Netball: Round and Intercept

Stand back and watch your team intercept the ball more, with this session!

Win the ball back with clever defending. Develop your players defensive understanding of closing down the space and forcing errors to create the intercept.

Apply pressure on the opposition and limit space to force errors, with this session!

Develop individual defensive skills to improve the overall team defence to pressurise the pass and force an error, encouraging a covering defender to anticipate and make the interception.

Split the group into minimum of 3 people with one ball per group.

Player 2 runs to the side to receive ball from player 1.

They then turn and feed the ball to player 3 (the next player waiting in line).

Player 3 feeds the ball back to player 1 as player 2 moves quickly through to try and intercept the pass.

Split players into pairs with one ball and three cones, placed in a triangle. The feeder stands above the top of the triangle.

Using quick, small steps the worker has to rotate around the cones in a figure of 8 before then receiving the ball and returning it to the feeder at the top of the triangle.

Start slowly before gradually increasing the pace.

White 1 is defending and must try to be first to the pass from the feeder (blue 1).

Blue 2, the attacker, is not allowed to step in front of the defender but can move laterally to be in an open position to receive the pass from the feeder.

Repeat for 5 passes and then rotate players.

Every player is involved in this defensive exercise.

1. The first player in the center passes to an outside player.
2. After passing the ball the passing player drives forward and defends the player who has just received the pass.
3. Once the defender is in place the player to the right of the player who has received the ball should sprint into the center and look to receive a pass (bounce, chest or high) from the outside player.

Once the player in the center has the ball the drill can begin again.