COFFS Harbour Netball Association’s under 17s are the North Coast champions, after taking out the Division 3 title at the Netball NSW Regional League Championships in Port Macquarie.

The Netball NSW Regional League Championships sees each association on the North Coast compete against the region’s best netballers to win the title of Regional Champions.

Coffs Harbour Netball Association was well represented in Port Macquarie, entering an opens team and under 17s team.

Coffs Harbour Netball Association president Tanya Slaviero said it was a great effort from the two teams at Port Macquarie, especially the under 17s who had shown great improvement.

“Both teams played extremely well and the opens came away with third, and I am happy to announce that our U17s took out the Division 3 title,” she said.

“The under 17s went into their third carnival of the year having not won a game in their first carnival.

“They really improved and really held themselves together and had a sensational tournament.

“They came together really well as a team, and we only had two former rep players and the rest have only started playing rep this season, so they just came together really well on the day.”

Coffs Harbour Netball Association also had five players selected for the Mid North Coast team to take part in the Regional State Cup in Sydney in October.

Coffs Harbour Netball Association will be hosting their annual representative carnival at the Coffs Harbour Netball Courts on Sunday, 30 April.

Slaviero said the home carnival would prepare Coffs Harbour representative teams for the upcoming state titles.

“It’s preparation for the senior state titles in Newcastle on the June long weekend, and the junior state titles in early July in Sydney,” she said.

“We have teams in each age division, under 12s, 13s, and 14s at the juniors, and under 15s, 17s, and opens at seniors.”

By Aiden BURGESS