2015 Netball Superleague season

Overview

The 2015 Netball Superleague season was the tenth season of the Netball Superleague. It was announced prior to the start of the season that Netball Superleague fixtures would be played to a finish in the 2015 season, meaning that games can no longer be tied. This conformed with current international standards.^[1] If the scores are even after 60 minutes of play, the game will continue into extra-time consisting of two 7 minute halves. If the sides are still tied following extra-time, the game will continue until a team has moved ahead of the other, by two clear goals.

Broadcaster Sky Sports committed to a flexible schedule in all of their live broadcasts to ensure fans can watch entire games, including those that head into extra-time.^[2] The first round of fixtures started on Monday 26 January 2015, with a repeat of the previous season's Grand Final, and once again Manchester Thunder got the better of Surrey Storm.^[3]

The Manchester Thunder, Surrey Storm, Yorkshire Jets and Hertfordshire Mavericks secured the four play-off places, Manchester doing so by completing an unbeaten regular season, winning all fourteen games. However, Manchester suffered a shock defeat in the semi-finals in front of a club-record 4,000 fans at the Manchester Arena, losing 48-41 to the Mavericks. In the other semi-final, Surrey made it to their third final in four seasons with a 76-60 win over the Yorkshire Jets at Guildford's Surrey Sports Park.^[4]

In the third-place play-off, Manchester Thunder powered to victory over Yorkshire Jets, winning 55-49.^[5]

In the Grand Final, Surrey Storm beat Hertfordshire Mavericks, 56-39, at London's Copper Box Arena to win their first Superleague title.^[6] Pamela Cookey was crowned Player of the Match.^[7]

Teams

The following teams competed in the 2015 season:

Team	Base
Celtic Dragons	Cardiff, Wales
Yorkshire Jets	Yorkshire, England
Loughborough Lightning	Loughborough, Leicestershire
Hertfordshire Mavericks	Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Manchester Thunder	Manchester, Greater Manchester
Surrey Storm	Guildford, Surrey
Team Bath	Bath, Somerset
Team Northumbria	Newcastle, Tyne and Wear

League Table

Regular season

Round 1

Mon 26 Jan	Manchester Thunder	55–52	Surrey Storm	Manchester Thunderdome
19:45	Helen Housby  34/37 (92%) Kathryn Turner  21/25 (84%)	Report	Rachel Dunn  30/32 (94%) Pamela Cookey  22/25 (88%)

Round 2

Sat 7 Feb	Surrey Storm	74–51	Yorkshire Jets	Surrey Sports Park
19:00	Rachel Dunn  58/67 (87%) Pamela Cookey  16/20 (80%)	Report	Lottysha Cato  48/51 (94%) Natalie Haythornwaite  3/3 (100%)

Round 3

Mon 9 Feb	Loughborough Lightning	58–44	Celtic Dragons	Netball Centre, Loughborough University
19:30	Peace Proscovia  43/47 (91%) Maryka Holtzhausen  13/16 (81%) Vanessa Walker  2/2 (100%)	Report

Mon 9 Feb	Team Bath	42–56	Surrey Storm	Sports Training Village, University of Bath
19:45	Rosie Allison  36/41 (88%) Asha Francis  3/6 (50%) Rachel Shaw  3/5 (60%)	Report	Rachel Dunn  38/43 (88%) Pamela Cookey  18/19 (95%)

Round 4

Fri 13 Feb	Team Bath	34–51	Hertfordshire Mavericks	Sports Training Village, University of Bath
19:45	Rosie Allison  19/25 (76%) Asha Francis  8/10 (80%) Rachel Shaw  7/12 (58%)	Report	Sasha Corbin  27/30 (90%) Louisa Watson  24/27 (89%)

Fri 13 Feb	Yorkshire Jets	51–54	Manchester Thunder	Beckett University (Headingley Campus), Leeds
20:00		Report	Helen Housby  32/32 (100%) Eleanor Cardwell  10/13 (77%) Krista Enziano  8/10 (80%) Kathryn Turner  4/7 (57%)

Sat 14 Feb	Surrey Storm	66–49	Celtic Dragons	Surrey Sports Park
19:00	Rachel Dunn  41/46 (89%) Pamela Cookey  16/18 (89%) Kat Hayes  9/13 (69%)	Report	Chelsea Lewis  35/45 (78%) Cara Lea Moseley  8/11 (73%) Emma Thomas  6/7 (86%)

