Joelisa Coop­er will make her fourth ap­pear­ance with the "Ca­lyp­so Girls" at the Net­ball World Cup (NWC) set for Cape Town, South Africa.

The goal-at­tack/goal-shoot­er was named on the 12-mem­ber team for the 16th edi­tion of the world event which starts on Ju­ly 28 and runs un­til Au­gust 6.

"It's an ab­solute ho­n­our. I'm so big on rep­re­sen­ta­tion It's an ab­solute ho­n­our to rep­re­sent my coun­try, my com­mu­ni­ty, my fam­i­ly, and my team," said Coop­er on Thurs­day.

The "Ca­lyp­so Girls" will be among the 16 top net­ball teams, bat­tling it out across the 10 days, with the hope of be­ing crowned cham­pi­ons at net­ball’s most pres­ti­gious event host­ed by the In­ter­na­tion­al Net­ball Fed­er­a­tion (INF).

Coop­er makes a re­turn to the na­tion­al team for the world event af­ter miss­ing the 2019 edi­tion held in Liv­er­pool, Eng­land, due to cir­cum­stances be­yond her con­trol. At the 15 edi­tion, the "Ca­lyp­so Girls" fin­ished ninth.

She made her de­but at the qua­dren­ni­al pre­mier event in in­ter­na­tion­al net­ball in 2007 in New Zealand where T&T placed 11th and Aus­tralia won. At the 13th edi­tion in 2011 in Sin­ga­pore Coop­er helped T&T to sev­enth place. Aus­tralia emerged as the cham­pi­on. In 2015, the pre­mier com­pe­ti­tion was held in Syd­ney, Aus­tralia, and Coop­er and the "Ca­lyp­so Girls" places ninth. The Aus­tralians al­so won that year.

"God has giv­en me the op­por­tu­ni­ty to once again come and rep­re­sent be­cause World Cup is every four years," said Coop­er. "God has giv­en me the strength and abil­i­ty and men­tal ca­pac­i­ty and phys­i­cal ca­pac­i­ty to pull through this far and I'm so grate­ful to him and all that he has blessed me with in my life."

Coop­er will be joined by Shaquan­da Greene-Noel, who plays pro­fes­sion­al­ly with the Celtic Drag­ons in the Vi­tal­i­ty Net­ball Su­per­league in Eng­land. The de­fend­er, for the sec­ond time in a row with the Drag­ons, was re­cent­ly named "Play­er of the Sea­son".

The team al­so in­clude for­mer na­tion­al 800 me­tres cham­pi­on Ale­na Brooks, who will make her de­but but will be with­out star shoot­er Saman­tha Wal­lace, who plays pro­fes­sion­al­ly with New South Wales Swifts in Aus­tralia. She has not ful­ly re­cov­ered fol­low­ing knee surgery.

There is one change to the 11th-ranked na­tion­al team made to the side that will be com­pet­ing at the on­go­ing Cen­tral Amer­i­can and Caribbean (CAC) Games in El Sal­vador and the Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic.

Cen­tre-court play­er Oprah Dou­glas makes a re­turn to the squad, as Jel­lene Richard­son makes way for the To­bag­on­ian and will join Shantell Per­ry-McEwen and Afiya Vin­cent as re­serves. The net­ball com­pe­ti­tion at CAC starts on Mon­day in San Sal­vador.

This coun­try will com­pete in Group D along with de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons New Zealand, Ugan­da, and Sin­ga­pore at the NWC which will, for the first time, take place on the con­ti­nent of Africa.

T&T is the on­ly oth­er team, out­side of Aus­tralia and New Zealand, to win a Net­ball World Cup, as it fin­ished joint win­ners with Aus­tralia and New Zealand at the 1979 World Tour­na­ment host­ed in Port-of-Spain.

T&T team: Shaquan­da Greene-Noel, Joelisa Coop­er, Ale­na Brooks, Tia Bruno, Jameela Mc­Carthy, Jere­sia Mc Eachrane, Tiana Dil­lon, Shaniya Mor­gan, Shantel Seemu­n­gal, Daystar Swift, Oprah Dou­glas, Afeisha Noel.

Re­serves: Shantel Per­ry-McEwen, Jel­lene Richard­son, Afiya Vin­cent.