Magic tracking well and set for pre-season shootout
Julie Fitzgerald is pleased with her team’s pre-season progress as the Cold Power Magic head to Auckland for this weekend’s ANZ Championship Pre-Season Shootout.
Paula Griffin is joining the Cold Power Magic squad for the upcoming ANZ Championship as a replacement for Casey Kopua who announced her pregnancy late last year. The goal shoot/attack has played 74 ANZ Championship games, including two stints with Mystics and Pulse, and a season with the Steel.
Under its Cold Power brand, multinational corporation Henkel will be adding its support to the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic as the team’s new principal sponsor.
Offsetting the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic’s pleasing first preseason hit out against the NSW Swifts on Wednesday night, is the news that Aisha Bower has sustained a tear to the articular cartilage of her right knee.
WBOP Magic and NSW Swifts Stars to entertain in Te Awamutu
Media Release 28 January 2016
Close connections between the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic and New South Wales Swifts have paved the way for confirmation today of a preseason encounter between the two sides in Te Awamutu on Wednesday, 17 February at 6:00pm.
A Hamilton netball player has had a ‘magic’ experience, spending time shoe shopping with Kia Magic co-captain Casey Kopua as part of a Drive Sober campaign.
In a unique twist on the ‘one-club’ relationships that rarely occur in modern sport, Casey Kopua and Netball Waikato Bay of Plenty have further cemented their already long-term partnership with an open end to working together.
In a huge coup for Waikato Bay of Plenty netball, effectively the entire 2015 New Zealand Conference winning Kia Magic squad will return for next year’s ANZ Championship. The only difference sees defender Jo Trip heading on an OE. All the rest of this year’s squad, which featured 13 players due to Casey Kopua’s injury rehabilitation, will be back in 2016.
