{"id":63366,"date":"2025-03-13T10:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T10:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/?p=63366"},"modified":"2025-03-13T11:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T11:56:22","slug":"sheffield-hosts-university-netball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shefnews.co.uk\/index.php\/2025\/03\/13\/sheffield-hosts-university-netball-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheffield hosts university netball tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Universities came together on international women&#8217;s day for a netball tournament at Ponds Forge.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The tournament was attended by the universities Derby, Nottingham, Hull and both Sheffield universities.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nottingham came out on top, beating the University of Sheffield in the final.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The day began at 10am and concluded with a raffle, prizes included amazon vouchers and BarOne bar tabs.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Event Organiser Janna Holtby said, \u201cI think it&#8217;s really important because most development teams don\u2019t end up playing people their own age they typically play in local leagues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheffield has recently become a hub for many netball events, having also hosted the first Netball Super Cup at the Utilita Arena on Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Netball Video\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/W8M3jolI0dM?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch: Universities clash at Pond&#8217;s Forge tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":63402,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1196,26],"tags":[1684,15,38,708,1685,131,40],"class_list":["post-63366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-front-page-highlights","category-sport","tag-netball","tag-news","tag-sheffield","tag-sheffieldhallam","tag-sheffielduniversity","tag-south-yorkshire","tag-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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