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Allenbourn

Canford

West Dorset County

Pro-Grip

Winchester Uni

England

TANYA KNOWLTON became a keen netball player during her years at Allenbourn Middle School, Wimborne and while doing Gymnastics. Together with many of her friends and PE teacher SANDY HAYES (Nee: Barnes) they won the POOLE & EAST DORSET TOURNAMENT 1999 and brought back the County Netball Trophy – they became the first ever Allenbourn side to be the County Champions in 51 years of the schools history.

Tanya and her team mates then joined Beavers Junior Netball Club and although a few girls dropped out, four members stuck together even though they gone to different upper schools - Corfe Hills School (CH) and Queen Elizabeth School (QE). In the year 2000-2001 Beavers U16 were Runners up in the West Dorset Junior League.

Tanya and Katrina Both were accepted in September 2000 for WEST DORSET COUNTY  NETBALL TEAM (U16). Tanya was asked to guest in the under 21's international week long tournament in Guernsey (age 15)

In the year 2001-2002 Tanya, Katrina, Gemma and Katherine were all accepted into the West Dorset County Netball Team and Tanya was made captain.

Since the year 2000 all four players joined CANFORD NETBALL CLUB (adult) 2nd team (formerly Beavers) and played in the POOLE NETBALL LEAGUE (Division Two) both in the Winter and Summer season.

In the year 2001 Tanya was asked to play for the Canford Senior Team Team, who were playing in Division One of the POOLE LEAGUE.

In 2001, she was considered by coach Chris Neal to be put forward for trials to play for England but due to a knee and ankle injury while playing in a match for Canford, the doctor had informed her that was not to be..........

2002 - 2003 Tanya was invited by the then new Australian coach, Leanne Kerr, to continue playing in West Dorset County Netball team as GA and WA.

In May 2002, she was invited for a trial and accepted, joining  PROGRIP Netball Team playing in the Bournemouth league.........

July, 2003, leaves for the "New Zealand & Fiji 2003 Rugby and Netball Tour" for 4.5 weeks and though it was expected to not do so well against such formidable teams, in actual fact the English Tour did more than expected to say the least check out the website...........

Winchester University Netball team in relaxed mode

2004, Tanya left all the clubs to go to Winchester University (King Alfred's) where she has now joined the Universities Netball team while studying for her sports degree..........

2005, April 5th, "Italian Netball tour" Tanya, as part of Winchester University Netball team will play teams in Remini on the East coast .......... (to be continued)

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History and Achievements Overview:

Canford Netball Club was formally known as BEAVERS INTERNATIONAL NETBALL Club until March of 2002.  BEAVERS was originally formed with the concept of enabling players the opportunity to travel away from the local area to play a higher level of Netball and to give all ages a chance to play under very professional standards. This concept is adhered to, to this day.

·        1981, The Club was formed.  Sponsored by Renwick Travel with Club colours of Green and Golden yellow . The Club boasted a Senior section , U21, U16 - the minimum age being 12 years old.

·        1982, To continue to raise funds to travel, the first Invitation Tournament was held.

·        1985, the founder member Betty Hardy died, the Club was taken on in September of that year by Chris [coach] and Shirley Neal.  All club players trained at Talbot Combined School. 

*        Touring is the main attraction to the club and still is to this day, we have been to Malta, Germany, Belgium, Jersey, Guernsey, etc.

*        Won the Dorset County League - until it ceased.

*        Played the West Region League with early good results but due to a lack of funds and heavy travelling expenses, the Club withdrew.

*        Seniors always entered National Competitions around the country, with good results.

*        U21’s has always entered the Barclays Bank sponsored National Tournament, and competed at a very high level.

·        1986, Senior Club players entered by invitation from Poole League 1st Division. They finished in second place at their first attempt and in the latter years have gone on to win the League on many occasions.

·        1988, the U21’s were also entered in the Poole League Division 2 which they won and were promoted to Division 1.

*        A team was entered to play the Bournemouth League and worked their way up through the Divisions, eventually playing in the Premier League gaining several second places over the years.

·        1992, with the assistance of East Dorset District Council [EDDC] started the Junior Club section.  Training was held at Queen Elizabeth Leisure Centre.

·        1999, moved to Ferndown Middle School where we currently train [winter only].

*        The Seniors train at Canford School Sport throughout the year [indoors] and the Year 10s from the Junior section are now invited to train with the Senior players.  These young players are now representing the Club in the Poole League Division 2.

*        The Club have a policy to train their own Coaches and Umpires.  We have on average, five Coaches and six Umpires - this however is not enough to sustain a Club of our size, especially as we continue to grow in numbers due to its popularity, therefore, we would be looking to train more in the near future.  We can also boast that many of our players have or are currently playing for the Dorset County Squads and have the potential to go a lot further...

·        2002, In the spring of this year the club changed its name to CANFORD NETBALL CLUB, this year had many changes due to the large cash injection into the club….. this went a long way to see the club grow and put it back at the top of the league.

* since this time Canford Netball senior team has gone on to will the league each season

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History:

Progrip was formed in 1996, but were then called “Seven Up”.  Caroline Smith (now Pastecchia) and Jo Kelly had been playing for another team which had folded and so in order to keep playing decided to set up their own team.

Obviously the team has changed  since it started but there's still, Caroline Stedman, Caroline Pastecchia & Jo Kelly originally from the very first side.  Over the last couple of years Progrip brought a few new players in, one being Tanya Knowlton and as a team with Tanya in place, we just seem to have “clicked”, and had won some trophies & Tournaments!

Progrip started off in Division 8 and stayed there until 1998/9 when they gradually started to creep our way up to Division 4/5 where we are now, positioned up the top of the table.

In 1998 one of the players (Karen Cook) got sponsorship from a company called “Progrip” and so this is where and why the team is named.

2002 - 2003 Progrip one every match except one in the Winter league, won the VERSATILITY TOURNAMENT, 3rd in the the American Tournament and 1st in the Summer League........ Tanya left in the Summer of 2004 to go to Winchester University....

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