MESSAGE TO EVERYONE

 Training for adults has stop untill July

Training will be every week  for kids . 6.15pm to 7.30pm

 RACE FOR LIFE 2012

This year it is on Sunday 15th July 2012.

1.00am or 3.00 pm

At Lower Castle Park Colchester.

If you are interested in entering go to

raceforlife.org.uk

PLEASE HELP AND SUPPORT THIS FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

If anyone would be interested in organising a team to race let me know.

Hi, My name is Kim Watson and i run KATS Netball Club. I am very proud of my club, and over the years we have achieved many things. We have now decided to put together this webiste for everyone. Club members can come and find out all they need to know, ie: fixtures, up and coming events and to purchase new kit. Here you will find out everything the club has achieved, all details regarding training times and places and how to join the club if you are interested.

We are always looking for new members to join the club, and after browsing through our pages we hope you would like to come and join the madness.

Regards,

Kim

KATS Netball club was first developed in 1999 with two teams KATS and KITTENS. Both teams were in the first division Colchester league. Kim Watson started the club with a sponser from her husbands business "Kim & Andrew Trucking" giving them the name KATS. When starting the club only had 16 members, it now holds over 90 members ageing from 5 - 60!

There are 6 qualified netball coaches, one of which who was the youngest player to pass both her coaching qualification and "C" award umpiring qualificaion at just 15 years old.

The club consists of 18 umpires. 3 "B" awards, 13 "C" awards, and 3 Beginners. We have 2 qualified "C" award testers and 3 qualified umpiring mentors. The club has supported most of the umpires and paid for their courses and tests. We mentor our umpires throughout the seasons and prepare them for their tests.

One club member went on to play for Essex County N.C and for the Mavericks Super League team. Over the years we have had members selcted to play for the County Academy and Regional Potential Talented camps. In 2009 another one of our players was chosen to play for a Regional Team.

We prize ourselves on being a united club, who not only join together for our love of netball, but enjoy weekends away to Pontins, have quiz nights and Christmas parties. We also have a social team who work together on Club days out.

Kats Netball club held a netball funday on Sunday 24th July 2011 in aid of the London 2012 Open weekend. We invited players from clubs, leagues and non players to attend our event. We had over 40 people turn up and put their names into a hat. We had 4 experienced "Kats" players, Kirsty James, Hayley Martin, Debbie Forde and Caroline Nice to manager the teams. Player picked a number to determine what team they would be in. We wanted to mix everyone up as we had all different standards of players. We let each team name themselves and ended up with Hayley's Hotdogs, Kirsty's Cream Eggs, Caroline's Fantastic Four and Debbie's Sundaes. Despite the teams being pulled from a hat, Caroline's Fantastic Four seemed to have all the experienced players, and were the team everyone fretted playing. Each team played each other twice with 1 experienced official, Kim Watson and Maureen wood umpiring each game. They played in a rotation, where at half time and the start of each game the players in the teams had to swap position, so no player was playing in their comfort zone. It was exciting to watch experienced Goal Shooters taking on the role of Centre's and watching Defenders attempting to shoot. The day ran to a success and despite everyone fretting over Caroline's Fantastic Four, it turned out to be Debbie's sundaes that walked away the winners. But the day wasn't over yet, the officials, which consisted of experienced players and umpires decided to take on the winning team. In the first half of the game the officials were winning, 5-1, everyone gathered round to support Debbie's Sundaes willing them to beat the officials. It looked like the officials were going to take the glory of the day, so all the teams grouped together and rolled on substitutes for Debbies Sundae's, with fresh legs on the court Debbie's Sundae's started to pick up speed and gave the officials a run for their money. With everyone cheering both teams on, but secretly wanting Sundae's to win, the game got faster and more competitive. The final score ended 9-9, a draw!! A brilliant way to end a fantastic day. We would just like to thank everyone who attended and to all the organsiers who made this day happen and volenteer their time and effort.

 Would like to say a big well done to the girls who entered the "Fast Net Rally" on Sunday 1st May at Festival park Basildon. We took full advantage of the rolling substitue's and shooting outside the circle. And had a brilliant day, with a different format of netball. Was nice to have a change and was very exciting stuff seeing the girls running on and off into all different positions. Also a big Thankyou to Teresa and Charly for managing the girls for the day, Linda for coaching and Debbie for coming all the way over there to support them.  

Team: Shannon, Kim, Hayley, Hannah, Helen, Kirsty, Marie, Jodie, Kathryn, Shar, Steph.