Brunei national netball team

Brunei
Nickname(s) Royal Bees[1]
Association Brunei Netball Association
Confederation Netball Asia
Head coach Thilaka Jinadasa[1]

Brunei national netball team is the national team representing Brunei in international netball competitions.

History

At the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, the national team of Brunei secured a bronze medal for being one of the two semifinalists.[2]

Brunei repeated this feat again at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games for finishing as one of the semifinalists. In the 2017 edition of the Games, Brunei was guided by Sri Lankan coach, Thilaka Jinadasa. Before the regional stint, they went to Kota Kinabalu and played a series of matches against the Sri Lanka School Team on April 2017[3] and played exposure matches against Singaporean netball teams in Singapore on May 2017 as preparation.[4]

Competitive history

Southeast Asian Games
Year Championship Location Placing
20152015 Southeast Asian GamesSingapore3rd, bronze medalist(s)
20172017 Southeast Asian GamesKuala Lumpur, Malaysia3rd, bronze medalist(s)

Squad

  • Nurulain Abdul Hamid
  • Siti Marhayati Ahmad
  • Siti Nurul Nazihah
  • Athiyyah As'ad
  • Dayangku Khalisha
  • Nurafiqah Samat
  • Nur Syuhaidah Fahriyana
  • Dayangku Nur Amal
  • Nur Ady Elzza
  • Zuraidah
  • Dayangku Noor Nadziratul
  • Nur Hafizah

References

  1. 1 2 Yee, Chun Leong. "Royal Bees Falls to Thailand". Brusport News. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Yee, Chun Leong (3 August 2017). "National Netball Team eye podium finish at SEA Games". Brusports News. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "Brunei National Netball Team Ready For Sri Lanka School Test". International Netball Federation. 3 April 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Hassan, Khairil (15 May 2017). "Netball team Singapore bound to gain exposure". Borneo Bulletin. Retrieved 20 August 2017.
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