{"id":5261,"date":"2011-09-19T11:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=5261"},"modified":"2011-09-19T11:35:11","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T11:35:11","slug":"world-youth-netball-championships-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/09\/19\/world-youth-netball-championships-selection\/","title":{"rendered":"World Youth Netball Championships Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LAURA-MARSLEN-copy-200x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/LAURA-MARSLEN-copy-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"LAURA-MARSLEN-copy-200x300\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5262\" \/><\/a>The Australian 21\/U coach Carol Byers had one eye on the future when selecting a young team to compete against the world champion Australian Diamonds, New Zealand Silver Ferns, South Africa and Malawi in Perth next month.<br \/>\nWith the 2013 World Youth Netball Championships on the horizon, Byers has selected a 21\/U team with an average age of just over 18 years old.<br \/>\n\u201cThis series will provide a starting point in our preparation for the 2013 World Youth Netball Championships, it\u2019s our goal to expose our athletes to international netball who are still eligible for the tournament in two years time,\u201d Byers said.<br \/>\nThe 21\/U team will compete against the world\u2019s top two teams along with World Netball Championship quarter-finalists South Africa and Malawi in practice matches ahead of the Holden Netball Test Series fixture at the Burswood Dome on Sunday 23 October.<br \/>\n\u201cWe\u2019re exposing the world youth cup athletes to the different styles of play that the African teams offer,\u201d Byers said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity for these young athletes that haven\u2019t had any exposure to South Africa or Malawi, let alone the chance to play against the world champion Diamonds and the Silver Ferns.\u201d<br \/>\nThe 21\/U team will contest the four practice matches during the week leading up to Sunday 23 October. The Australia 21\/U squad for the 2013 World Youth Cup will be selected next year following the 21\/U National Championships.<br \/>\nAustralian 21\/U Team:<br \/>\nKelsey Browne (VIC), Courtney Bruce (WA), Kristina Brice (NSW), Paige Hadley (NSW), Cody Lange (SA), Laura Marslen (SA), Samantha Poolman (NSW), Kimberley Ravaillion (NSW), Keely Rodrigo (ACT), Amehlia Schmidt (SA), Kate Shimmin (SA), Gabi Simpson (NSW), Amy Sommerville (NSW)<br \/>\n* Maddy Proud (SA) and Micaela Wilson (VIC) were both unavailable for selection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian 21\/U coach Carol Byers had one eye on the future when selecting a young team to compete against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5262,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[1192,475,380],"class_list":["post-5261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-2013-world-youth-netball-championships","tag-netball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}