Club News

Join Netball Victoria for our monthly Online Educational Sessions, designed to empower and support paid and volunteer administrators at clubs, associations and leagues, with practical knowledge and resources. These sessions aim to create a thriving, informed community of administrators and office bearers who are equipped to grow and sustain their netball programs. 

Please complete the form to register for the third of these interactive online sessions on Monday 7 April 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Get in early and secure your spot for our term two school holidays Train Like a Vixen clinics. Perfect for netballers aged 9-15 and teams.

Join Netball Victoria for our monthly Online Educational Sessions, designed to empower and support paid and volunteer administrators at clubs, associations and leagues, with practical knowledge and resources. These sessions aim to create a thriving, informed community of administrators and office bearers who are equipped to grow and sustain their netball programs. 

Please complete the form to register for the third of these interactive online sessions on Monday 7 April 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Introducing the new and refreshed components of the Net Program including session content and delivery approach. 

Webinar to be presented Tuesday 11 March - 8:00pm - 8:45pm

Opportunity for Associations, Clubs and Schools to learn what the purpose of Woolworths NetSetGo is and what benefits an organisation delivering the program.
 
Webinar to be presented Monday 17 March - 8:30pm - 9:00pm

Targeted for Coaches and Delivery Leads to learn the approach in delivering the Net Program including the coaching method, group management and active feedback particularly for the Mini Netball Game. Webinar to be presented Monday 10th March 7:30pm – 8:00pm.

Why become a Woolworths NetSetGo Centre in 2025?
•	The opportunity to increase membership and revenue at your club or association.
•	Training opportunities for coaches and volunteers.
•	The ability to develop links with local schools and community groups
•	Access to coaching resources, session plans, marketing materials and coordinator manuals
•	The ability to introduce participants to an established junior netball program.
•	Flexibility regarding the structure and timeframes for delivery.
•	Netball Victoria will assist in the administration and the promotion of your Woolworths NetSetGo program.
•	A tool to recruit girls and boys, parents and volunteers.
•	Access to a Marketing Toolkit

Get in early and secure your spot for our term two school holidays Train Like a Vixen clinics. Perfect for netballers aged 9-15 and teams.

Come & Play Day is back for 2025! The national campaign we all know and love is about celebrating Woolworths NetSetGo and encouraging new participants to give netball a go! 

Come & Play Day 2025 will be held on Saturday 15, February. Register your Come and Play day & go into the draw to win a $50 voucher for our WWNSG online store.

Why become a Centre?
•	The opportunity to increase membership and revenue at your club or association
•	Training opportunities for coaches and volunteers
•	The ability to develop links with local schools and community groups
•	Access to coaching resources, session plans, marketing materials and coordinator manuals
•	The ability to introduce participants to an established junior netball program
•	Flexibility regarding the structure and timeframes for delivery
•	Netball Victoria will assist in the administration and the promotion of your Woolworths NetSetGo program
•	A tool to recruit girls and boys, parents and volunteers
•	Access to a Marketing Toolkit

A series of online Netball Connect sessions have been scheduled for Club Administrators. These sessions provide an excellent opportunity to refresh your existing knowledge, explore new functionalities, and stay updated on processes that will enhance your administrative capabilities and streamline operations. 

A series of online Netball Connect sessions have been scheduled for Club Administrators. These sessions provide an excellent opportunity to refresh your existing knowledge, explore new functionalities, and stay updated on processes that will enhance your administrative capabilities and streamline operations. 

Netball Australia will be running a series of online workshops that will breakdown Woolworths NetSetGo. 

Why become a Centre?
•	The opportunity to increase membership and revenue at your club or association
•	Training opportunities for coaches and volunteers
•	The ability to develop links with local schools and community groups
•	Access to coaching resources, session plans, marketing materials and coordinator manuals
•	The ability to introduce participants to an established junior netball program
•	Flexibility regarding the structure and timeframes for delivery
•	Netball Victoria will assist in the administration and the promotion of your Woolworths NetSetGo program
•	A tool to recruit girls and boys, parents and volunteers
•	Access to a Marketing Toolkit

Netball Australia are thrilled to release a free course outlining the Netball Australia Safeguarding Children & Young People Course. This course will be integrated in to the Foundation Umpire Course and Foundation Coach Course as well as becoming part a mandatory part of the re-accreditation pathway, meaning all coaches and umpires must complete the course every four years to maintain their accreditation. It is highly recommended that all coaches, umpires, officials and volunteers complete the course.

