England Netball have introduced the brand new Vitality Roses squad for the 2025-26 season.
It options 24 gamers, 19 of whom are based mostly within the UK working within the Netball Tremendous League and NXT Gen league and whereas 5 play within the Suncorp Tremendous Netball league in Australia.
Sasha Glasgow and Halimat Adio return after a 12 months’s break from the full-time programme and Jas Brown, Emma Rayner, Anya Williams and Yomi Wilson enter the programme for the primary time from the Future Roses programme.
Nat Metcalf and Eleanor Cardwell, who had been each a part of the silver-medal profitable Netball World Cup squad in 2023, each enter their tenth consecutive 12 months on the programme.
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“We have selected an exciting and tactically diverse group of athletes for the Vitality Roses programme this year that I am looking forward to working with them all as we head towards the much-anticipated Commonwealth Games in Glasgow 2026 and beyond to the Netball World Cup in Sydney in 2027,” Vitality Roses head coach Jess Thirlby stated.
“As at all times, it has been a welcome problem to establish these athletes we really feel will assist transfer us nearer to profitable World Cup gold over the course of the subsequent two years given the power in expertise our eligible athletes have displayed within the relaunched Netball Tremendous League and abroad within the Suncorp Tremendous Netball league.
“There’s a wholesome stability of returning athletes, with all of the expertise they’ve now accrued, who’ve loved some standout performances on the worldwide stage in current seasons, in addition to those that have proven up and persistently carried out of their respective home competitions.
“We now turn our attention to fully raising the bar and elevating our performance levels with this group and look forward to an exciting international window.”
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Response from England’s Funmi Fadoju and head coach Jess Thirlby after they gained the Vitality Netball Nations Cup beating South Africa within the ultimate
Vitality Roses programme gamers:
Halimat Adio
Imogen Allison
Jas Brown
Eleanor Cardwell
Amy Carter
Beth Cobden
Zara Everitt
Funmi Fadoju
Sasha Glasgow
Helen Housby
Nat Metcalf
Berri Neil
Tash Pavelin
Lois Pearson
Razia Quashie
Ellie Rattu
Emma Rayner
Paige Reed
Alicia Scholes
Jessica Shaw
Olivia Tchine
Anya Williams
Francesca Williams
Yomi Wilson
