NATIONAL NETBALL FESTIVAL 2025
Catering
Changing Rooms and Toilets
Court 2
Principal’s Welcome
I would like to extend a very warm welcome to our fourth annual Netball Festival here at St Joseph’s College. Each year the event is getting bigger with teams traveling from across the UK and abroad to compete.
Netball is one of our three performance sports for girls at St Jo’s, sitting proudly alongside cricket and football. If you are interested in finding out more please visit stjos.co.uk or contact admissions@stjos.co.uk.
I would like to thank the visiting teams attending and wish everyone an enjoyable and successful festival. We are most grateful to our sponsors and to the College staff who have helped organise this event, in particular Marira Lutua, Head of Netball.
I hope you enjoy a fabulous day of topquality competitive netball here on our beautiful campus.
Mrs D Clarke Principal
THE RULES
All games will be played in accordance with England Netball rules and St Joseph’s College tournament rules. All teams and umpires must register by 9.30am, with a coaches’ briefing at 9.30am. Matches will begin at 10.00am.
Squad Members
As per England Netball rules, each squad may have a maximum of 12 players. Players may only play for one team throughout the tournament. Any team fielding a borrowed player will be disqualified. We will operate rolling substitutions for the day and would ask coaches to ensure that these substitutions are made away from the ball, i.e. not interfering with play, a player may not enter the court until the player has exited.
Officials/ Umpires/ Coaching Teams
The team bench must be at their defending end at the start of the game, and to the right of the post, making sure there is enough space for the umpire. Each team is allowed a maximum of two/three members of staff on their team bench. All other members must be situated outside of the playing area. Each team is expected to provide a scorer for the day, who must stand with the opposition scorer on the vacant court 2 during the game. Scorecards will be collected at the end of the game and taken to the information table.
Entering teams are expected to provide their own neutral umpires at C grade or above (unless notified beforehand), these umpires will not be umpiring their own team’s games and will be expected to be separate from their team throughout the day.
Spectators Scoring System
All spectators must remain on the outside of the playing area at all times.
Points will be awarded as follows:
5 points for a win
3 points for a draw
1 point to the losing team if they score 50% or more of the opponent's score
0 points to the losing team if they score less than 50% of the opponent’s score
In the event of a tie on points at the end of a section, goal difference will decide the final placings, in the event that this is also tied it will go to goals scored.
At the end of the group stages the groups will split into a Cup and Plate section.
In the event of a draw during the final stages there will be extra time of two minutes each way followed by golden goal in the event of a further draw.
MEET THE FIRST TEAM
Name Position
Grace Bestley WD,C
Amy Brown WD,GD
Emma Brown C,WA
Daisy Ditcham GS,GA
Nyah Gaskin-Barber GD,GK Captain
Amy Hoffges GK,DG,WD
Emily Lander C,WA,GA
Freya Milner-Moore GA,WA,GS Co-Captains
Florence Orrin GK,GD,WD
Gabrielle Turner WA,WD,C Co-Captains
Training Partners
Samantha Blaydon WD,WA,C Training Partner
Maya Edwards WA,C,WD Training Partner
THE DRAW
THE PROGRAMME
THE FINALS
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