With many teams planning ahead for 2025 and conducting trials, make sure you coaches and selectors are educated in the principles of team selection with this free course from Netball Australia.

Let your local schools know that the 2025 School Championships dates and locations are live. Schools can now start to register their teams!

Looking to upskill your umpires ahead of the 2025 season? Netball Victoria will support you to host an Umpires in the Field workshop to provide further education and development for your umpires.

Why become a Centre?
•	The opportunity to increase membership and revenue at your club or association.
•	Training opportunities for coaches and volunteers.
•	The ability to develop links with local schools and community groups
•	Access to coaching resources, session plans, marketing materials and coordinator manuals
•	The ability to introduce participants to an established junior netball program.
•	Flexibility regarding the structure and timeframes for delivery.
•	Netball Victoria will assist in the administration and the promotion of your Woolworths NetSetGo program.
•	A tool to recruit girls and boys, parents and volunteers.
•	Access to a Marketing Toolkit

Streamline your Netball club's operations with Xero integration and Netball Connect's Website solution:

- Live Demonstrations
- Live Q&A Session
- Learn how to activate Xero integration & website solution. 

If you want to know more about how these features work, World Sport Action is hosting a Webinar which will provide an overview of each of the features with a Q&A session following.

Webinar Details - Online, Thursday 5th December
Websites - 6:30pm - 7:00pm
Xero - 7:00pm - 7:30pm

The Netball Victoria Community Awards celebrate the significant achievements of individuals and groups who have contributed to the sport of netball in Victoria throughout the year.

If you know someone worthy of an award, nominate them today!

Netball Victoria is a proud diverse and inclusive organisation and we’re reaching out to our netball community to invite you to have your say! You can complete the survey yourself and/or share the Pride in Sport Index survey with your netball community!
 
This is a national survey that allows us to assess and benchmark our progress in inclusion of people with diverse sexualities and genders, in sport across Australia.  Regardless of how you personally identify, we encourage you to participate in this survey. 
  
Having your say will enable us to not only gauge the visibility of our inclusion initiatives in this area of diversity and inclusion but will also enable us to understand the views of those who do not identity as LGBTQ+, as well as the experiences of those who are of diverse sexuality and/or gender. Survey responses go directly to Pride in Sport and anonymous responses are provided to Netball Victoria.

Netball Assist provides a range of flexible administrative services designed to support our affiliated associations and clubs. Netball Victoria’s skilled administrative workforce can provide services relating to Netball Connect, general administrative activities, and specialist administrative tasks through our admin and specialty programs.

Learn how you can engage with your community. This free course on Netball Learning helps you identify key stakeholders, how to support them and keep them coming back.

The Woolworths NetSetGO program will undergo a refresh and rebrand ahead of the 2025 season. This includes a refreshed NET Tier and new Participant Pack. As a result of these changes, Netball Victoria will open registrations for the NetSetGO Membership on Sunday 1 December 2024, to align with other states & Netball Australia. 

Please keep an eye out for webinars that will be occurring late November 2024 through to late January 2025 around these changes.

Netball Victoria will be hosting a Netball Connect registration refresher and Q&A for associations on Tuesday 22 October from 6 - 7pm. The refresher will cover setting up competitions, opening registration forms and more, in preparation for 2025 competitions. 

The Australian Sports Commission has launched a new course called Dealing with the Moment: Anti-Racism in Community Sport. It is designed for community coaches, umpires, participants and volunteers involved in community sport and provides techniques and approaches on how to effectively prepare to be a safe space and how to intervene in the moment that an act of racism occurs during a match or event.

Get in early and secure your spot for our Term 3 school holidays Train Like a Vixen clinics! Perfect for netballers aged 5 - 17. 

We have introduced a new topic to our Umpires in the Field workshops. Check out what our 'Majors and Minors' workshop has to offer and how you can host a workshop. 

Netball Victoria have made it easier than ever to maintain and update your organisation information and key personnel data. Updating administrators, key personnel, committee members, T&C's, governance, affiliate finder and asset register information will now be completed directly in Netball Connect and replaces the previous process of updating the external CRM system. 

