The Baby Pearls is set to host the IBM Blaze Netball 21&U and the New South Wales Fijian 21&U teams in an exciting invitational tournament from 7–11 July 2025 at the Vodafone Arena, Suva. The exciting event will feature some of the top players from these two clubs in Australia playing against our Fiji Pearls extended squad. The tournament will be more than just a showcase of talent as it will serve as a crucial preparation platform for our Baby Pearls ahead of the Netball...

Netball Fiji development team continued their development clinic in Naitasiri over the weekend. Netball Fiji representatives Losalini Bainivalu and Yvonne Vaka organized a umpires refresher course and technical officials’ workshop Nabukaluka Primary School. Bainivalu is National umpire’s coordinator while Vaka is one of the top umpires in the country having achieved her New Zealand umpire badge.The program was organized to target schoolteachers within the Waidina cluster, a total of 16 teachers were trained and went through netball rules refresher and technical official scoring. Mrs. Bainivalu...

Netball Fiji is pleased to announce the 15-member Baby Pearls team for their upcoming trip to Townsville, Queensland, Australia. The team will depart tomorrow, Wednesday 23rd, to participate in Netball Queensland’s Ruby North competition. The competition is part of the Netball Queensland initiative aimed at providing elite netball opportunities for the finest athletes in the state's central and northern regions. Baby Pearls head coach Simone Nalatu knows that the competition will be crucial for the players to experience “different style of play and different opponents.”...

Fiji Men's invitational side played a total of ten round robin matches at the 2025 Australia Men’s and Mix Netball National Championships. At the end of the round robin pool matches, our invitational team finished in third place on the Reserve & U23 category behind Victoria U23 who was in first place and Queensland U23 in second place. However, Fiji Men’s Invitational did not advance to the semifinals, as the team was an invitational side and, according to the championship’s terms of participation, was not...

The National 21&U 35-member squad took part in a one-week training camp last week under the guidance of head coach Simone Nalatu, specialist coach Joanne Morgan and assistance coach Vaiti Waqatabu. Recently, the team had been working on court skills training with assistance coach and former Fiji Pearls player Vaiti Waqatabu. Coach Nalatu is working closely with Vaiti in identifying key areas that all players are working on. Nalatu said that the 35-member selection was based on the ability of each player to execute under...