Netball: Working Together

To practice running off the ball players work in pairs, with 1 ball between 2.

The stipulation for this drill is that one player can only pass square whereas the other one can only straight forward.

After each pass the player has to run across to the next cone to be able to receive the next ball and continue the movement.

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Set up: Half court, 3 stationary feeders, 3 balls, 1 attacker, 1-3 defence.

• Feeders are placed in an extended triangle formation. Each feeder has a ball.
• Attacker drives out from transverse line to first feeder where a pass is received, attacker returns pass and moves around the feeder.
• Attacker does so with the other two feeders in the extended triangle formation creating a 'zig zag'.
• Attacker works her way through the 'zig zag' in both directions without errors.

Slowly the two attackers pass the ball back and forth down the court towards the circle. The defender must move to the ball side of the player inside the circle.

The defender must remain on their toes and keep moving as the two attacking players can put the ball into the circle at any point.

Split group into 3 equal teams. Ideally 6 per team.

• 1 team is the attackers,
• 1 team are defenders,
• 1 team is resting off the court.

Split court in half. Half of the defence and attack are restricted to defending half of court while the rest of the players are restricted to attacking half of the court.

1. 1 A starts with the ball on the baseline.
2. Attackers have 5 minutes to get the ball to the other end of the court and score as many times as they can. If the ball is tipped, intercepted or dropped the ball is taken back to the start.
3. After 5 minutes, defenders become attackers, attackers come off to rest, resting team become defenders.