Rachael Thomp­son-King

rachael.king@guardian.co.tt

They may have com­pet­ed on op­pos­ing teams in the ASNL but they came to­geth­er to en­sure that T&T would be head­ing to Liv­er­pool, Eng­land next year for the Net­ball World Cup (NWC).

"The man­age­ment com­mit­tee and mem­bers of the Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League sin­cere­ly con­grat­u­late the T&T na­tion­al net­ball team on its suc­cess at the AF­NA Cham­pi­onships," said ASNL ad­min­is­tra­tor Bren­da Prince on be­half of the league, which will host its sea­son ear­ly next year.

With the ex­cep­tion of Kali­fa Mc­Collin who trav­elled, rel­a­tive­ly ear­ly, to meet her com­mit­ment to the Vi­tal­i­ty Su­per League, Eng­land, all the oth­er mem­bers of the na­tion­al team, played in the Courts All Sec­tors League this year. Mc­Collin, though, has com­pet­ed in pre­vi­ous edi­tions of the league with the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T (UTT).

The oth­ers in­clude cap­tain Rhon­da John-Davis, Joelisa Coop­er, Kem­ba Dun­can and young­ster Tahi­rah Hollingsworth of the Po­lice Youth Club; Fire Ser­vices duo Onel­la Jack-Hill and Can­dice Guerero; Daystar Swift of the Uni­ver­si­ty of the West In­dies (UWI); and UTT quar­tet Saman­tha Wal­lace, Shaquan­da Greene and Seemu­n­gal sis­ters, Sh­ernece and Shantel.

Wal­lace too is a pro­fes­sion­al play­er, who com­petes with the New South Wales Swifts in Aus­tralia. Mc­Collin is with the benecos­Mav­er­icks in Eng­land.

Man­ag­er of the na­tion­al team Car­ol Dem­ming-Git­tens is al­so an ad­min­is­tra­tor in the ASNL.

"The league con­sid­ers that all the hard work and ded­i­ca­tion cer­tain­ly paid off with these suc­cess­es and

these, in turn, demon­strate in­domitable courage and for­ti­tude," said Prince.

"The Courts All Sec­tors Net­ball League will con­tin­ue to pro­vide a plat­form for the par­tic­i­pa­tion of these

play­ers in Net­ball at the elite lev­el and will en­deav­our to sup­port this work as they con­tin­ue the jour­ney to

NWC 2019.

"Con­grat­u­la­tions again on the wins, the fear­less ef­forts and in­di­vid­ual achieve­ments."