It has been a great weekend for Jodie Blampied, Anya Le Monnier and Ebony Troy who all played for Team Bath NPL at the British Colleges Sport Tournament in Guildford. All three girls performed well and had a lot of court time. Their team results were: 

Saturday:
22 v 25 loss against Team South
31 v 26 loss against British Colleges Sport 1
24 v 24 draw against British Colleges Sport 2

Sunday:
20 v 15 win over British Colleges Sport 1
19 v 22 loss over Team South
32 v 16 win over British Colleges Sport 2
28 v 20 loss over Stars

The weekend of the 6th/7th July 2014 saw the introduction of the ‘Netball Performance Foundation League’ (NPFL), hosted at Redbridge Sport and Leisure Centre, Essex. The competition brought together the best U17 athletes in the country; providing a high pressure, high intensity environment, the type they may go onto experience in the NPL, NSL or on the international stage.

Regions were invited to enter one team per Regional Academy, providing a total of twelve teams for the weekend.  The teams competed in two ‘round robin’ pools on Day One, with games being played back to back across three courts.

Playing for the Plate were ‘East 1’ and ‘South West 2’ who both finished Day Two on 21 points! Ebony Troy captained the SW2 squad with Jodie Blampied as Vice-Captain. Unfortunately although Rebecca Forrest was selected to play she was unable to compete due to injury.

At half time of the Plate Final, the scores were level at 8-8, with both teams battling hard to be victorious.  The second half was extremely tense and with seconds left on the clock ‘East 2’ made a vital turnover, unfortunately for them the hooter sounded before they could convert and the final score was announced 13-12 to ‘South West 2’.

The Cup Final was to be played between ‘Yorkshire’, who finished on 19 points, and ‘South West 1’ who finished on 18 points. Anya Le Monnier competed in the SW1 squad.

The last game of the weekend was the Cup Final, and with ‘Yorkshire’ winning the group by 1 point it was destined to be an exciting game. ‘Yorkshire’ dominated the first half, and continued their success in the second half winning the game 13-7.

Congratulations to ‘Yorkshire’, who were worthy winners of the first ever NPFL competition! And well done to Anya, Jodie, Ebony and Rebecca who have worked so hard to reach this level.