British Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship returns in October

Loughborough Lightning are the defending champions; hosts London Pulse and the league’s latest franchise Leeds Rhinos are set to participate for the primary time. Each match might be stay on Sky Sports activities on October 30

Loughborough Lightning are the defending champions going into the 2021 British Fast5 All-Stars Championship

The British Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship will return on October 30, with eight Vitality Netball Superleague groups set to participate on the Copper Field Enviornment in London.

Loughborough Lightning will arrive in London because the defending champions after Jo Harten impressed stunning championship victory in 2019.

From begin to end the England worldwide shooter mesmerised the group together with her long-range photographs and her distinctive accuracy from the five-point zone. She scored all 61 of their factors of their 61-35 ultimate victory over Wasps.

This yr, Manchester Thunder, Strathclyde Sirens, Saracens Mavericks, Crew Tub Netball and Wasps will all problem Lightning, alongside debutants London Pulse and Leeds Rhinos.

All the Vitality Netball Superleague primarily based Vitality Roses might be out there for choice, each match might be stay on Sky Sports activities and the winner of the competitors will safe a £100,000 prize fund.

“Quick 5s might be very pleasurable. It is at all times thrilling and eventful as a participant as a result of it is a whirlwind of a day,” Gia Abernethy of Strathclyde Sirens stated.

“It is continuous netball for us and the followers makes the competitors so distinctive to look at. It is about driving the momentum all through the day and being on the courtroom with one another once more – I can’t wait!”

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London Pulse’s Funmi Fadoju will make her British Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship debut and, like Abernethy, she will’t wait to get on courtroom.

“I am so excited to participate in my first Fast5 All-Stars. That is London Pulse’s first time collaborating and your complete squad is fired up and able to compete.

“We won’t wait to play this quick and livid competitors in entrance of all of our followers at our residence venue.”

In the meantime, Sara Francis-Bayman can be centered on the defending champions giving a superb account of themselves come October 30.

“Lightning are excited to be coming into this yr’s competitors as defending champions however might be attacking the event like there’s nothing to lose,” she stated.

“It is an important likelihood for brand spanking new gamers to get courtroom time and have some enjoyable with the staff while preventing for some severe prize cash.”

The format will see groups compete in a double-elimination group stage earlier than the semi-finals and ultimate on the night of October 30.

Matches might be 12-minutes lengthy with an all-star 5-point line, and a Golden Buzzer Energy Play.