Best NSW netballers: U17, U19 state teams, Metro, Regional Emerging Talent

A Sydney club has more netballers than any other in junior teams named for 2021 but numerous players from other clubs and outside city limits have been identified as emerging stars.

Amanda Lulham

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March 21, 2021 - 1:17PM

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Northern beaches club Manly Warringah is celebrating six players being named in NSW state teams ahead of the 2021 nationals but two sets of sisters and players from outside Sydney have also made the cut for top squads.

Manly Warringah netballers Charli Fidler, Chelsea Mann and Audrey Little secured their positions in the NSW U19 squad, giving the northern beaches the highest representation in the team which also boasts players from across Sydney and regional NSW.

Sophie Fawns, who hails from Wagga, has also been named alongside fellow Swifts Academy training partners Little with sisters Natalie and Amy Sligar from Camden and District also selected.

Netball sisters and cricket fans Amy and Natalie Sligar from Camden.

Little’s sister Eugenie is also a talented netballer, earning selection in the U17 NSW team.

And while three northern beaches players - Grace Whyte, Eloise Egan and Little - have made the U17s, so too have players from the NSW south coast and Newcastle.

Emma Keane from Shoalhaven and Millie Tonkin from Newcastle made the cut along with Swifts Academy member Papi Alaalatoa from Liverpool City.

Giants players Kristina Manu'a and under 19 team player Matisse Letherbarrow react during last year’s Super Netball.

The nationals for the U19 and U17 teams will be played in Hobart from July 6-11.

Metro and Regional Emerging teams have also been named ahead of a regional best-of-three competition at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in July.

NSW NETBALL UNDER 17 STATE TEAM 2021

Allanah Gilbertson - Baulkham Hills Shire, Amelia Kirgan - Bankstown City, Ana Lupe Kailahi - Liverpool City, Eloise Egan - Manly Warringah, Emma Keane - Shoalhaven, Eugenie Little - Manly Warringah, Frederika Schneideman - Randwick, Grace Whyte - Manly Warringah, Jade Dawson - Liverpool City, Kyla Thompson - Baulkham Hills Shire, Millie Tonkin - Newcastle, Papi Alaalatoa - Liverpool City.

Sophie Fawns.

Audrey Little.

NSW NETBALL UNDER 19 STATE TEAM 2021

Amy Sligar - Camden & District, Audrey Little - Manly Warringah, Brooke Paterson - Randwick, Charli Fidler - Manly Warringah, Chelsea Mann - Manly Warringah, Courtney Castle - Blacktown City, Erin O’Brien - Northern Suburbs, Jamie Podmore Taylor - Northern Suburbs, Matisse Letherbarrow - Baulkham Hills Shire, Millie Roach - Ku-ring-gai, Natalie Sligar - Camden & District, Sophie Fawns - Wagga Wagga

NSW NETBALL REGIONAL EMERGING TALENT TEAM

Ayla Clark - Illawarra, Chloe Pattison - Charlestown, Ellie Mooney - Orange, Jemma Lucas - Newcastle, Kate Love - Newcastle, Lilli Mooney - Bathurst, Maddi Mueller - Newcastle, Mia Blackett - Coffs Harbour, Mia Evans - Illawarra District, Mia Middleton - Gosford

Sharnee Behr - Illawarra District, Zoe Peden - Newcastle

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NSW NETBALL METRO EMERGING TALENT TEAM

Aimee Landrigan - Camden & District, Ashley Vasquez - Camden & District, Ella Johnson - Ku-ring-gai, Hinemoa Boylan - Campbelltown District, Katarina Sincek - Camden & District, Kiara Bloor - Sutherland Shire, Lucy Matthews - Northern Suburbs, Macy Peni - Eastwood Ryde, Maraea Moeke - St George District, Monalisa Soliola - Liverpool City, Monika ‘Otai - St George District, Olivia Inkster - Manly Warringah.

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