Welcome to our September Shoots and News! It is starting to feel like Spring and we are looking forward to our Spring League starting soon and our term 4 futureFERNS in New Plymouth.  

We are excited to announce Woolworths as the new naming partner nationally for futureFERNS and locally Subway in the Valley Mega Centre are kindly sponsoring our term 4 certificates and providing free subs for our player of the days.

We had our Major Awards 2023 Ceremony last week which was amazing to be able to recognise all of the hard work this year.  Congratulations to all of our finalists and winners.  Thank-you also to our wonderful life members and board members who supported us on the day.

Topics covered this issue:

  • Taranaki Open Representatives
  • Major Awards 2023
  • Taranaki Umpires - well done
  • Cadbury Volunteer of the Month - August 2023
  • Taranaki Championship 2023
  • Satellite Section Winners

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Congratulations to Che, Andrea, Anna and our Opens team who travelled to the Opens fixtures in Wellington and Netball Smart Netball New Zealand Tournament in Dunedin where they came 15th.

Well done to our Taranaki Umpires who have been recognised nationally over the last few months.

Jane Hickmott was chosen to umpire at the NZ Open Champs in Dunedin at the beginning of September and then was selected alongside AJ Brown to umpire at the New Zealand Men's Netball Nationals in Auckland last weekend.

Donna Plasmeyer has been appointed to the 2023 NNZ Secondary Schools Tournament in Auckland from Tuesday 3 - Friday 6 October.

The ongoing commitment of our volunteers is outstanding.

Congratulations to Jane Hickmott for being chosen for the Volunteer of the month for August 2023.

Nominations are now open for the Cadbury Volunteer of the year for 2023.  

Please nominate your volunteers here: 

https://www.netballnz.co.nz/netball-nz/community/volunteering.html

Congratulations to the teams who played in the Taranaki Champs, it was such a great day of Netball.

Special congratulations to the overall winners: Te Paepae O Aotea Senior A!

Thank-you to our umpires: Zoe Hall, Nicole Chadwick, Arlo Beckett, Brooke Wells, Sam Burkhart, Amber Cox and everyone who helped make the day such a success.

Congratulations to all of the Satellite Section Winners for 2023.

For a full list of winners: https://www.sporty.co.nz/asset/downloadasset...