THE USA SENIOR NETBALL SQUAD
The USA Senior squad will be
participating in the AFNA World
Netball Championship qualifiers in
St. Lucia July 22 - 28, 2010.
Click here
for more detail
and meet the squad.
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT.
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THE OFFICIAL IFNA NETBALL RULE
BOOK (Latest Edition) is now
available.
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So come on USA, let do our part to
support the bid by visiting
www.netballolympicbid.com and
sign up, along with the
thousands of others who have
already done so, to register your
support for netball being
played at the Olympics.
USANA Partners with Gilbert
Netballs
The USA
Netball Association (USANA) is
delighted to announce that it
has established a national ball
contract with Gilbert Netballs.
Gilbert Balls will be used at
all USANA-sponsored events over
the next four years.
USANA is
delighted to establish a
professional relationship with
Gilbert Balls. Gilbert’s
generous ball sponsorship of
both the World Youth Tournament
and recent World Championships
in New Zealand shows a deep
commitment to Netball. With the
growth of the sport in the USA,
it is imperative that we have
access to the highest standard
of equipment for use by our current and
prospective members. Gilbert Netball most certainly fits this
requirement, and as such, Gilbert
balls will
be in used at the USANA 2008
National Netball Championships in
Cumming, Georgia”
Richard Gray, Vice-President of
Gilbert Netball states “We have
worked with USANA over several
years and are excited that they
have now identified Gilbert
netballs to be the ball of
choice. We look forward to a
long and productive relationship
with USANA as Netball continues
to spread throughout the
American continent.”
Netball is considered the
most popular women’s team
sport in the world. Although
invented in the United States in
1891, it is considered a “new”
sport in its country of origin
yet is a high profile,
prime-time TV sport in the
United Kingdom, the Caribbean,
Asia, Australia and New Zealand.
It continues its rapid growth in
the United States, Africa and
Europe, as the strong lobby of
Olympic inclusion builds.
For
inquiries and purchase of
Gilbert Balls,
please send email to
Treasurer@usanetball.com .
USANA Partners with Sport
Court
The USA
Netball Association is delighted
to announce a 3-year sponsorship
of its web site by Connors Sport
Court. This renews the
relationship first established
between the two entities back in
2005 at the time of the World
Youth Netball Championships
where Sport Court supplied three
Netball floors for use at the
Championship Venue in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida.
Andrew Gettig, Vice- President,
International Sales, Connors
Sport Court stated “We are
delighted to renew our
relationship with the USA
Netball Association. They have
proved themselves to be a
forward-looking association and
have clearly identified that
Sport Court playing surfaces add
to the excitement, safety and
visual appeal of Netball. USA
Netball pioneered the use of the
surface at the World Youth
Netball Championships in 2005
and have clearly endorsed its
suitability for play at all
levels."
Carole Hokrein, Tournament
Director for World Youth 2005
and current USANA Executive
Member states “USANA fully
supports the use of Sport Court
floors. Its portability lends
itself ideally to the
requirements of an up-and-coming
sport in the USA. Add that to
the permanent Sport Court
flooring, and we have a surface
suitable for every level of
play. USA look
forward to a lasting, and
mutually rewarding, relationship
with Connors Sport Court”.
In conclusion SPORT COURT is an
ideal permanent and portable
surface for Netball.
Sportcourt has proven itself to
be a great multipurpose surface.
The portable version can be laid
in just a couple of hours and
taken up in less than 15 minutes
by a small group of individuals.
USANA is delighted to endorse
this sport flooring.
For
inquiries on Sport Court please
visit them at
www.sportcourt.com .
In addition, please
contact: Andrew Gettig,
Vice President, International
+1 801.978.7055 Direct
or
+1 801.978.7056 Fax.
World Netball
Rankings
Listed below is the
latest world rankings listed by IFNA on their
website
www.netball.org.
|
Ranking |
Team |
Played |
Weighted |
Points |
Rating |
|
1 |
Australia |
35 |
26 |
4515 |
174 |
|
2 |
New Zealand |
37 |
28 |
4547 |
162 |
|
3 |
England |
52 |
39 |
5823 |
149 |
|
4 |
Jamaica |
43 |
34 |
4475 |
132 |
|
5 |
Samoa |
19 |
14 |
1,603 |
115 |
|
6 |
Malawi |
21 |
17 |
1,935 |
114 |
|
7 |
South Africa |
35 |
25 |
2,707 |
108 |
|
8 |
Fiji |
19 |
14 |
1,505 |
108 |
|
9 |
Trinidad and Tobago |
27 |
23 |
2410 |
105 |
|
10 |
Cook Islands |
10 |
9 |
848 |
94 |
|
11 |
Papua New Guinea |
15 |
11 |
1,030 |
94 |
|
12 |
Barbados |
28 |
21 |
1,784 |
85 |
|
13 |
Scotland |
26 |
21 |
1,669 |
79 |
|
14 |
Singapore |
39 |
28 |
2,058 |
74 |
|
15 |
St Vincent & The Grenadines |
17 |
11 |
788 |
72 |
|
16 |
Wales |
27 |
20 |
1412 |
71 |
|
17 |
Sri Lanka |
14 |
11 |
695 |
63 |
|
18 |
Botswana |
13 |
12 |
741 |
62 |
|
19 |
Northern Ireland |
19 |
15 |
823 |
55 |
|
20 |
Malaysia |
11 |
9 |
416 |
46 |
|
21 |
Canada |
20 |
15 |
624 |
42 |
|
22 |
India |
8 |
4 |
69 |
17 |
This rankings system was developed
for IFNA by David Kendix.
The first list was published on 11
February 2008. The latest list has
been updated on 28th May 2009.
Teams
This ranking list relates to
senior teams of member countries
that are playing regular
international test matches.
Ranking and Rating
A rating is a measure of the
average performance of a team over
a series of matches. Each team
earns a certain number of points
from each international match.
Their rating is the total number
of points earned divided by the
number of matches played.
The team with the highest rating
is ranked first in the world. The
next highest rating is ranked
second and so on.
Weighting
Matches played a long time ago
are a poorer guide to current form
than more recent results.
Therefore past results are
weighted, giving a lower weighting
to earlier results.
For the purposes of this list,
matches played since July 2007
currently have a full weighting
(100%). Matches played in the two
previous years (July 2005-June
2007) have a weighting of 50%.
Earlier matches are not directly
included in the ratings at all.
Each July, the oldest year of
results will drop out of the
ratings and the weightings
redistributed. This is the one
annual occasion when the rankings
list could alter other than
through a match being played.
Points
The number of points earned by
a team for any match depends on
two factors.
1) The result (won, tied or
lost)
2) The opponent against whom
the result was achieved. The
higher an opponent’s rating the
more points are earned for beating
them
Rating Period
It is not meaningful for a team
to claim a world ranking if they
have only played a small number of
matches. As soon as a team has
played eight International test
matches over the rating period
(currently this means since July
2005), then they will have earned
an official world ranking.
If a team has played fewer than
eight matches, they will still
have a rating, but without a
corresponding ranking.
The following teams currently have
a rating in the system and could
become ranked once they have
played 8 matches.
Antigua & Barbuda
Hong Kong
Maldives
Pakistan
St Kitts & Nevis
St Lucia
Thailand
USA
Vanuatu
Any country that is playing
international test matches should
contact
ifna@netball.org
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