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WELCOME TO GRASSHOPPER NETBALL CLUB
Our senior teams regularly train on Wednesdays at The Winstanley School, Kingsway North, Braunstone, LE3 3BD, Brockington College, Enderby and Soar Valley College, Gleneagles Avenue, Thurmaston from 8.00-9.30 pm and we regularly compete in the Leicester Netball League on Tuesdays (5 teams) and the East Midlands Regional League on Sundays (2 teams). We affiliate to England Netball and have gained their CAPS Silver Award and Sport England Clubmark. Our junior teams train on Thursdays at Soar Valley from either 6:30 - 7:30 (Teams 4, 5 & 6) and 7:30 - 8:30 (Teams 1, 2 & 3), but when the Leicester Netball Youth League starts, the youth teams do not train, as Soar Valley is used for these competitive matches; our youth players then receive coaching and guidance in a competitive setting from the Head Coach and/or their Team Manager. |
We take players of all abilities and will develop them onwards into whichever pathway is right for them. We are very proud to announce that in the 2018-19 season, our Club won the England Netball’s regional Goalden Globe award: “Outstanding Netball Club 2019”. During this season (2019-2020), in November 2019, we were finalists in the Blaby District Council ‘Team of the Year’ award. We didn’t win, but we were ‘Highly Commended’ for our contribution to local women’s sport. In January 2020, we were finalists in the ‘Leicester Mercury Sports Awards’ – in the ‘Club of the Year’ category. We didn’t win, but received much local recognition for our outstanding contribution to women’s sport. Congratulations and thanks must go to all our fabulous club members and committee members who play their part in us gaining these accolades. It is evidence that ‘the team works’!
We take the health and well-being of all our Club members very seriously, which is why our coaches and key personnel have attended and learned from the MIND 'Mental Health in Sport' course and for anyone who is struggling in any way at all, please speak to one of our 2 Safeguarding Officers (Andy Scigliano or Kathy Cox), or alternatively, please go to the Mind website link: www.mind.org.uk/information-support/helplines/ They have lots of useful help sheets and fact sheets.
Our Grasshopper 1 Regional team plays in the East Midlands Regional League Division 2 on Sundays at the University of Loughborough. This team is currently sponsored by Chaperone K9.
We take the health and well-being of all our Club members very seriously, which is why our coaches and key personnel have attended and learned from the MIND 'Mental Health in Sport' course and for anyone who is struggling in any way at all, please speak to one of our 2 Safeguarding Officers (Andy Scigliano or Kathy Cox), or alternatively, please go to the Mind website link: www.mind.org.uk/information-support/helplines/ They have lots of useful help sheets and fact sheets.
Our Grasshopper 1 Regional team plays in the East Midlands Regional League Division 2 on Sundays at the University of Loughborough. This team is currently sponsored by Chaperone K9.