Netball in Trinidad and Tobago

Netball in Trinidad and Tobago is a popular sport.

Trinidad and Tobago hosted 1979 Netball World Championships^[1]

The Trinidad and Tobago national netball team won 3rd place in the 1979 Netball World Championships,^[1] and 3rd place in the 1983 Netball World Championships.^[1]

As of January 2011, the women's national team was ranked eighth in the world.^[2]

Trinidad and Tobago Netball

The Trinidad and Tobago national netball team is known as the Calypso Girls named for the music that was born from that island nation has made history in the world of netball. The sport was started in the early 1900 after slavery to empower women in the country, at that time the first athletes were the children of the slave masters who had been privilege enough to afforded opportunity to form clubs like Malvern, Maple, Harvard and Queens Park. Then in the 1930s the children of slaves were the one playing the sport. The Calypso girls represented the island nations in international netball competition and was the first Trinidad team to garner national recognition. The Trinidad team competed at the first world netball championship in 1963. Trinidad's netball flourished in the mid1900s as the women that were marginalize started to explore the possibility of competing on the world stage. There were many women who contributed to the advancement of the sport. These women were unlike the American female sport stars were welcomed by their male counterparts in the area of sports. This led to the rapid growth of the sport. At that time there were no other sport that women competed in with the exception of lawn tennis. Women like Lystra Lewis, Jean Pierre, Antionette Gaskins, Ingrid Blackman and Club players like Jean Best and Phyllis Best. Made major contribution to the sport of netball, which is still played in the islands. Netball in Trinidad and Tobago is a sport that let the women of Trinidad of improve and develop in ways unimagined by the new government. This sport is the first sport that Trinidad and Tobago were able win its first world championship in 1979. The team consisted of the following ladies Ingrid Blackman, Angela Burke-Brown, Peggy Castanada, Heather Charleau, Cyrenia Charles, Marcia Dimsoy, Jennifer Nurse, Sherril Peters, Althea Thomas, Jennifer, Williams, Jean Pierre, and Veryl Prescod

Netball is a sport developed at about the same time as women basketball but remain with the basic rules of the old criteria. Netball is a sport played by two teams of seven players. It was introduced to England in the 1890s and requires the abilities to catch the ball, passing is extremely important in net ball. There are five types of passes they are: bounce passes, chest passes, flick passes, lob passes and shoulder passes other than that we have footwork and shooting. There is no dribbling to advance the ball in net ball it is based totally on the passing of the ball when players get into there shooting range they have 3 seconds to shoot the ball. The sport was first played in England in 1895 at a woman's college in Kent England. Madame Ostenburg's College for women. this was a physical training school for ladies Netball's popularity continued to grow, with the game being played in many British Commonwealth countries. The two iconic women who made this sport so readily accepted were Lystra Lewis and Eugenia Theodosia Pierre