Rising stars join forces in Fiji as NWYC2025 prep

Australia, New Zealand and Singapore have arrived in Fiji ahead of the Rising Stars: Fiji 21/U Tour.
This friendly tournament is part of the teams preparations for the Netball World Youth Cup 2025 (NWYC2025), taking place in Gibraltar from the 19th-28th September 2025.
All four teams have already qualified for the NWYC2025, with Fiji, Australia and New Zealand pre-qualifying due to finishing in the top four at the last NWYC in 2017, and Singapore qualifying through the NWYC2025 Qualifier Asia, held in June 2023.
The countries will go head-to-head in match play from the 19th-23rd August, to foster international connections and prepare players for elite competition.
While in Fiji, athletes will also take part in community engagement and cultural exchanges working alongside each other on community centred activities including engagement with local schools.
Also World Netball (WN) and Gilbert Netball have announced that Gilbert Netball
will remain the official ball supplier of WN for a further four years.
Continuing a partnership that was first established in 2005, the agreement will see
Gilbert Netball provide WN with the official ball for all its international netball events,
including its flagship event, the Netball World Cup, as well as the Netball World
Youth Cup, and the FAST5 Netball World Series.
The multi-year deal will also see Gilbert Netball supply WN with over 4,000 legacy balls for Members to use for WN Grow projects and NetEffect programmes, as part of Gilberts commitment to help WN achieve its purpose of creating a better world through netball, and its vision, of creating a sport that is open to all and inspires netballers to embrace opportunities and achieve their full potential.
Speaking on the exciting news Richard Gray, CEO of Commercial at Gilbert, said:
“We are delighted to have renewed our partnership with World Netball, meaning that
we will now supply the official ball for the FAST5 Netball World Series 2024, Netball World Youth Cup 2025 Gibraltar and the Netball World Cup 2027 Sydney.
“We are very proud that this will be attending our 6th consecutive Netball World Cup
with Gilbert netballs being the ball of choice.
“We look forward to continuing to support World Netball develop the sport globally.”
World Netball’s Interim CEO, Vicky Lowe, added: “We are thrilled to be continuing to work with Gilbert Netball for another four years.
Gilbert is a long-standing partner of World Netball who supports our commitment to driving game development and the worldwide delivery of a portfolio of thrilling world-
class events, and we look forward to building on this strategic partnership with them as we continue growing, playing and inspiring.”