Netball in Lesotho

Netball in Lesotho
National team	Lesotho

Lesotho has a national netball league, and has participated in as well as hosted several netball tournaments.

1 Tournaments
2 Ranking
3 References
4 Bibliography
5 External links

Tournaments

In April 2008, Lesotho hosted the Malawi Under-21 national netball team. The match was part of the annual Confederation of Southern African Netball Associations (COSANA) tournament.^[1]

In September 2010, Lesotho performed poorly in the African qualifying tournament for the World Netball Championships. During the competition, they lost 50-25 to Tanzania, 84-16 to South Africa, 58-24 to Zimbabwe. The qualifying tournament took play in Pretoria, South Africa.^[2]

In December 2010, Lesotho hosted a one day netball tournament. Ministry of Gender, Youth, Sports and Recreation was one of the co-organizers of the event. The tournament was created to help raise breast cancer awareness.^[3]

Ranking

Lesotho has a national league. Corporations also sponsor teams around the country. Some corporate sponsors include Central Bank of Lesotho, Standard Lesotho Bank, Lesotho Revenue Authority and Metropolitan Lesotho.^[3]

In September 2010, the team was ranked number twenty-three in the world.^[2] As of January 2011, the women's national team was ranked number twenty-five in the world.^[4]

References

^ Nyasa Times Reporter 2008
^ ^a ^b Xinhua 2010
^ ^a ^b International Federation of Netball Associations 2010e
^ International Federation of Netball Associations 2011a

Bibliography

International Federation of Netball Associations (21 January 2011). "Current World Rankings". http://www.netball.org/IFNA.aspx?id=94. Retrieved 4 March 2011.
International Federation of Netball Associations (10 December 2010). "Netball Weekly Roundup". http://www.netball.org/news.aspx?id=441. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Nyasa Times Reporter (10 April 2008). "Malawi U-21 netball in Lesotho for Cosana". Nyasa Times. http://www.nyasatimes.com/sports/malawi-u-21-netball-in-lesotho-for-cosana.html. Retrieved 5 March 2011.
Xinhua (10 September 2010). "Lesotho netball team humbled". Lesotho netball team humbled. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90779/90867/7136878.html. Retrieved 5 March 2011.

External links

Netball South Africa

International netball

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Oceania	Oceania Netball Federation

Africa	Confederation of African Netball Associations

Europe	Federation of European Netball Associations

Asia	Asian Federation of Netball Associations – Asian Championship

Americas	Americas Federation of Netball Associations

Other	Associate members

National netball teams of Africa

Botswana · Lesotho · Malawi · South Africa · Swaziland · Tanzania · Uganda

Netball in Africa

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States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland

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