After pulling on the dress for the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic for the past seven years, the 2020 ANZ Premiership season looks a little bit different for defensive minded midcourter Sam Winders. The COVID-19 outbreak caused a netball hiatus in New Zealand and across the world but play is set to resume on 19 June with Winders hoping to lead her team on a more successful campaign in 2020.
New Zealand’s ANZ Premiership along with Community Netball have been suspended for the foreseeable future whilst the Beko Netball League has been cancelled for 2020.
The “Hobbiton” take-over of an ANZ Premiership match has seen Netball Waikato-Bay of Plenty named the winner of the 2019 Innovation Award at the Westpac Waikato Business Awards.