Sporting scholar among Team Bath Netball NPL quartet selected for 2024-25 Roses Academy programme
Team Bath Netball 2024 NPL quartet Sascha Dale, Ane De Wet, Neve Marsden and Alanna Pullen have been selected for the 2024-25 Roses Academy programme.
The Academy is part of the England Netball Player Pathway and supports the development of young athletes who are identified as potential senior Roses internationals.
Mid-courter Pullen, who won gold with England at the 2023 Europe Netball U21 tournament, continues her international netball education alongside her academic work at the University of Bath, where she is about to start the second year of a Sports Performance course. She is supported by an Oner Active Sports Scholarship as she pursues her dual careers.
It is a second successive season in the Academy for mid-courter Dale and attacker Marsden, who represented Team Bath at U19 level last season and won the Players’ Player and Most Improved Player awards respectively in the club’s end-of-season celebrations.
Shooter De Wet earns her first Roses selection after impressing selectors during trials. She was both the Players’ and Coaches’ Player of the Year at U17 level for Team Bath last season and was overall U17 Player of the Tournament at the 2024 NPL Tournament in July.
Over the coming months the Roses Academy, led by Roses Pathway Head Coach Sonia Mkoloma and supported by former Team Bath Netball star Tamsin Greenway, will come together for regular camps.
Trials for Team Bath Netball’s 2024-25 NPL (National Performance League) and additional Player Development Programmes – which attracted more than 700 applications from aspiring young netballers from across the South West of England – conclude this week and squads will be announced shortly.
Visit netball.teambath.com/about-us to find out more about Team Bath Netball’s Player Pathway for the season ahead.
Pictured top: Team Bath Netball NPL players (clockwise from top left) Alanna Pullen, Sascha Dale, Neve Marsden and Ane De Wet. CREDITS: Flynn Duggan Photography / Morgan Harlow.
