History

3rd year undergraduate studying Geography and Education at Homerton. Also the President of the Women’s Blues committee.

Previous experience

I started netball when I was 8 and played county for 5 years. I trained in the England development squad and spent my year out in Australia teaching netball in the Nike sports camp there.

How’s the team looking?

We lost a lot of players at the end of last season and we’re hoping to end up with a squad of 24. So obviously we’re focussed heavily on recruitment. But luckily our defence remains intact, so we’ve got a solid platform to work off.

What’s changing this year?


We’ve lost the Varsity match twice in a row now, and Oxford have a strong returning side, so changes have had to be made. We’re training more as a squad, rather than 2 separate teams to encourage fighting for places. We’ve also got a new coach: former England player Jo Moxham, who’ll come once a week and importantly watch all our matches as well, so we’ll have some feedback. That didn’t happen last year.

Typical week

Our training is centred around our matches on Wednesdays. We train 4 times a week in different locations. But without a university sports centre it sometimes drives me mad, as we’re constantly trying to find new venues to train at.

Inside track on Oxford

Oxford hurt us last year with with their goal shooter: she’s incredibly tall and her conversion rate is impressive, we’re going to have to work out a way to edge her out of the game. Our whole team is fiercely competitive, and losing twice consecutively has hurt. We’ve got the skill to match Oxford, we just need to sort out our tactics and attitude. We won’t lose this year.

Trials are Sunday 7 October at Trinity Old Fields at 10am.