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| country = Trinidad and Tobago
| country = Trinidad and Tobago
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| image = Flag of Trinidad and Tobago.svg
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| nickname = Calypso Girls
| nickname = Calypso Girls
| association = Trinidad and Tobago Netball Association
| association = Trinidad and Tobago Netball Association
| confederation = [[Americas Federation of Netball Associations|AFNA]] ([[Netball in the Americas|Americas]])
| confederation = [[Americas Federation of Netball Associations|AFNA]] ([[Netball in the Americas|Americas]])
| coach =Wesley “Pepe” Gomes
| coach = Wesley “Pepe” Gomes
| asst coach =Grace Parkinson Griffith
| asst coach = Grace Parkinson Griffith
| manager =Carol Gittens
| manager = Carol Gittens
| captain = Joelisa Cooper
| captain = Joelisa Cooper
| vice-captain =
| vice-captain =
| caps =
| caps =
| top scorer =Samantha Wallace
| top scorer = [[Samuel McCready]]
| rank = 13
| rank = 11 {{steady}}
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| WNC apps =
| WNC apps = 15
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| WNC debut =
| WNC recent = 9th
| WNC prev = 2023
| WNC recent = 12th
| WNC best = Joint 1st ([[1979 World Netball Championships|1979]])
| WNC best = Joint 1st ([[1979 World Netball Championships|1979]])
| CWG apps =
| CWG apps = 3
| CWG debut =
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| CWG prev = 2014
| CWG prev = 2022
| CWG recent = 10th
| CWG recent = 11th
| CWG best =
| CWG best = 8th ([[Netball at the 2010 Commonwealth Games|2010]])
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The '''Trinidad and Tobago national netball team''', known as the '''Calypso Girls''', represent [[Trinidad and Tobago]] in international [[netball]]. The Caribbean team competed at the first [[World Netball Championships]] in 1963, and are the only nation outside of [[Australia national netball team|Australia]] and [[New Zealand national netball team|New Zealand]] to have won a World Championship (in [[1979 World Netball Championships|1979]]). Throughout the mid-1970s and 1980s the Calypso Girls were a dominant force in international netball, but since the early 1990s the team have become less competitive.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Netball Champion: Peggy Castanada-Phillip speaks |url=http://www.triniview.com/Peggy_Castanada-Phillip/ |publisher=TriniView.com |date=10 March 2007 |accessdate=24 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Johannsen, Dana |date=8 July 2011 |title=A tale of two women and their sport |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10737013 |newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |accessdate=24 July 2011}}</ref>
The '''Trinidad and Tobago national netball team''', known as the '''Calypso Girls''', represent [[Trinidad and Tobago]] in international [[netball]]. The Caribbean team competed at the first [[World Netball Championships]] in 1963, and are the only nation outside of [[Australia national netball team|Australia]] and [[New Zealand national netball team|New Zealand]] to have won a World Championship (in [[1979 World Netball Championships|1979]]). Throughout the mid-1970s and 1980s the Calypso Girls were a dominant force in international netball, but since the early 1990s the team have become less competitive.<ref>{{cite web |title=World Netball Champion: Peggy Castanada-Phillip speaks |url=http://www.triniview.com/Peggy_Castanada-Phillip/ |publisher=TriniView.com |date=10 March 2007 |accessdate=24 July 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Johannsen, Dana |date=8 July 2011 |title=A tale of two women and their sport |url=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10737013 |newspaper=[[The New Zealand Herald]] |accessdate=24 July 2011}}</ref>

                                Trinidad and Tobago Netball

The Trinidad and Tobago national netball team is known as the Calypso Girls named for the music that was born from that island nation has made history in the world of netball. The sport was started in the early 1900 after slavery to empower women in the country, at that time the first athletes were the children of the slave masters who had been privilege enough to afforded opportunity to form clubs like Malvern, Maple, Harvard and Queens Park. Then in the 1930s the children of slaves were the one playing the sport. The Calypso girls represented the island nations in international netball competition and was the first Trinidad team to garner national recognition. The Trinidad team competed at the first world netball championship in 1963. Trinidad’s netball flourished in the mid1900s as the women that were marginalize started to explore the possibility of competing on the world stage. There were many women who contributed to the advancement of the sport. These women were unlike the American female sport stars were welcomed by their male counterparts in the area of sports. This lead to the rapid growth of the sport. At that time there were no other sport that women competed in with the exception of lawn tennis. Women like Lystra Lewis, Eugenia Theodosia Pierre, Antionette Gaskins, Ingrid Blackman and Club players like Jean Best and Phyllis Best. Made major contribution to the sport of netball, which is still played in the islands. Netball in Trinidad and Tobago is a sport that let the women of Trinidad of improve and develop in ways unimagined by the new government. This sport is the first sport that Trinidad and Tobago were able win its first world championship in 1979. The team consisted of the following ladies Ingrid Blackman, Angela Burke-Brown, Peggy Castanada, Heather Charleau, Cyrenia Charles, Marcia Dimsoy, Jennifer Nurse, Sherril Peters, Althea Thomas, Jennifer, Williams, Eugenia Theodosia Pierre, and Veryl Prescod

