Open Grade (19+) Intra-Zone Invitational Fixtures

Sunday 9th October 2016

hosted by Netball Wellington Centre
at Arena Manawatu, 61 Pascal Street, Palmerston North

This tournament is attended on an invitational basis extended to Open Grade (19+) representative teams affiliated to an existing netball centre within our Netball Central Zone.

We are excited to host this innaugural event and hope to attract some good competition from around our Zone!

Entry fee: $125 (includes GST) per team. 
Entities will be invoiced.
Each team must provide an accompanying umpire.
Games will be played between 9.00am (first round) and depending on team entries the event will finish by 3.00pm. 

Timing has been carefully considered to hopefully alleviate the need for overnight accommodation and keep incurred costs at a minimum.

If travelling to attend and wishing to request a later start time/early departure time please advise as soon as able and we shall do our best to accommodate in the draw.

Please find the Team Entry forms attached below in Excel and PDF format for easy access.

Teams are asked to indicate their inerest in attending as soon as able so we can get a solid gauge of interest.

Team Lists/Umpire details are then required to be completed in full and returned by Friday 23rd September.
Please be sure to include umpire name and qualifications to assist us with allocating umpires to games. 
If umpire names are unknown at the time of entry, please advise as soon as possible.  In the instance where a centre is struggling to provide an umpire please contact us and we shall try to assist where able.

Team Entry indication due as soon as able by Tuesday 6th September.
Team List/Umpire details due by Friday 23rd September.
Return to: Netball Wellington Centre, PO Box 14-845, Kilbirnie, Wellington
Email:       ndo@netballwellington.co.nz 
Fax:          04 387 8309 

Closer to the time information will be posted which should help with preparation ahead of attending the tournament.

A draw will be posted below once available.

FIXTURE DRAW AND RESULTS

A big thank you to all teams, team management, umpires and supporters who attended this year’s inaugural event.

PLEASE NOTE: In the interests of continuing to offer opportunities for this representative level the following event dates have been proposed for 2017:

Open Grade (19+) Invitational Fixtures – Sunday 17th September 2017 held at ASB Sports Centre in Wellington hosted by Netball Wellington Centre.

Open Grade (19+) Tournament - Sunday 8th October held at Arena Manawatu in Palmerston North hosted by Netball Central Zone Lead Centres.

We hope to get the chance to welcome more Open Grade (19+) teams next year!