Maintaining your organisation data is a requirement of your affiliation with NV and ensures:
- NV can more efficiently and effectively communicate to relevant key personnel. 
- The security of your data and allows you to manage and limit access to current committee members only. 
- Relevant and current Affiliate Finder information ensures new participants can easily find where they can play.
- Asset Register information allows NV to negotiate the best insurance policies for our communities. 

Check out the new FREE course from Netball Australia for beginner coaches!

The Sport-Related Concussion Short Course is designed to provide individuals with the information they need when responding to, and managing concussion injuries, occurring as a result of participating in sports and sporting activities. Learn what a concussion is and how it occurs, how to recognise a concussion, and how to respond to a potential concussion, management and recovery.

Each Netball Victoria Association/Affiliate/League and or Club is required to nominate a duly authorised person and follow the below instructions to set themselves up with access to the ATO’s Online Services for Business to be able to complete the Income Tax Self-Assessment by the 31 October 2024.  From 1 July, ABN registered non-charitable NFPs need to lodge an annual NFP self-review return confirming income tax exemption status.

Netball Victoria's Love the Game Round is coming up this August 26 to September 1! Your local netball club can register to receive resources. These can be used to promote your club as a place that prioritises young people's wellbeing, invitations to events, education sessions, fun giveaways, merchandise and access to a gambling action plan for your club to implement.

Register to encourage friends, families and players to love the game, not the odds.

Let Netball Victoria know if you plan to run a Term 3 or Term 4 Woolworths NetSetGO (WWNSG) program in 2024 & how we can help you! 

The Woolworths Pick Fresh Play Fresh Netball Grants are back with $100,000 worth of grants available to 2024 Woolworths NetSetGO Centres. Entries close 23:59 Sunday 7 July so get your applications in and nominate your club for the $20,000 People's Choice Award! 🍏 

Netball Australia in conjunction with all states and territories is excited to announce that July will be Woolworths NetSetGO Month. Woolworths NetSetGO Month is a joining together of the netball community, to celebrate our littlest netballers and the people who support them participating in the Woolworths NetSetGO program.

Let us know what activities your Woolworths NetSetGO Centre will be running and how we can support you.

Are you interested in completing the Intermediate Coach Course? Express your interest to have a course near you!

The Workforce Menu outlines all the courses and opportunities Netball VIC has available for coaches and umpires. All clubs, associations and leagues are encouraged to host development opportunities to provide continuing learning and skill development for their coaches and umpires.

The Woolworths Pick Fresh Play Fresh Netball Grants are back with $100,000 worth of grants available to 2024 Woolworths NetSetGO Centres.
Apply now and nominate your club for the $20,000 People's Choice Award!
Enter now 🍏 

The survey seeks to understand how racism impacts community sport and what can be done to address it.
Are you 18 or older, is or has been involved in playing or the delivery of community sport. Whether you're an athlete, participant, parent of a child athlete, coach, volunteer, administrator, committee member or spectator, we need your voice!
Your feedback will assist sporting organisations to develop effective solutions to combat racism and foster inclusivity in sports.
Thank you for being a champion of equality and inclusion in sports! 🌟

Netball Australia in conjunction with all states and territories is excited to announce that July will be Woolworths NetSetGO Month. Woolworths NetSetGO Month is a joining together of the netball community, to celebrate our littlest netballers and the people who support them participating in the Woolworths NetSetGO program.

Let us know what activities your Woolworths NetSetGO Centre will be running and how we can support you.

2024 WorkSafe Victoria Club Safety Fund applications are now open! 

The Club Safety Fund has been established to provide financial assistance to country netball communities to improve the safety of their grounds and facilities. Netball Victoria and WorkSafe are working  together to build an environment that looks after the health, safety and wellbeing of our community.

Looking to take your netball teams to the next level? Join us in July at our Train Like a Vixen teams clinic. Develop the skills and connection within your team with specialist training and coaches!

"Sign up your netball club for a FREE Melbourne Vixens membership! Benefits include:
- Exclusive Club group 30% discount ticket offer for all 2024 home matches - minimum 8 tickets.
- Melbourne Vixens 10% discount ticket offer for all 2024 Vixens home matches
- Melbourne Vixens 10% membership discount
- Melbourne Vixens 10% off Melbourne Vixens merchandise
And more!

Looking to take your netball teams to the next level? Join us in July at our Train Like a Vixen teams clinic. Develop the skills and connection within your team with specialist training and coaches!

