Who's behind playnetball.com?

Emma Williams is an Aussie who apparently enjoys living in England!! Having been here for over 6 years now, she’s finally worked out that the trick to getting through the winters is to find a pub with a log fire! But even on those cold winter nights one thing she can’t live without is her netball… She has a long and extensive sports history and wont bore you with all the minor details on this website. However, she’s been involved in netball for over 17 years including representative levels in Australia and has just been chosen to represent England for Indoor Netball touring South Africa in March 2010. She has qualifications for umpiring and refereeing in netball and touch rugby, loves triathlons and basically doing anything outdoors that she can. She also has several years of sports management experience behind her and is committed to making your playnetball.com experience the best that it can be, on and off the courts.

Steve doesn't quite have the same sporting history as Emma. And whilst he'd like to blame it on severely inclement weather and a lack of sporting facilities in the Welsh valleys it's probably got more to do with him just being rubbish! Steve is responsible for doing all the boring stuff behind the scenes and loves it when stuff works as planned. He's been involved with running sporting leagues and competitions for what seems like forever! He makes sure that we have a venue, a website, equipment, first aid, teams to play against, and (almost most importantly) a pub to go to afterwards. Steve also plays for the mighty mighty mighty mighty PYTHONS.

Cheree is an Aussie who’s lived in England for 7 years. A bit of a sports nut she started out at a young age playing Vigoro (a dying form of ladies cricket played in Australia with an odd shaped bat), indoor cricket and beach volleyball. Unlike most Aussie girls she was a late bloomer to netball and only started playing at the age of 20. That hasn’t stopped her from becoming thoroughly addicted over the last 10 years and she always seems to be organising a team, umpires or something else netball related. Cheree has been umpiring and Site Managing around London for the past 7 years so although a new addition to Playnetball she will be a familiar face to some. Unfortunately a recent knee injury is keeping her off the court but she’ll be around to make sure games are on time and your netball experience is an enjoyable one!

Rob is a Kiwi who has been living in the UK for 3 years and he works as a primary school teacher in East London. Rob looks forward to the regular holidays that teachers receive and enjoys spending these somewhere in Europe, either hiking, cycling, skiing or just sitting on a beach. Rob has been involved in netball (both indoor and outdoor) for the past 14 years and has been an umpire for about 7 years. Like Emma, he has also been selected to represent England for Indoor Netball touring South Africa in March 2010. Rob plays for the Slam Drunks on Tuesday nights.

Tegan has only recently arrived in the UK to join all those other Aussie PE teachers on a working holiday here in London and is attempting to travel at every possible opportunity. She has been involved in netball for 14 years in various roles, playing at different representative levels, coaching numerous teams, umpiring, and administrative duties for her local association. Whilst she enjoys many other sports including touch footy and ultimate Frisbee, netball will always be her main passion. Tegan was planning on playing socially in the league on Tuesday nights for MNA Party Stars but has somehow managed to find herself involved in the organisation of yet another netball competition…she just can’t help herself.