Netball Switzerland

Swiss Netball

Sport	Netball
Jurisdiction	National
Abbreviation	NCH
Founded	2008
Headquarters	Geneva
President	Emma Connolly
Official website
www.swissnetball.ch

Netball Switzerland was founded in 2009 by a group of volunteers to promote the game of Netball within Switzerland. Netball Switzerland changed its name to Swiss Netball and joined the INF as a full member (International Netball Federation)in 2011. Switzerland was ranked on the INF World rankings - www.netball.org.

Development

The Under 17 team first represented Switzerland at the European Netball championships in 2010. The staff driving elite level netball programme launched the Cadre d'Espoir in 2011-12 with the aim of creating a player performance pathway.

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  2010 Under 17 Netball team and Coaches
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  2011 Under 17 Netball team and Coaches
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  2012 Under 17 Netball team and Coaches

Year	Location	Captain
2010	Belfast	Kate Garden
2011	Dublin	Kate Garden
2012	Glasgow	Isabelle Turney (Co-C) and Emma Coulsen (Co-C)
2013	Malta	Georgia- May Gabb (Co-C) and Lauren Snyder (Co-C)
2014	Worcester	Oriane Calmy (C) and Sarah Irwin (VC)
2015	Hull	Oriane Calmy (C) and Pasqualina Vonlanthen Di Nenna (VC)
2016	Gibraltar	Grace Beesley (C) and Elsa Grand d'Hauteville (VC)
2017	Belfast	Grace Beesley (C) and Ruby Gribben (VC)
2018	Dublin	Ruby Gribben (C) and Agathe Grand d'Hauteville (VC)

Juniors

Swiss Netball is dedicated to developing netball both in public schools in Switzerland through the Prête-pour-net initiative. Swiss Netball supports the development of competitions in schools and clubs as well as supporting the start up process for new clubs.

Seniors

The Swiss Netball Nationalkader/Cadre national was established in 2012. A squad of 15 represented Switzerland at Netball Europe World Ranking Tournament in Gibraltar, May 2012. Switzerland achieved World Ranking at the tournament alongside Republic of Ireland, Israel, Malta and Gibraltar. In May 2013 the team represented Switzerland at the Netball Europe Open Championships in Aberdeen. Switzerland won the Silver Medal in the Development Section of the Championships and Player of the Tournament.

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  2012 Swiss National Team

Year	Team	Captain
2012	Seniors	Andrea McKellar
2013	Seniors	Mollie Brodie and Charlotte Spelzini
2014	Seniors	Mollie Brodie (C) and Claudia Almer (VC)
2015	Seniors	Claudia Almer (C) and Helen Stevens (VC)

Annual Tournament

The first annual Netball Switzerland tournament took place in May at International School of Lausanne (ISL). It has grown from four local teams in 2008 to two tournaments, one in May for Junior's and one later in the year called " The Peppermill Challenge" for Seniors.

Year	Event	Winners
2008	Seniors	Gin
2009	Seniors	Gin
2010	Seniors	Lancy
2011	Seniors	Lancy
2012	Seniors	Zurich
2013	Seniors	Zurich
2014	Seniors	Zurich
2015	Seniors	Zurich

External links

• Official website