All NetSetGo Melbourne Vixens members are entitled to two (2) free bronze tickets to any two (2) Melbourne Vixens matches.

Netball Australia has released important updates to the concussion protocols for all levels of sport, including community netball. The new guidelines, which are designed to protect the health and well-being of all participants, are in alignment with the recent Australian Institute of Sport’s Concussion and Brain Health Position Statement. They have been prepared by Netball Australia’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Laura Lallenec in conjunction with Member Organisations, Suncorp Super Netball teams and the Australia Netball Players’ Association.

Netball Victoria are aligning themselves to these newest guidelines, effective immediately.


We are excited to announce that we will be holding an information session with Netball Australia’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr Laura Lallenec, to go through the new guidelines and understand their importance amongst our netball community. We would love to see as many people as possible join in to gain a greater understanding of such an important part of our sport. 
WHEN: Tuesday 14th May
TIME: 6:30pm-7:15pm
WHERE: Zoom

Netball Victoria and Vicsport are committed to helping create safe, supportive, and protective sporting environments for children and young people across Victoria. Vicsport has developed a FREE Online Education Program to assist and guide the Victorian sporting community, sport administrators, volunteers, coaches and officials through implementing and understanding the 11 Victorian Child Safe Standards.

Train like a Vixen these school holidays! Grow your netball skills and have fun at our Individual, Teams, Boys and Specialist clinics. Clinics are best suited to netballers aged 9-15 and are held at the State Netball Centre. We're also heading to Torquay with Train Like a Vixen on Tour on April 10 at Wurdi Baierr Stadium.

Netball Victoria needs coaches for our Sporting Schools programs happening across Term 2 & Term 3! Coaches must hold their Foundation Accreditation qualificiation. 

Want to learn more about what benefits being a Woolworths NetSetGO Centre can bring to junior participation in your organisation?

"The AIS recently launched the Australian Concussion Guidelines for Youth and Community Sport. They are easy to follow and contain step-by-step actions, with an emphasis on the health of the athlete and a return-to-play only after the recommended time.
Netball Victoria are aligning itself to the Guidelines moving forward. Netball Australia are currently finalising their Community & Youth Concussion Guidelines which will align with the AIS Guidelines as well. Netball Victoria will be adopting both guidelines and will communicate further once the Netball Australia document and information is released. "

NV's YAC recently launched resources to assist organisations when engaging Junior Committees.   These resources are a result of their hard work and collaboration and we believe this will inspire youth inclusion within netball clubs. Our aim is to support organisations in creating their own junior committees, which will empower, encourage and engage young people.  Involving youth in your committees ensures their voices are heard, gives them opportunity to advocate for themselves, and means they are included in creating positive change in your community.

The Sporting Club Grants Program provides funding for community sport and active recreation organisations across Victoria. Access to this funding helps grassroots clubs and organisations address barriers in participation, develop safe and sustainable practices and build social and active local communities.

Netball Victoria needs coaches for our Sporting Schools programs happening across Term 2 & Term 3! Coaches must hold their Foundation Accreditation qualificiation. 

Watch a recording of All-Australia Umpire Tim Marshall explain the new rule updates along with other downloadable resources.

Reminder: Registrations are open for 2024 Marie Little Shield

Want to run Woolworths NetSetGO in 2024? Register your club or association here!

Taking place on Saturday February 17, join us in encouraging new and existing NetSetGO'ers to find their nearest Woolworths NetSetGO centre, participate in a free trial of the program and register for the upcoming season. We encourage all NSG Centres to run a Come and Play session leading up to 17th Feburary. 

Find netball competitions near you with our Netball Finder! Enter your postcode to filter by location, use the "type" tab to filter by competition level and enter your date of birth to check eligibility  for your age group. Once finding a competition, register using your Netball Connect profile.

Upcoming Netball Victoria Community Clinics

Register your interest in NSG Centre training!

17th Jan: Held at Frankston 
19th Jan: Parkville  23rd Jan: Parkville 
23rd Jan Boys clinic 9-12 at Parkville

Register for a 2024 Umpire Tester Meeting. Everyone welcome to attend!

Want to learn to umpire ready for the 2024 season? Register to a workshop now

Update your NSG information to be showed on our Affiliate finder through this how to guide!

World Netball have released the 2024 Rules of Netball updates. Further detail and info sessions to be released soon