The sharp-shooters from Colac’s two Western Region State League teams will have their final chance to earn votes for the competition’s three top individual awards. Colac Tigers teenage tower Rebecca Scott and Colac District’s goal machine Errin Schaeffer are both in contention for the league’s Most Valuable Player, Emma McVilly Coaches Most [...]

A trademark out-of-nowhere onslaught has catapulted Colac District’s state league team to a decisive victory against top-four counterpart Warrnambool Netball Club. The defending champion proved it was far from a fading force in the Warrnambool-based competition by hitting top gear during a third-quarter explosion at The Arc on Thursday night. [...]

South Colac hopes it has appointed the club’s first A Grade netball premiership coach. Roos officials have installed respected goal-ring stalwart Janelle Bond in the top job as the club steels itself for another run at a breakthrough title in 2010. Bond will take [...]

Colac District’s western region state league netball team has added Apollo Bay goal ace Kath Speirs to its roster as a late replacement for defender Nadine McNamara. Coach Leah Ousey said a nagging hip injury had forced South Colac’s McNamara to withdraw from the Warrnambool-based tournament [...]

Kevin Van Dueren says he will not coach Lorne’s A Grade netball team this season. His reason for giving up the job? “There’s no team to coach.” The usually upbeat Van Dueren painted a grim picture of Lorne’s netball program when The Colac Herald [...]

Irrewarra-Beeac has anointed the heir apparent to Errin Schaeffer’s goal shooter spot. The Bombers installed former B Grade goaler Casey Johnstone as Schaeffer’s replacement after the goal machine signed with her new Bellarine Netball League club Newcomb. The 19-year-old Johnstone will be the centrepiece of a new-look offensive triangle, featuring [...]

An opportunity to guide a bunch of wide-eyed teenagers through their first year of A Grade netball has prompted coach Jenny Fish to re-sign at Western Eagles. The 35-year-old will play a limited on-court role this season as she is expecting her fourth child later this month. [...]

Colac Tigers netballers Emma McKie and Rebecca Scott will proudly fly their club’s black and yellow flag in this year’s Victorian 19-and-under state team. The Tigers’ twin towers are two country-born faces amongst a final 12-player squad made up predominately of metropolitan-based teenagers. McKie and Scott will get [...]

It seems Colac district’s two western region state league netball teams have agreed to let an ultimate inter-city grudge match wait until the tournament’s finals. Colac district team coach Leah Ousey and Colac Tigers leader Courtney Gibson were both reluctant to buy into the inherent rivalry between the teams ahead [...]

Colac district netball’s coaching merry-go-round has started spinning, with three A Grade clubs signalling their intentions for next season.  Last year’s finalists Simpson, Alvie and Colac Imperials have all re-signed their top-grade coaches for 2010.   Pregnant Cats coach Bree McKenzie will stay on in a non-playing capacity this season while the Tigers’ Kaylene Jones and [...]