ABOUT NETBALL

 

Netball is a fast, skilful team game based on running, jumping, throwing and catching. Teams may include up to 12 players but only 7 may take the court at any one time.

Netball's fundamentals are easy for new players to learn, and it is a common sport at schools in the Commonwealth. At primary home level, mixed teams are not uncommon. As adults, men and women can compete with each other on reasonably fair terms as the restrictions on defence, limitations of numbers and positions of male players, and the women's greater familiarity with the game, prevent men's superior strength and size gaining an overly large advantage.

A game consists of 4 x 15 minute quarters with an interval of 3 minutes between the first and second and third and fourth quarters and a 5 or 10 minute half time interval.

A game is played in four quarters, each one lasting 15 minutes, with intervals of three minutes between the first and second quarters, and between the third and fourth quarters. There is also an interval of five minutes at half time. If a player has an injury, a team-mate or umpire calls time, and the time keeper pauses the timer. When the game starts and the player has swapped places with another player, or is healthy, play is resumed and the timer is restarted.

 

The Positions

 

Each player has a playing position determined by the areas on the court where they may move. The playing positions are shown by identification letters worn above the waist, on both the front and the back of the player. Those positions are: Goal Shooter (GS), Goal Attack (GA), Wing Attack (WA), Centre ( C), Wing Defence (WD), Goal Defence (GD) and Goal Keeper (GS).

The major aim of the game is to score as many goals as is possible from within an area called the Goal Circle, which is a semi-circle centered on the goal line and measuring 4.9 metres in radius (16 feet). Only two players from each team may score goals, the Goal Attack and Goal Shooter.

 

 

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Netball Alberta

Box 270, 7620 Elbow Drive SW, Calgary, Alberta  T2V 1K2

Phone: (403) 238-8041

E-mail: contact@netballalberta.com

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