Netball is a sport developed at about the same time as women basketball but remain with the basic rules of the old criteria. Netball is a sport played by two teams of seven players. Its was introduced to England in the 1890s and requires the abilities to catch the ball, passing is extremely important in net ball. There are five types of passes they are: bounce passes, chest passes, flick passes, lob passes and shoulder passes other than that we have footwork and shooting. There is no dribbling to advance the ball in net ball it is based totally on the passing of the ball when players get into there shooting range they have 3 seconds to shoot the ball. The sport was first played in England in 1895 at a woman’s college in Kent England. Madame Ostenburg’s College for women. this was a physical training school for ladies Netball's popularity continued to grow, with the game being played in many British Commonwealth countries. The two iconic women who made this sport so readily accepted were Lystra Lewis and Eugenia Theodosia Pierre

'''Lystra Lewis'''

Trinidad Netball was influenced greatly by Lystra Lewis, her career started as a youth in high school. Miss Lewis played for Tranquility secondary school in netball and later played club netball for Malvern sports club from 1940 to mid-1950s. Her love for the sport was the basis for the start of the coaching career. She was a Stallworth for the many clinics and seminars in many of the Caribbean islands. she also promoted the sport in the west indies in 1945 she was the Secretary/Treasurer of the Port-of-Spain Netball League and coached the Trinidad & Tobago National Team for the first time in 1952. She was a member of the West Indies Netball Board of Control when it was formed in 1954 and was the lone West Indian representative at the 1960 World Netball Conference in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA) was established. She received a scholarship from the British Council and left Trinidad to study physical education at Bedford College. She later became the first West Indian to be appointed to the All-English Panel of Umpires. She returned to Trinidad in 1961 to coach the national team and to introduce netball to primary and secondary schools. In 1962, she was the driving force behind the erection of the first official netball court in Trinidad at the Princess Building Grounds, Port-of-Spain. Lewis founded the West Indies Netball Association in 1963 and coached the national team at the inaugural World Netball Championships in 1963. She assisted in the formation of the Caribbean Netball Association in 1974 and served as an executive member of the IFNA.

'''Eugenia Theodosia Pierre (Jean)'''
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|Trinidad and Tobago Net ball came to world prominence in 1979 when Trinidad and Tobago were tied for first place in the worlds championship one of the players who played on the team was a magnificent player named Eugenia Theodosia Pierre.  Jean Pierre was Born march 26<sup>th</sup> 1944 in Fyzabad Trinidad and died on December 2, 2002, after a long battle with colon cancer in the Cayman Islands where she was working as a coach. She was an outstanding netball player who played on the highly decorated 1979 T&T netball team that shared the World Championship with Australia and New Zealand. She later became a government sports minister in Trinidad from 1991 to 1995. In recognition of her contributions to netball in T&T, the Jean Pierre sports complex in Port-of-Spain was named after her
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==Players==
==Players==


=== 2015 Calypso Girls Netball World Cup Team ===
=== 2023 Calypso Girls Netball World Cup Team ===
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| colspan=2 align=center bgcolor=#ABCDEF | '''Trinidad and Tobago national netball team'''
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| width=300 bgcolor=gainsboro | '''Players'''
| width=250 bgcolor=gainsboro | '''Management
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|Amanda Cameron,
|Amanda Cameron,


Kielle Connelly,
Kielle Connelly,

Samuel McCready,


Joelisa Cooper,
Joelisa Cooper,
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Kemba Duncan,
Kemba Duncan,


Candice Guerero,
[[Candice Guerero]],


Onella Jack,
[[Onella Jack]],


Rhonda John-Davis,
[[Rhonda John-Davis]],


Tricia Liverpool,
Tricia Liverpool,


Kalifa McCollin,
[[Kalifa McCollin]],


Afeisha Noel,
Afeisha Noel,


Daystar Swift, and
[[Daystar Swift]],


Samantha Wallace
| valign=top |Coach - Wesley “Pepe” Gomes
| valign=top |Coach - Wesley “Pepe” Gomes


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Trainer - Wayne Samuel
Trainer - Wayne Samuel

