jones plays netball as either goal defence or wing defence. She began her career at Mold Netball Club, and she captained the Welsh national teams at under-17 and under-21 youth level. She also played for Manchester Thunder Youth and Junior Dragons. She was also Co-Captain of the Wales Senior Team. She was captain of the Celtic Dragons for their 2019 Super League season. During the 2021-2022 season she captained the Celtic Dragons, before moving to play for the Leeds Rhinos in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phumza Maweni
Phumza Maweni (born September 4, 1984) is a South African netball player in the Netball Superleague in the UK, representing Team Bath Netball. Maweni was raised in Cala, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. She went on to compete for the Kingdom Stars and Southern Stings in the South African Brutal Fruit Netball Cup and has also played several seasons in England's Netball Superleague, first for the Loughborough Lightning and later for the Severn Stars. Maweni's exceptional form in the local South African league led to national team coach Norma Plummer calling on her to be signed by foreign clubs in higher profile leagues. She has featured for the South Africa national netball team on several occasions, most notably in the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She was signed by the Sunshine Coast Lightning in Australia ahead of the 2019 season and spent three seasons with the Suncorp Super Netball The Super Netball League (known predominantly by its sponsored name Suncorp Group, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maryka Holtzhausen
Maryka Holtzhausen (born 2 June 1987) is a former South African netball player. She played in the positions of GA and WA. She was a member of the South Africa national netball team, and competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore. She also participated in the 2010 World Netball Series and the 2011 World Netball Series. She played in the 2012 Netball Quad Series, and in the same year, she won a bronze medal in 2012 Fast5 Netball World Series with the Fast5 Proteas. Holtzhausen was the first player from her country to line up in the UK's leading competition, the Netball Superleague, joining Loughborough Lightning for the 2015 season. She has also played for Free State Crinums and Spar Proteas She's played for Severn Stars for the 2018 season and she'll be back for the 2019 season. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liana Leota
Liana Leota (née Barrett-Chase; born 31 October 1984) is a New Zealand netball player. She is a member of the national netball team, the Silver Ferns, and plays for Severn Stars in the British Netball Superleague. Leota was a member of the Southern Sting in 2007, which won the National Bank Cup that year. She also played for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic in 2006 and the Western Flyers from 2003–2005. She continued playing in Invercargill with the Southern Steel in the new ANZ Championship, which started in 2008. That same year, Leota debuted in the Silver Ferns against Australia. Since her debut, she has cemented her position in the Silver Ferns' midcourt. For the 2010 ANZ Championship season, Leota received the Most valuable Player award. Leota and Wendy Frew were named as co-captains of the Southern Steel for 2011. She signed for Netball Superleague side Manchester Thunder for the 2016 Season on 27 October 2015. Following a championship winning season with Thunder, Le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Towera Vinkhumbo
Towera Vinkhumbo (born 14 February 1991), also referred to as Towera Vinkhumbo-Nyirenda or Towera Nyirenda, is a Malawi netball international and a Malawi women's football international. As a netball player she represented Malawi at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2011, 2015 and 2019 Netball World Cups. Vinkhumbo was also a member of the Malawi team that finished third at the 2016 Fast5 Netball World Series. At club level, Vinkhumbo plays for Strathclyde Sirens in the Netball Superleague. In July 2019, the same month she played for Malawi in the 2019 Netball World Cup, she also represented Malawi at the 2019 COSAFA Women's Football Championship. She also played for Malawi in 2020 Summer Olympic football qualifiers. Early life and family Vinkhumbo was born in Chitawira Private Hospital in Blantyre. She is the ninth-born of eleven children–six girls and five boys, three of whom died. Vinkhumbo began playing both netball and association football wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodi-Ann Ward
Jodi-Ann Ward (born 1 September 1994) is a Jamaican netball player who plays in the Australian Suncorp Super Netball league for Giants Netball. She has also represented the Jamaica at an international level since 2017. Career Ward made her international debut in late 2017 against Barbados at the age of 22. She was also selected for the Jamaican netball team to take part at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She was a key member of the Jamaican squad which stunned New Zealand in the bronze medal match as a part of the 2018 Commonwealth Games. As of October 2019 she has attained 25 test caps. Ward has played domestic netball in several countries. Her career began in the Jamaican elite league for St. Catherine Racers in 2017, before she was signed by UK Netball Superleague club the Severn Stars ahead of the 2019 season. Ward played in England for one year before being signed by the Collingwood Magpies The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashleigh Brazill
Ashleigh Brazill (born 29 December 1989 in Campbelltown, New South Wales) is an Australian rules footballer who plays for the Fremantle Football Club in the AFL Women's. She previously played netball for the Collingwood Magpies, and Australian rules football for the Collingwood Football Club, playing both sports concurrently. She also played for the West Coast Fever, New South Wales Swifts and the Australia national team during her netball career. Netball career Domestic Brazill made her domestic league debut for the New South Wales Swifts in 2010. She made the move to the West Coast Fever in 2012 and made an immediate impact, winning the club's MVP for the season. Brazill suffered with injuries over the next two seasons which restricted her time on court. Despite sitting out most of the 2014 ANZ Championship season Brazill captained Western Sting, leading the Fevers' reserves team to a bronze medal in the second-tier Australian Netball League (ANL). She was also named joint P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodie Gibson
Jodie Gibson (born 30 October 1992) is an English netball player. She was part of the England squad that won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. At a club level, she represents Saracens Mavericks and has previously played for Severn Stars, Manchester Thunder Manchester Thunder are an English netball team based in Manchester. Their senior team plays in the Netball Super League. In 2005–06, Thunder were founding members of the league. They were Super League champions in 2012, 2014, 2019 and 2022 ... and Loughborough Lightning. References 1992 births Living people Alumni of the University of Worcester Sportspeople from Bury, Greater Manchester English netball players Netball players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games netball players for England Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England Loughborough Lightning netball players Mavericks netball players Manchester Thunder players Severn Stars players Netball Superleague players Medall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ama Agbeze
Ama Agbeze (born 12 November 1982) is an England netball international. She was captain when England won the gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. In 2019 she received an for her services to netball. She was also a member of the England team that won the bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. As of 2020, Agbeze has played for at least sixteen different club teams in England, Australia and New Zealand. Early life, family and education Agbeze was born to Nigerian parents in Birmingham. She has two older sisters and a younger brother. She was educated at Kings Norton Girls' School and Monkton Combe School. Between 2004 and 2007 she attended Loughborough University where she gained an MSc in Finance and Management. She also studied Law and Criminal Justice at the University of Leicester and is a qualified lawyer. In 2016 she married Fred Donovan, a New Zealander, in Auckland. Playing career Super Cup During the Super Cup era, between 2001 and 2005, Agbeze played for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lefébre Rademan
Lefébre Rademan (born 22 August 1996) is a South African netball player, who has represented the national team. At club level, she plays for Severn Stars in the British Netball Superleague (NSL), and has previously played for Celtic Dragons and London Pulse in the NSL, as well as Free State Crinums in the South African Netball League. Personal life Rademan is from Riversdale, Western Cape, South Africa. She attended Langenhoven High School, and later studied education at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein. Club career Rademan started her career as a defender, but now plays as either a goal attack or a wing attack. Whilst at the University of the Free State, Rademan played Varsity netball for their team, the Kovsies. She later captained the side. She was part of the 2018 Kovsies team that won the Varsity Cup, and in 2019, she was named the season's best player and player's player of the year. In the same year, Rademan played for Free State Crinums in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |