After a full week of training camp that Netball South Africa hosted at the University of Stellenbosch, the federation announced that all the players invited to the training camp will be eligible to come back for another camp before the team is trimmed down to fifteen, after the new Spar Proteas Head Coach is announced.
Netball South Africa President, Cecilia Molokwane indicated that it would be an injustice to the team and the incoming coach if the selectors chose a team for her without her presence or input.
“It is the coach that will be working with the players, so it is only right that the coach selects her players to be able to manage them as she sees fit.”
“We felt that we need(ed) to wait for the appointment of the head coach before a team of fifteen can be finalised and announced.“
Netball South Africa President, Cecilia Molokwane
“What the camp has been able to do is identify a group we believe she can work with, and choose from. For now, the selectors have identified thirty players who they believe are the best out the original invited group,” said Molokwane.
Spar Proteas are currently without a head coach following the departure of Australian mentor Norma Plummer, in December 2023.
Netball South Africa conducted interviews to fill this post, and Molokwane has confirmed that the new Head Coach and entire technical team will be announced in February 2024, final date to be confirmed.
Molokwane concluded by saying: “Because these contracts are supposed to start 1st of January 2024, we will make sure that we backpay the fifteen players that the coach will announce, when she finally does that.
“We are of the belief that the players that are here will continue to work as hard as they have been, as we embark of this rebuilding phase.”
The Thirty Players Short-Listed following the Camp
Lefébre Rademan
Nicholé Taljaard
Owethu Ngubane
Rolene Streutker
Kamogelo Maseko
Sian Moore
Tinita van Dyk
Muhluri Hlatshwayo
Elmeré van der Berg
Nomfundo Mngomezulu
Ine-Marí Venter
Khanyisa Chawane
Refiloe Nketsa
Jeanté Strydom
Lungile Mthembu
Shannen Bartlett
Bianca de Wee
Amber Coraizin
Tarle Mathe
Nicola Smith
Jamie van Wyk
Boitumelo Mahloko
Ané Retief
Karla Pretorius
Nozipho Ntshangase
Martiné Jordaan
Nonsikelelo Mazibuko
Noluthando Maliehe
Alice Kennon
Milla Coetzee
Photo Caption: “We felt that we need(ed) to wait for the appointment of the head coach before a team of fifteen can be finalised and announced,“ Netball South Africa President, Cecilia Molokwane has announced. Image: Supplied
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