The Locals Netball Club

22/01/2026

🏐 The Locals - Game On at Matapu School! 🏐

We are taking over the netball courts at Matapu School for our last game as ‘The Locals’

SUNDAY 25th JANUARY 2025 - 5pm

Past and present Locals players, coaches, volunteers and supporters all welcome!

Come along for a good time, great vibes, a BBQ and get together to celebrate The Locals Netball Club.
We’ve got everything covered all you need to do is show up with your shoes, drink bottle and game winning attitude 🙌 😉

See you there!

15/01/2026

2026 trial dates out now!
Follow Southern Rugby Netball Club for future updates 🦈

Netball trials are just around the corner!
Register your interest through the events on our page 🏐

15/01/2026

📣CLUB ANNOUNCEMENT 📣

We’re thrilled to announce that The Locals and Naumai Netball Clubs have merged and amalgamated with Southern Rugby, forming Southern Netball for the 2026 season!

This is a huge step forward for our South Taranaki community and one we’re incredibly excited about.
The merger strengthens both rugby and netball in our community and creates amazing opportunities for players, coaches, sponsors and supporters.

From 2026 alongside our junior senior and rugby teams, Southern will field:
🏐 3 Premier Netball teams
🏐 A Hawera Satellite team
🏐 A Men’s Netball team

This makes Southern the only club in Taranaki to field teams across all rugby and netball grades. A massive milestone for our club!

Thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way. We can’t wait for what the future holds!

More information regarding netball can be found on their page Southern Rugby Netball Club

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15/01/2026

🚨 Club Announcement 🚨

The Locals Netball Club have merged with Naumai Netball Club and amalgamated with Southern Rugby to form Southern Rugby Netball Club for the 2026 Season!

Netball trial dates and future information can be found on the Southern Rugby Netball Club page

We are incredibly proud of what our club has achieved and grateful for everyone that has been part of The Locals Netball Club journey. A big thank you to our players, coaches, volunteers, sponsors and supporters over the years - we are very excited to see what the future holds for netball in South Taranaki!!

To celebrate our club coming to and end, we are playing one last game as ‘The Locals’ on Sunday 25th January at 5pm
Venue is to be confirmed - keep an eye out for more information to come.
We would love to have as many of our past and present players, coaches, volunteers and supporters being a part of this so please spread the word!

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27/10/2025

Another one of our Locals players we are super proud of!
Lara Hockly not only a Netball star but also Athletics 🤩

Congratulations Lara on being a Senior Sportswoman Nominee!

20/10/2025

Congratulations Caro! 🙌

Very well deserved! The Locals are super proud of you!
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10/08/2025

Congratulations Tanya Phillips, our super Manager 🤩💙

Congratulations to our Bayleys Taranaki Umpires

Well done on your achievements! 🎉🎉🎉

A big thank you to all of our Umpires who consistently give so much to Netball in Taranaki, you are all superstars!

08/08/2025

Congratulations Caro Olliver!! 💙💛

Congratulations to our Opens Representative Team for 2025! 🥳.

This team will be going to the Netball Wellington Centre Open Grade Fixture on 24th August and the NetballSmart Netball NZ Open Champs on September 10th-13th.

We wish you all well 😍.

11/07/2025

The Locals 60 - Tysons 33

What a way to end the season! 💥
We finished strong, smashed our goals and had a great time doing it!
An incredible team to be apart of!
To our amazing Management Team and loyal supporters who showed up throughout the season - We can’t thank you enough 🥰

Also big thanks to our sponsor - Holdem Contracting LTD 🚜

Meet the management that keep us organised and hold us all together - we really couldn’t do it without them 😇

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08/07/2025

It’s our last game of the season! We’re showing up locked in and ready to leave it all out on court.
Our last chance to display what we’re made of and finish strong in front of our home crowd!

📅 Thursday 10th July
⏰ 6:30pm
📍TSB Hub, Hawera
🆚 Tysons Nga Manu Korimako

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03/07/2025

‼️ Tonight’s game is cancelled ‼️

Stay safe and out of the weather 💙💛

Versatile Premier Netball : cancelled tonight

All Premier games tonight have been cancelled due to surface flooding.

30/06/2025

The girls will be taking the court for the second to last time this season against SERSC, head along to TSB Stadium in New Plymouth to support 💙💛

📅 Thursday 3rd July
⏰ 6:30pm
📍TSB Stadium, New Plymouth
🆚 SERSC CMK

Here’s the last of our 2025 player introductions ✨