August 1, 2014 Mahurangi Matters netballfeature

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netball 50 y e A r A n n i v e r s A ry

Several generations of netballers will gather in Wellsford to mark Netball Rodney’s 50th Jubilee this month.The celebrations, from August 15 to 17, will include a wine and cheese on the senior’s semi-final night, an official Jubilee Opening March during the junior competition on Saturday morning, group photos, a Jubilee Dinner at the Wellsford Community Centre and the Oldfield Shield Tournament and prizegiving on the Sunday.Association president Lynette Gubb is encouraging anyone who has been involved with Netball Rodney – as coach, player, referee or supporter – to register for the jubilee as soon as possible.“It hasn’t been an easy job getting the publicity out to everyone, particularly those who no longer live in the district, so we need people to pass the word around,” she says. “We’re expecting a really great weekend of netball; a reunion as much as anything else.”Memorabilia such as early club uniforms, photographs and trophies will be on display over the weekend, and a special surprise guest speaker has been lined-up for the Jubilee Dinner.Netball Rodney grew from very small

netball stalwarts oversee rodney centre’s growth

beginnings in the 1950s. Initially, a Warkworth senior team joined the Waitemata Basketball Association, which played in Silverdale. Then, in 1959, Wellsford joined Warkworth and Orewa to form the North Waitemata Basketball Sub Association.Orewa left that association in early 1960 so the remaining committee

formed the Rodney Basketball Sub Association in 1964. Rodney became affiliated to the Auckland Basketball Association, but changed affiliation to North Shore the following year.In the late 1960s, outdoor basketball officially changed to netball and Rodney started the 1971 season as the Rodney Netball Sub Association.

The regional Association was still North Shore, with Hibiscus Coast and Rodney as its sub associations. Games were played in alternate venues – Warkworth and Wellsford – but with the interest widening further afield, it was decided to centralise. In 1976, there were 18 senior and 16 junior

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RODNEY

Congratulations

Rodney Netball Centre

- 50 yrs

175 Rodney St, Wellsford

Ph 423 8238

175 Rodney St, Wellsford

Ph 423 8238

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50 Years

teams, and from 1978, all games were played at Rodney College. By 1980 the membership covered an area from Maungaturoto to Puhoi.The Netball Rodney Centre, at Centennial Park, was opened by Tui Mason, wife of the then Mayor Gordon Mason, in 1985, on the association’s 21st anniversary.The centre’s six courts now cater for 10 clubs in the Friday night senior competition and 17 clubs in the Saturday morning junior competition, representing 68 teams or more than 600 players.Association Life Members are Gladys Adams, Lynette Gubb, Jenny Hastie, Pixie Jones, Val Moffat, Annie Oldfield and Lorris Prictor. The patron is Gladys Adams.Info: netballrodneycenter@xtra.co.nz or phone 09 423 7400.

Centre’s growthfrom previous page

Centre president Lynette Gubb sorts through memorabilia ahead of the anniversary.

There have been many competitions held between neighbouring associations over the years, but the one that has survived the test of time is the Oldfield Shield.Mrs Elsie Oldfield, who was co-president with Miss Grayling when the Rodney Basketball Sub Association formed, donated the shield in 1964. It was to be played for by the sub associations and that concept of the competition has essentially been maintained.Hibiscus Coast, North-West, Kaipara and Rodney Centres look forward to this every year. Teams at the various levels play in sections and points are recorded. At the end of the day, the centre with the most points wins the shield.In 1987, the three associations competing at the time – Rodney, Hibiscus Coast and North-West – finished on the same points total sharing the victory; an event that has never been repeated.Unfortunately, Hibiscus Coast lost the original shield in 1985 and with it some of the history. From then on it was decided to hold the Oldfield Shield at Rodney annually rather than rotating around the associations.

Oldfield shield competition stirs rivalries

Sister-in-law Annie Oldfield with the Elsie Oldfield Shield, which is currently held by Northern Wairoa.

Email: netballrodneycenter@xtra.co.nz, Phone: 09 423 7400Centennial Park, Centennial Road, PO Box 4 Wellsford 0940

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Prior to the formation of Netball Rodney in 1964, basketball was played in the schools, but there were no locally-organised Saturday games.The senior players from the Warkworth area caught the morning Gubbs Motors bus to Silverdale on Saturdays, played their game at the Silverdale Sub-Association, then caught the afternoon Gubbs bus back to Warkworth.Among these players was Jennie

Ferguson, who played her final two years of netball in 1964/65 in the new Rodney Netball Sub-Association, and Lorraine Hatfull (nee Streat) who started playing nine-aside basketball, before it changed to seven-aside basketball in 1959. Lorraine stopped playing basketball when she left school in 1946 and came back as an umpire in 1960 and continued to umpire and coach until the early 1970’s. She was the inaugural

secretary of the Rodney Netball Sub-Association with Elsie Oldfield as the president. Life member Pixie Jones joined the Sub-association at the start of the 1970 season, when she went on to the committee as treasurer and junior representative coach/selector, and started the Matoma club, which won the top grade competition many times.Read more about netball’s local history online at localmatters.co.nz

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From the netball archiveslookingback...

The Warkworth Marathons senior team in 1964, from left, Jennifer Ferguson (nee Butler), Tina Anning (nee Morrison), Susanne Scrivener, Lois McCarthy, Gaylene Jones (nee Brown), Nadine Clegg, Mariane Moore and Jillian Pirrit.

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For a small association, Netball Rodney has produced several elite players. In 1987, the sub-associations, Rodney and Hibiscus Coast selected a North Shore Sub Association team to play in the national tournament where they won the Fourth Grade. Rodney had three players in this team – Lynda McGregor, Megan Buckley and Lynn Schutt (Prictor). Pixie Jones was the manager. But with changes in the North Shore Association afoot, the team would only go on to play in one other national tournament in 1988 where it finished third equal in the Third Grade. Lynda and Megan were again in the team and Val Moffat, from Rodney,

was the manager.The latest Rodney player to excel is Jessica Moulds, from Otamatea. She represented Rodney in Centre representative teams and the northern region U17 and U19 teams. While at Otago University, she was selected for Otago U21 and then New Zealand U21s, which she also captained. She has played for the Mystics and is now in her second year with the Tactics.Several other players have also made their mark including Stacey Martin and Helena Humfrey (nee Korewha) who was selected to play for the North Harbour age group team. She still plays today and her daughter is a Centre representative player.

rising stars take centre court

Among the special guests at the 50th Jubilee will be Rodney’s own Jessica Moulds (front right) and Mystics star Erikana Pedersen. Jessica is pictured at a Fun Ferns workshop in Wellsford.

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