Claudia Bowyer in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Bridget Lavers in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Mae Grant in action at Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Claudia Bowyer in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Brooke Gay in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Claire Lindbeck in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Claire Lindbeck in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Alana Bowyer in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Claudia Bowyer in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Mae Grant in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Mae Grant in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Mae Grant in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Mae Grant in action at the Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival. Photos: Kim Pham.
Queanbeyan under-11s representative squad. Photos: Kim Pham
Queanbeyan under-12s representative squad. Photos: Kim Pham
Queanbeyan under-13s representative squad. Photos: Kim Pham
Queanbeyan under-14s representative squad. Photos: Kim Pham
Queanbeyan under-15s representative squad. Photos: Kim Pham
Queanbeyan under-17s representative squad. Photos: Kim Pham
QUEANBEYAN Netball’s Kylie Maxwell has hailed last weekend’s representative carnival as a major success.
For the Age's photo gallery of last Sunday's Queanbeyan Netball Junior Representative Carnival, see above.
The carnival, which attracted 45 representative teams from across regional NSW, Queanbeyan and Canberra and saw more than 700 players, coaches, officials and spectators crowding the Thornton Road Netball Courts.
Sunday’s tournament marked the first time in 15 years Queanbeyan has hosted a junior representative carnival and Maxwell said the experience had been overwhelming positive.
“Considering we had more than 170 games played on the day it was a bit of a shuffle to fit everyone in but everything went very smoothly and we received a lot of positive feedback,” she said.
“All of the other associations involved were very happy with how things went and there was just a great buzz up at the courts on the day.
“It was a great way to highlight netball in Queanbeyan and we’ll definitely be looking to do it again next year.”
The carnival marked the start of the NSW junior representative season which will now build toward the State Age Championships in Sydney in June/July.
Queanbeyan teams in general performed strongly at the event with the association’s under-11s and under-14s outfits finishing runners up in their respective age grades.
Maxwell highlighted the effort of the under-11s as a particularly encouraging sign with this year marking the first time in a number of years Queanbeyan has fielded such a young development side.
“All the other teams had been training prior to Christmas and then again over the past month where the under-11s only got together about three weeks ago,” she said.
“For them to finish as runners up after only having about five training sessions together, that was a really great achievement.”
Queanbeyan’s representative program will now shift focus to the next major carnival to be held in Penrith later this month.
