Vitality Roses Head Coach Jess Thirlby has selected a squad of 15 to represent England in the Vitality Netball Horizon Series in November 2024. Meanwhile a further ten athletes will travel to New Zealand to play in the FAST5 Netball World Series in Christchurch, New Zealand from 9-10 November whilst 12 athletes will form an England A squad to face Zimbabwe and Scotland behind closed doors.
Staged on 16 and 17 November at the AO Arena in Manchester and then a reverse leg on 25 and 26 November at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston, Jamaica, England will take on the Jamaican Sunshine Girls in a home and away format in what is set to be an incredible showcase of international netball between the world ranked two and four nations.
Don’t miss the chance to see your Taini Jamison Trophy Champions playing back on home soil against Jamaica. The Vitality Netball Horizon Series comes to Manchester’s AO Arena on 16 and 17 November, you can get tickets here.
14 of the squad from the Vitality Roses’ recent tour to Australia and New Zealand, which saw England defeat world number one Australia on home soil for only the third time ever and win the Taini Jamison Trophy against then world number two New Zealand in the first two test matches for the first time in history, have been named in the squad to face Jamaica. Meanwhile, Halimat Adio has also been named in the squad via the P3 route, by which athletes not able to be in the full time Vitality Roses programme due to work or academia can be considered for selection.