President - Patrica Butcher
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| bgcolor=gold | [[File:Med 1.png]] Joint 1st
| bgcolor=gold | [[File:Med 1.png]] Joint 1st
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| 1983 || [[1983 World Netball Championships|6th World Championships]] || Singapore
| 1983 || [[1983 World Netball Championships|6th World Championships]] || [[Singapore]]
| bgcolor=#CC9966 | [[File:Med 3.png]] 3rd
| bgcolor=#CC9966 | [[File:Med 3.png]] 3rd
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| bgcolor=silver | [[File:Med 2.png]] Joint 2nd
| bgcolor=silver | [[File:Med 2.png]] Joint 2nd
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| 1991 || [[1991 World Netball Championships|8th World Championships]] || Sydney, Australia || DNP
| 1991 || [[1991 World Netball Championships|8th World Championships]] || [[Sydney]], Australia || DNP
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| 1995 || [[1995 World Netball Championships|9th World Championships]] || [[Birmingham]], England || 6th
| 1995 || [[1995 World Netball Championships|9th World Championships]] || [[Birmingham]], England || 6th
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| 1999 || [[1999 World Netball Championships|10th World Championships]] || [[Christchurch]], New Zealand || 8th
| 1999 || [[1999 World Netball Championships|10th World Championships]] || [[Christchurch]], New Zealand || 8th
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| 2003 || [[2003 World Netball Championships|11th World Championships]] || [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]], Jamaica || 10th
| 2003 || [[2003 World Netball Championships|11th World Championships]] || Kingston, Jamaica || 10th
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| 2007 || [[2007 World Netball Championships|12th World Championships]] || [[Auckland]], New Zealand || 11th
| 2007 || [[2007 World Netball Championships|12th World Championships]] || Auckland, New Zealand || 11th
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| 2011 || [[2011 World Netball Championships|13th World Championships]] || Singapore || 7th
| 2011 || [[2011 World Netball Championships|13th World Championships]] || Singapore || 7th
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| 2015 || [[2015 Netball World Cup|14th World Cup]] || Sydney, Australia || 9th
| 2015 || [[2015 Netball World Cup|14th World Cup]] || Sydney, Australia || 9th
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| 2019 || [[2019 Netball World Cup|15th World Cup]] || [[Liverpool]], England || 9th
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| 2023 || [[2023 Netball World Cup|16th World Cup]] || [[Cape Town]], South Africa || 12th
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Latest revision as of 19:57, 19 October 2024

Trinidad and Tobago
Nickname(s)Calypso Girls
AssociationTrinidad and Tobago Netball Association
ConfederationAFNA (Americas)
Head coachWesley “Pepe” Gomes
Asst coachGrace Parkinson Griffith
ManagerCarol Gittens
CaptainJoelisa Cooper
Top scorerSamuel McCready
World ranking11 Steady
Team colours
Team colours
Netball World Cup
Appearances15
2023 placing12th
Best resultJoint 1st (1979)
Commonwealth Games
Appearances3
2022 placing11th
Best result8th (2010)

The Trinidad and Tobago national netball team, known as the Calypso Girls, represent Trinidad and Tobago in international netball. The Caribbean team competed at the first World Netball Championships in 1963, and are the only nation outside of Australia and New Zealand to have won a World Championship (in 1979). Throughout the mid-1970s and 1980s the Calypso Girls were a dominant force in international netball, but since the early 1990s the team have become less competitive.[1][2]

Players

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2023 Calypso Girls Netball World Cup Team

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Trinidad and Tobago national netball team
Players Management
Amanda Cameron,

Kielle Connelly,

Samuel McCready,

Joelisa Cooper,

Kemba Duncan,

Candice Guerero,

Onella Jack,

Rhonda John-Davis,

Tricia Liverpool,

Kalifa McCollin,

Afeisha Noel,

Daystar Swift,

Coach - Wesley “Pepe” Gomes

Asst. Coach - Grace Parkinson Griffith

Manager - Carol Gittens

Trainer - Wayne Samuel

President - Patrica Butcher

Competitive history

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Netball World Cup
Year Championship Location Placing
1963 1st World Championships Eastbourne, England 4th
1967 2nd World Championships Perth, Australia 5th
1971 3rd World Championships Kingston, Jamaica 4th
1975 4th World Championships Auckland, New Zealand 4th
1979 5th World Championships Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago Joint 1st
1983 6th World Championships Singapore 3rd
1987 7th World Championships Glasgow, Scotland Joint 2nd
1991 8th World Championships Sydney, Australia DNP
1995 9th World Championships Birmingham, England 6th
1999 10th World Championships Christchurch, New Zealand 8th
2003 11th World Championships Kingston, Jamaica 10th
2007 12th World Championships Auckland, New Zealand 11th
2011 13th World Championships Singapore 7th
2015 14th World Cup Sydney, Australia 9th
2019 15th World Cup Liverpool, England 9th
2023 16th World Cup Cape Town, South Africa 12th

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "World Netball Champion: Peggy Castanada-Phillip speaks". TriniView.com. 10 March 2007. Retrieved 24 July 2011.
  2. ^ Johannsen, Dana (8 July 2011). "A tale of two women and their sport". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 24 July 2011.