Stories by Bridget Tunnicliffe

The New Zealand Under-21 team to contest next year's Netball World Youth Cup won't be named for some time but rival teams will already be feeling a dose of trepidation.

Pulse midcourter Claire Kersten admits she has some mixed emotions about her time as a Silver Fern.

There's an assortment of impressive wing attacks in the ANZ Premiership who will put pressure on the Silver Ferns' incumbents.

Star Silver Ferns' captain and shooter Ameliaranne Ekenasio says the move to a two-goal 'Super Shot' in the Australian netball league is exciting.

Some fine circle defenders will miss out on higher honours when the next Silver Ferns' squad is picked.

As competition finally gets underway this weekend, there's perhaps no other netballer in the country who's endured the kind of excruciating wait that former Silver Fern Temalisi Fakahokotau has.

The Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic shooting end will be tested when the ANZ Premiership resumes next week with Monica Falkner scratched for the whole season and her replacement stuck in Australia.

Northern Stars coach Kiri Wills is crossing her fingers that crowds might be allowed when the ANZ netball premiership resumes later this month.

She was named New Zealand's dream player of 75 years of netball at the turn of the millennium but Joan Harnett-Kindley says she would give her "eye teeth" to have played today's game.

Silver Ferns' coach Dame Noeline Taurua says games against the New Zealand Men's team could be an option with international Tests in doubt later this year.

Rising teenage sensation Grace Nweke will spearhead the Northern Mystics shooting end when the ANZ Premiership resumes next month, with Silver Fern Bailey Mes out for the season through injury.

Southern Steel coach Reinga Bloxham admits her side faces a "brutal" season when netball's ANZ Premiership resumes under a new draw next month.

A single venue will be used when the ANZ Netball Premiership resumes under COVID-19 Alert Level 2 and it's likely to be in Auckland.

When Trinidad and Tobago international Daystar Swift signed a contract with the Northern Stars for this year's ANZ Netball Premiership, she finally got the professional break she'd been longing for.

The noise is one of the things former Silver Fern Sandra Edge remembers most about the 1991 Netball World Championship grand final in Sydney, writes Bridget Tunnicliffe. Audio

There is concern small businesses will decide that they might as well go out of business, despite the government launching more measures to help them survive the impacts of Covid-19. Audio

When I looked around at my newly introduced teammates I immediately learnt the beauty of walking netball - it's a great leveller.

New Zealand researchers studying netball fans have found that while they might not be as visible as fans from other codes, they are just as passionate.

The last time double Olympic rowing champion Mahe Drysdale competed at a pinnacle event in the single scull was his gold medal winning effort at the Rio Olympics in 2016.

When Maia Lewis was a kid no one could have predicted she would become the first Māori woman to be inducted into Lords.

Silver Ferns coach Dame Noeline Taurua achieved her two main objectives at the Nations Cup - winning and building more depth.

New Zealand racewalker Quentin Rew has tweeted 20 times from his Twitter account with the exact same message, writes Bridget Tunnicliffe. Video

Sports Call - Noeline Taurua knows a lot more needs to be done before she can walk away from the Silver Ferns with some confidence that everything she's achieved won't be for nothing.

Silver Ferns mentor Noeline Taurua is a coach who thinks outside the box, but has continued a conservative approach to selecting players.

One of the leading coaches in Australia's Super Netball competition says he was heartbroken when the old trans-Tasman competition disbanded.