Happy Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day from all the NSW Swifts team. 

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Swifts Insider

Swifts Insider is the New South Wales Swifts official magazine. Click on this link and it will take you to where you can get the latest issue. 

http://www.nswswifts.com.au/extra

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Kimberlee Green, Sharni Layton and Caitlin Thwaites after they have been selected in the 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games Netball Team. 

Three Swifts players are named in the Australian Commonwealth Games Team

Australian Commonwealth Games Netball Team

Exciting news for three NSW Swifts players, Kimberlee Green, Sharni Layton and Caitlin Thwaites have been selected in the 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games Netball Team. The three girls have worked extremely hard over the past years and have finally achieved their goal. Wright is very pleased with his players, and it is also a very proud moment for the club itself. 

Unfortunately 2013 Australian Diamonds squad member Susan Pratley has missed out on selection in this team. "Im naturally disappointed for Susan, she has put in a huge amount of work into all aspects of her game during the off-season and that showed during her performance for us this year," said Wright, the current NSW Swifts coach.

 The girls returned back to Sydney on Wednesday 7th May to continue preparations for their Round 11 ANZ Championships game against the West Coast Fever on Monday night in Perth.

The Australian Commonwealth Games netball team will return to Canberra for a camp at the end of June before departing for a pre-game training camp in Manchester, England where the team will put the finishing touches on its preparations for Glasgow 2014. 

Australia opens its 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games campaign against Wales on Thursday 24th July before the remaining pool matches against England on the 26th July, Barbados on the 27th July, Trinidad and Tobago on the 28th July and South Africa on the 30th July.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Netball Team includes;

Laura Geitz (Queensland) - Captain

Bianca Chatfield (Victoria) - Vice-captain

Caitlin Bassett (Western Australia)

Tegan Caldwell (Victoria)

Julie Corletto (Victoria)

Kimberlee Green (New South Wales)

Renae Hallinan (Victoria)

Sharni Layton (Victoria)

Natalie Medhurst (South Australia)

Kimberley Ravaillion (New South Wales)

Madison Robinson (Victoria)

Caitlin Thwaites (Victoria)

NSW Swifts Facebook page

NSW Swifts encourages everyone to get involved and welcome the opinions of supporters on there official Facebook page.

https://www.facebook.com/NSWSwifts  

The link above is the official Facebook page of the NSW Swifts. They encourage there fans to support this page. They want there audience to be mindful of others, and keep there comments tasteful. :) They will how ever delete comments that are deemed offensive or which contain unacceptable language. They have the latest game updates and photographs of the women playing.

Rob Wright wants regular Anzac Day clash

New South Wales Swifts Coach Rob Wright still cherishes his father, as his father risked his life in battle of World War 2. 

Anzac day is an emotional day for Wright and his family. Wrights father, Allan fought in New Guinea but passed away in the early 1990s when he was in university. Because of this Rob believes netball should follow the football codes and make an Anzac Day match a permanent part of the calendar. "You look at the football codes who have made it tradition, it's such a huge honour to play in this day", Wright said. "Canberra is a great place to have that game, and I'm hoping it's the start of a netball's own tradition", and because of this, this is the first year Rob Wright has called for a Anzac Day clash with the Southern Steel in Canberra, for the ANZ Championships. 

Wright believes Anzac Day is something which should be honoured by everyone, and it is really important that netball acknowledges this.

Sharni Layton strongly agrees with her coach, as she has also a rich history in the armed services. Sharni gets goosebumps thinking about it, because both of her great grandparents were in the war, and her grandpa was in World War 2.

Her family's strength to have gotten through those really tough situations is what inspires her, she believes they have passed those qualities down. "I believe  that's what's contributed to me playing elite level sport, because you need a certain level of dedication and strength to get there" Sharni said. 

Photo from Sydney Morning Herald

Rob Wright talking to his players in the break, at the Anzac Day clash against the Southern Steel in Canberra, 2014.

Photo from Sydney Morning Herald

Anzac Commemoration at the NSW Swifts vs Southern Steel game at the AIS Arena

NSW Swifts partners

Swifts would like to thank:

Principal Partner: QBE 

Premier Partners: Sydney Swans, Telstra.

Major Partners: Sydney Olympic Park, NSWIS.

Team Partners: Cartridge World, The Sydney Boulevard Hotel, Skins, Victor, Australian National Preventative Health Agency, Winston Hills Mall, Nova 969, Imagination Graphics, The Athletes Foot, The edge in hair, Bosco Bear, Court Craft, ACPE.

Merchandising Partner: Coast 2 Coast. 

Official Charity Partner: The Kids' Cancer Project.

Proud Partner: Netball NSW.