Inverness Netball Club prepare for new Highland and Moray League season

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00:00 So this season we have four teams entered into the Highlander Murray League and all

00:07 competitive teams looking to do well. There's 11 teams in total, so just trying to make

00:19 sure we're competitive in that avenue. So this season we've got the Highlander Murray

00:23 League, we've also got a team entered into the Scottish Cup, which has obviously competed

00:26 in teams all over Scotland, so it'll be the first time in roughly four or five years that

00:30 Inverness have entered a team into the Scottish Cup, so that's something new for us to look

00:33 towards and look forward to. We did really well last year, so last year we had three

00:37 teams in the Highlander Murray League. We came first and second out of our teams that

00:42 we entered there, so a really, really strong performance last year. At the moment we have

00:45 upwards of 50 members, which is quite incredible. We've got 40 members who play in the four

00:51 teams and we've got 10 recreational players in our new sessions that start up on a Thursday

00:55 night. In the Highlands it tends to be stronger at senior level. It's something that's not

00:59 massively prevalent in schools yet, but we are working really hard to change that. Inverness

01:04 level club themselves are obviously predominantly female clubs, so we're trying to bring that

01:09 into any schools where we've got teachers. We run an S1 to S4 session here on a Friday

01:15 night for that age group as well, so we're trying to really influence from as early an

01:18 age as possible to get girls in to get involved in the sport and avenue. The schools have

01:23 been really receptive to it. If any of the girls here are willing to take a session,

01:27 then it's completely well received from the schools. It's definitely a good sport in Inverness.

01:32 Since I've been in the club nearly 10 years now, I think I remember my first training

01:36 session, it's been about five people in total. So now that we're at 50, it's just quite incredible.

01:40 So, yes, it's grown massively over the last few years and continues to do so even now.

01:45 The four teams in the league this year coming first and second last year was a great achievement,

01:48 so for us if we can get any better than that, we'll be delighted. But our fourth team is

01:53 very new and just developing themselves, so really for them just get some competition,

01:57 get some games under their belt and doing as well as they can, we'll be delighted.

02:00 So we train, team training on a Wednesday night, all four teams can train together,

02:05 and then on a Thursday night is when we have our open sessions for anyone to come along,

02:08 whether you've played netball before or not at all. We have sessions on a Thursday night

02:12 that are for any newcomers or anyone that wants to potentially compete in a team for

02:17 next season so that's important to everyone.