NETBALL
By ROBYN KENNY
The Forbes netball community will have a busy weekend ahead, when they will play the Club Forbes NetSetGo and Junior Gala Day on Sunday.
The day will be a celebrations of grassroots junior netballers from ages seven years to 12 years.
About two hundred boys and girls will start the day with the skills warm up, coached by former Australian Diamond Susan Pettitt at 9am.
Susan is now a regular for Forbes netball, and she brings her fun skills to start the day.
Susan is the leading junior netball coach in NSW and is always an extremely popular sight on the Forbes courts.
NNSW West/Central West Regional Manager Brooke Berg will join Susan and her team for the skills warm up.
The day has been fully funded by Club Forbes, which allows all Forbes boys and girls to enjoy the day with no costs involved.
Forbes will have around 100 junior players taking to the courts, with many trying netball for the very first time.
Teams will also be travelling from Young, Dubbo, Condobolin, Narromine, Ungarie, Orange Waratahs and Orange Life Studios.
No representative teams are able to enter the day, making it a full celebration of junior netball.
The Forbes Netball Association is the only association in the West/Central West region to run such a day.
The focus is on exercise, being part of a team, enjoying the outdoors, and just having fun with friends and making new friends, playing the great game of netball.
This is the third year Forbes NA has organised the junior day, which has seen it growing in numbers with team entries every year.
Many of these boys and girls do not have the opportunity to participate in a carnival, as the regional carnivals throughout the year focus on representative teams.
The program for the day will be; 9am till 10am Susan Pettitt’s skills warm up then at 10-30am the round robin of games will start and continue throughout the day.
Helpers are always needed to make this day a huge success, and volunteers are asked to sign up for any help in the canteen and barbecue.
The day would not be possible without the huge support from Club Forbes, and the Forbes association is extremely grateful for the support.
Woolworths NetSetGo presentations
The weekend will start on Saturday when the boys and girls playing Woolworths NetSetGo every Saturday will have their end of season presentations.
NetSetGo is played every Saturday morning at 9.30 till 10.30am, where boys and girls from five years to 10 years enjoy the fun and skills of learning to play netball.
The Woolworths NetSetGo Forbes sessions are growing in numbers every year.
The morning session could not be successful without the help of parents and grandparents, and the netball committee thank everyone who has helped to make the sessions such a great success.