My netball dream is...
Ardgowan School is a small rural school on the outskirts of Oamaru in North Otago. The school opened in 1903 and through most of its existence has had too small a roll to form its own netball team with players having to join one of the local netball clubs.
Student numbers increased significantly over the past five years and the idea of an Ardgowan Netball team was mooted.
With enthusiastic parents and staff we established a year 3/4 team last season and based on the success of that we decided we would continue with another year 3/4 team this year and aim for at least one Ardgowan team each season going forward.
As we are such a new team in our local competition we are very limited in training and game-day gear. Practice and match balls, a gear bag, drink bottle holder, training bibs and most importantly, uniforms.
The girls currently wear their school uniform at matches, however our local competition stipulates that all year 5 teams (and above) must wear proper netball uniforms and we would be grateful any contribution ANZ could make towards these, and other gear, to assist us for this current season and to enable us to be ready to go for the 2018 season.
The girls have already improved so much since beginning last year and they’re buzzing every week they get together to practice and on Saturday morning game days. Earlier this year we were privileged when members of the Southern Steel netball team came to Ardgowan School to hold a skills session with the children. They all took away some fantastic new skills and it amplified their enthusiasm, confidence and love of netball all the more! Here you can see a wee clip of Southern Steel WD Gina in action with some of the Ardgowan girls ;-)
https://www.facebook.com/SouthernSteelNetball/videos/10155183630679446/
The Ardgowan School motto embodies everything the players and coaches strive to achieve on the netball court, and we know with this in their hearts they will do each other, themselves and the school very proud:
Whaia te iti kahurangi
Be the best that you can be
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