Team Northumbria (netball)

Team Northumbria is an English netball team based at Northumbria University. Between 2001 and 2005 they played in the Super Cup as Northern Flames. They also played as Team Northumbria Flames. Between 2005–06 and 2018, their senior team played in the Netball Superleague. The netball team is one of several sports teams based at Northumbria University that use the Team Northumbria brand name. Others include an association football team and a basketball team. In 2018 Northumbria University announced it was withdrawing seven of its national league sports teams due to cuts to its elite sport programme. This included Team Northumbria withdrawing from the Netball Superleague.

Team Northumbria
Based inNewcastle upon Tyne
RegionsNorth East England
Home venueSport Central
Northumbria University
LeagueNetball Superleague

Uniform

History

Northern Flames

Between 2001 and 2005, Northern Flames, together with five other franchises – London Hurricanes, London Tornadoes, Team Bath Force, University of Birmingham Blaze and Northern Thunder – competed in the Super Cup.[1][2][3][4] By 2005 Northern Flames had become Team Northumbria Flames.[5][6]

Early Superleague seasons

In 2005 Team Northumbria were named as the North East England franchise in the new Netball Superleague. Together with Brunel Hurricanes, Celtic Dragons, Leeds Carnegie, Galleria Mavericks, Northern Thunder, Loughborough Lightning and Team Bath, Team Northumbria were founder members of the league.[7] Team Northumbria's best performance in the Netball Superleague came in 2007–08 when, with a team that included Megan Hutton, they finished second during the regular season, behind Loughborough Lightning, and qualified for the play-offs.[8] Future England national netball team manager, Tracey Neville began her senior coaching career with Team Northumbria when she served as head coach for the 2011 Netball Superleague season.[9][10][11][12]

Northern Ireland

As part of their preparations for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, the Northern Ireland national netball team formed a partnership with Team Northumbria. This saw seven Northern Ireland internationals – Oonagh McCullough, Fionnuala Toner, Caroline O'Hanlon, Gemma Gibney, Michelle Drayne, Noleen Lennon and Niamh Cooper – play for Team Northumbria during the 2014 Netball Superleague season. With Kate Carpenter taking charge of both teams, Northern Ireland and Team Northumbria also shared a coach.[13][14][15] Toner and O'Hanlon also played for Team Northumbria during the 2015 season.[16]

Later years

Team Northumbria competed in the inaugural 2017 British Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship.[17][18] In July 2018 Northumbria University announced it was withdrawing seven of its national league sports teams due to cuts to its elite sport programme. This included Team Northumbria withdrawing from the Netball Superleague. London Pulse would subsequently replace them for the 2019 season.[19][20][21][22] In addition to playing in the Netball Superleague, Team Northumbria has also represented Northumbria University in the Stan Calvert Cup.[23] Team Northumbria continue to enter teams in intervarsity leagues organised by British Universities and Colleges Sport.[24]

Home venue

Northern Flames played their home games at Gateshead Leisure Centre.[2] Team Northumbria plays its home games at Northumbria University's Sport Central.[24][25]

Notable former players

Internationals
 England
 Northern Ireland
 Australia Fast5
 Jamaica
 New Zealand
 Scotland

Source:[13][14][15][26][27]

Head coaches
Coach Years
England Denise Egan [2][8][28]c. 2001–2008
England Tracey Neville[9][10][11][12]2011
England Lisa Stanley [29]2012
New Zealand Kate Carpenter [13][14][15]2014
England Lisa Stanley-Craig [26]2015
New Zealand Te Aroha Keenan[30][31]2015–2018

References
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  2. "Flames Aim To Set New League On Fire". www.chroniclelive.co.uk. 25 April 2001. Retrieved 24 March 2020.
  3. "Flames Are Shot Down In Play-offs". www.chroniclelive.co.uk. 23 May 2001. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  4. "Classy ladies". www.chroniclelive.co.uk. 14 May 2003. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  5. "Battle of the Sexes in Super Cup Build-Up". www.sportfocus.com. 28 April 2005. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  6. "University Update" (PDF). www.bath.ac.uk. 6 May 2005. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
  7. Dr. Louise Mansfield & Dr. Lara Killick (1 January 2012). "The UK Netball Superleague: A Case Study of Franchising in Elite Women's Sport" (PDF). Brunel University, School of Sport and Education, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UK; and University of the Pacific, Department of Health, Exercise and Sport Science, Stockton, CA.
  8. "TN closing in on final". www.thenorthernecho.co.uk. 29 March 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  9. "Netball: Tracey Neville on a six-year plan". www.thejournal.co.uk. 26 January 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  10. "Neville's long-term goal for her team". www.thenorthernecho.co.uk. 29 January 2011. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  11. "Tracey Neville handed head job at Northern Thunder". www.bbc.co.uk. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  12. "Tracey Neville: The netball coach who is just as busy as her brothers, Gary and Phil". www.independent.co.uk. 1 April 2015. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  13. "Northern Ireland reach for glory with Team Northumbria". www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk. 30 January 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  14. "Northumbria and Northern Ireland in Netball Superleague partnership". www.bbc.co.uk. 4 February 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  15. "Northern Irish eyes are smiling as North-East netball enters a new era". www.thenorthernecho.co.uk. 8 February 2014. Retrieved 7 January 2020.
  16. "Preview: Greenway on the Superleague". www.surreystormnetball.co.uk. 22 January 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2020.
  17. "Team Northumbria complete British Fast5 All-Stars Championship line-up". www.fast5allstars.com. 14 June 2017. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  18. "History". www.fast5allstars.com. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  19. "Team Northumbria withdraw from the Northern League just weeks before new season". www.chroniclelive.co.uk. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  20. "London Pulse join Netball Superleague". www.skysports.com. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  21. "Netball Superleague: London Pulse to replace Team Northumbria in 2019". www.bbc.com. 10 July 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
  22. "Northumbria University axes elite sports teams amid cuts". www.bbc.com. 12 July 2018. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  23. "Stan Calvert: How it happened for Northumbria". stancalvert.co.uk. 2 March 2015. Retrieved 16 March 2020.
  24. "Netball". northumbriasport.com. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  25. "Team Northumbria". www.netballsl.com. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  26. "Team Northumbria's netball coach Lisa Stanley-Craig is confident of success". www.chroniclelive.co.uk. 31 January 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  27. "Team Northumbria sign Jamaican stars Shanice Beckford and Nicole Dixon". www.skysports.com. 21 October 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  28. "Netball: Team Northumbria coach won't walk away". www.chroniclelive.co.uk. 5 December 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  29. "Team Northumbria netball coach saves the day in motorway drama". www.thejournal.co.uk. 19 March 2012. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  30. "Team Northumbria appoint Te Aroha Keenan". www.chroniclelive.co.uk. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  31. "A Kiwi mother and daughter make their mark in Northumbria". www.skysports.com. 22 March 2017. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
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