Mon 16 Feb	Team Northumbria	48–57	Loughborough Lightning	Sport Central, Newcastle
19:45		Report	Peace Proscovia  41/41 (100%)

Round 5

Sat 21 Feb	Hertfordshire Mavericks	61–35	Team Northumbria	Hertfordshire Sports Village
16:00	Louisa Watson  30/33 (91%)	Report

Round 6

Sat 28 Feb	Surrey Storm	69–35	Team Northumbria	Surrey Sports Park
20:00	Rachel Dunn  43/53 (81%) Pamela Cookey  20/22 (91%) Katie Harris  6/6 (100%)	Report	Jatjinda Toetsie Kambatuku  16/22 (73%) Caroline O'Hanlon  8/14 (57%) Ellie Smith  7/9 (78%) Kayley Moss  5/6 (83%)

Round 7

Fri 6 Mar	Team Bath	45–43	Loughborough Lightning	Sports Training Village, University of Bath
19:45	Rosie Allison  32/35 (91%) Asha Francis  13/17 (76%)	Report	Peace Proscovia  36/38 (95%) Vanessa Walker  5/5 (100%) Maryka Holtzhausen  2/3 (67%)

Sat 7 Mar	Surrey Storm	55–42	Hertfordshire Mavericks	Copper Box Arena, London
18:00	Rachel Dunn  36/38 (95%) Pamela Cookey  19/22 (86%)	Report	Louisa Watson  22/24 (92%) Kadeen Corbin  15/18 (83%) Sophie Hankin  4/7 (57%) Sarah East  1/2 (50%)

Round 8

Sat 14 Mar	Surrey Storm	47–58	Manchester Thunder	Surrey Sports Park
19:00	Rachel Dunn  29/37 (78%) Pamela Cookey  18/21 (86%)	Report	Helen Housby  39/40 (98%) Kathryn Turner  19/20 (95%)

Round 9

Tue 17 Mar	Surrey Storm	61–39	Team Bath	Surrey Sports Park
20:00	Rachel Dunn  41/50 (82%) Pamela Cookey  20/22 (91%)	Report	Rosie Allison  21/23 (91%) Asha Francis  9/14 (64%) Shaunagh Craig  7/9 (78%) Rachel Shaw  2/2 (100%)

Round 10

Round 11

Round 12

Sat 4 Apr	Surrey Storm	74–45	Loughborough Lightning	Surrey Sports Park
19:00	Rachel Dunn  46/56 (82%) Pamela Cookey  23/26 (88%) Katie Harris  5/6 (83%)	Report	Peace Proscovia  40/43 (93%) Flo Edwards  2/2 (100%) Vanessa Walker  2/2 (100%) Maryka Holtzhausen  1/1 (100%)

Round 13

Mon 6 Apr	Hertfordshire Mavericks	41–59	Surrey Storm	Hertfordshire Sports Village
14:00	Sarah East  25/30 (83%) Sophie Hankin  8/10 (80%) Louisa Watson  8/10 (80%)	Report	Rachel Dunn  30/43 (70%) Pamela Cookey  29/33 (88%)

Mon 6 Apr	Manchester Thunder	77–34	Team Northumbria	Manchester Thunderdome
17:00		Report	Jatjinda Toetsie Kambatuku  16/17 (94%)

Round 14

Sat 11 Apr	Loughborough Lightning	40–51	Manchester Thunder	Netball Centre, Loughborough University
18:00	Peace Proscovia  24/27 (89%) Maryka Holtzhausen  6/10 (60%) Vanessa Walker  2/3 (67%)	Report	Helen Housby  24/27 (89%) Krista Enziano  16/21 (76%) Kathryn Turner  8/11 (73%) Eleanor Cardwell  3/8 (38%)

Mon 13 Apr	Team Bath	50–34	Celtic Dragons	Sports Training Village, University of Bath
19:45	Shaunagh Craig  21/32 (66%) Asha Francis  15/22 (68%) Rosie Allison  14/16 (88%)	Report	Chelsea Lewis  27/38 (71%) Emma Thomas  7/10 (70%)

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Play-Offs

Semi-finals

Sat 18 Apr	Surrey Storm	76–60	Yorkshire Jets	Surrey Sports Park
16:10	Rachel Dunn  43/49 (88%) Pamela Cookey  33/38 (87%)	Report	Lottysha Cato  55/58 (95%) Natalie Haythornwaite  4/5 (80%) Nikki Smith  1/1 (100%)

Third place match

Final

Statistics

Individual Shooting

See also

• Netball in England
• Netball in Wales

References