USA Netball Team Trains at Pompey Park
The United States of America Netball Association’s 21 and Under Women’s Netball Team will be training at Pompey Park Recreation Center, 1101 NW 2nd Street, Delray Beach, from July 11th through the 15th. On July 12th the public is invited to attend when the USA team takes on the Wales, England Club team at 3:30 pm in an exhibition game also at Pompey Park.
The USA National Team will be competing in the 2009 world Youth Netball Championship in Rarotonga, Cook Island from August 11th through August 18th.
The invention of Netball was inadvertently aided by James Naismith who invented basketball in 1891. In 1895 Naismith sent a copy of his basketball rules to a sports teacher in New Orleans, Clara Baer.
Baer interpreted Naismith's drawings of the court and players as meaning that players could not leave certain areas. Baer's interpretation of the game became Women's basketball in 1899.
Women's basketball was taken to Britain and the empire where the game transformed into a passing no dribbling game called Netball. It has grown to be the most popular women’s team sport in the world.
For additional information, please contact Sonia Rodney with the Netball Association, at (561) 738-3174 or email Sonia at netballusa@aol.com.
