WA’s Sunday Aryang and Trinity Rond have been selected in Netball Australia’s 24-strong squad in preparation for the Netball World Youth Cup, which will take place in Suva, Fiji in June 2021.
The selection of the athletes has been based on performances in Suncorp Super Netball, the Deakin University Australian Netball League, the National Netball Championships and training camps throughout 2019.
Aryang is a Fever training partner, regularly matching up on superstar shooter Jhaniele Fowler, as well as being a key member of the Western Sting team and a member of the 2019 under-19 Australian squad. She made her Suncorp Super Netball debut this season against the NSW Swifts, after the rising defender was elevated to the West Coast Fever squad in place of Courtney Bruce who was forced out with an elbow injury.
Rond competed in Brisbane in April as part of the WA under-17 team, where she earned selection for the National Squad Camp at the Australian Institute of Sport. Rond plays in the Gold Industry Group WANL competition for the Western Roar, who won the 2019 20U division premership.
Both players are Western Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holders.
West Coast Fever Head Coach Stacey Marinkovich said Aryang and Rond’s selection is testament to the Netball WA pathway.
“We’ve been really impressed with Sunday and Trinity’s performances in 2019 and they thoroughly deserve their chance to compete for a spot on the Australian Netball World Youth Cup team,” said Marinkovich.
“Their selection demonstrates the strength of our player pathways in our State.”
The squad will first meet at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra on Friday 14 February for a four-day training camp that will commence Netball Australia’s 2021 Netball World Youth Cup campaign.
A second squad selection will then be made at the beginning of August 2020 and these athletes will represent Australia on a tour of Fiji later in the year where the squad will play several matches to prepare them for international competition.
Australia has won the Netball World Youth Cup four times, in 1988, 1996, 2000 and 2009. New Zealand has also won the event four times, including the last two titles in 2013 and 2017.
10 out of the 18 members of the current Samsung Australia Diamonds squad played in a Netball World Youth Cup tournament earlier in their careers.
2019/2020 Australian Netball World Youth Cup squad:
• Nyah Allen – South Australia
• Sunday Aryang – Western Australia
• Lucy Austin – South Australia
• Chelsea Blackman – South Australia
• Maggie Caris – Victoria
• Georgia Dent – South Australia
• Sophie Dwyer – New South Wales
• Macy Gardner – Queensland
• Kimberley Hearnden – South Australia
• Georgie Horjus – South Australia
• Clare Iongi – New South Wales
• Matisse Letherbarrow – New South Wales
• Sacha McDonald – Victoria
• Matilda McDonell – New South Wales
• Annie Miller – New South Wales
• Hannah Mundy – Victoria
• Tyler Orr – South Australia
• Martina Reekers – Queensland
• Maddison Ridley – Victoria
• Trinity Rond – Western Australia
• Amy Sligar – New South Wales
• Allie Smith – Victoria
• Tayla Williams – South Australia
• Sarahpheinna Woulf – Queensland
