Forbes Netball Open Representative team. Front: Abbey Kelly, Jordi Petty, Matiese Byrnes, Kate Payne, Phoebe Thomas. Back: Robyn Kenny (coach), Nat Hall, Kate French, Rel White, Emily Wilson, Tori Petty, Iesha Sinclair, Alice Lind (Primary Carer), Lisa Thomas (Manager).
Forbes Netball Association’s 2025 representative season will kick-off this weekend, when the FNA Open Representative team compete in the West/Central West Regional League competition.
The Forbes team includes; Matiese Byrnes, Kate French, Nat Hall, Phoebe Thomas, Kate Payne, Abbey Kelly, Iesha Sinclair, Emily Wilson, Tori-Leigh Petty, Jordi Petty, Alice Lind (withdrawn), Aurella White. Coach Robyn Kenny, Manager Lisa Thomas, Primary Carer Alice Lind.
The Regional League competition will be held at Orange PCYC over two days of 29 – 30 March. A West/Central West Regional League team will be selected from players aged 16-22, and will play in the Regional State Cup later in the year.
The Forbes team have been training since last year, working on their individual overall fitness, to ensure they are ready for the huge weekend of netball. The team started training together in February and have been meeting regularly each week, to bring together their teamwork and balls skills in high intensity training sessions.
This competition is the highest level of competition open ladies teams can compete in within the region, and the Forbes team is looking forward to playing extremely competitive games of netball over the two days All games will be 12 minute halves. The games start at 9am on Saturday, when Forbes will play Parkes, then Blayney 1, Dubbo 2, Blayney 2 and Mudgee 2. This will complete round one.
Round two will start on Saturday with return games against Parkes and Blayney 1. Sunday will kick off with games against Dubbo 2, Blayney 2 and Mudgee 2. A six team semi final series will be held on Sunday after the rounds, starting at 12:30 and the finals at 1:30. Goodluck to all players!