International Netball

Netball

Netball is a team sport that traces its roots to basketball, which explains why its rules are related. Netball was originally known as "women's basketball" and developed in the United States, and, while basically unknown in its homeland, it is the pre-eminent women's team sport (both as a spectator and participant sport) in Australia and New Zealand and is popular in Jamaica, South Africa, Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom, and various other Commonwealth countries. When James Naismith devised basketball in 1891 for his students in the School for Christian Workers (later called the YMCA), female teachers got curious and started to formulate a version for girls. The outfits of women back in the day hindered them from effectively executing important basketball moves such as running and dribbling, so the game had to be modified to accommodate these restrictions. Later, the name "netball" was adopted as women were beginning to play basketball professionally, and the game started to attract male players.

Netball is a particularly fast and highly skilled sport. It was created by an American basketball coach attempting to improve the skills of basketball. He worked at Luton Teachers College in England where he introduced the sport to many of the graduating teachers. These teachers gained positions in schools all over England bringing this new and exciting game with them. Some of these teachers travelled the world teaching Netball in other countries. Netball is now played predominantly by women throughout the world hince international netball. Though today netball is a fast and growing sport internationally it's played particularly in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Netball is the world's most popular team game for women, and is played international, in over 70 countries by over 7 million people. Within the Commonwealth games netball has a higher nubmer of active participants than any other sport.

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