\u201cI\u2019m so excited to join the West Coast Fever and take this opportunity to challenge myself, improve my game, and grow both as a player and as a person,\u201d Gordon said. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to learning from the coaches, experiencing the Aussie style of coaching, and pushing myself outside of my comfort zone. <\/p>\n
\u201cI think the roster we have is really exciting. Being able to feed someone like Jhaniele [Fowler-Nembhard] and play alongside diamonds like Alice [Teague-Neeld] and Sunday [Aryang] is something I\u2019m really looking forward to.\u201d<\/p>\n
West Coast Fever general manager Sara Francis-Bayman said the club is delighted to secure Gordon. <\/p>\n
\u201cMaddy Gordon is a world-class player, and she brings experience, speed and drive to our midcourt, which is extremely exciting,\u201d Francis-Bayman said.<\/p>\n
Maddy Gordon has signed a two-year deal with the West Coast Fever in Super Netball. Photo \/ Photosport<\/p>\n
\u201cHer performances at the Commonwealth Games and last season with the Firebirds highlight exactly what she can deliver at the highest level, and we are looking forward to seeing her out in front of the Green Army at RAC Arena.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gordon\u2019s news comes after she helped the Silver Ferns win gold at the Commonwealth Games<\/a> in Glasgow.<\/p>\n There is still no confirmed New Zealand domestic competition for next year and beyond.<\/p>\n Auckland FC investors Ali Williams and Anna Mowbray are in talks to privatise the league in 2028. They have also proposed a professional competition for next year<\/a> to help bridge the gap to full privatisation.<\/p>\n Netball New Zealand (NNZ) maintains it has multiple options available for next year, but the New Zealand Netball Players\u2019 Association<\/a> says Williams and Mowbray\u2019s proposal is the only professional option it is aware of.<\/p>\n NNZ has changed test eligibility rules<\/a> to allow overseas-based players to be available for Silver Ferns selection.<\/p>\n Last month, NNZ board chairman Alastair Carruthers encouraged athletes to take opportunities to play netball abroad.<\/p>\n \u201cAbsolutely, we understand and respect why a number will be looking at opportunities abroad,\u201d NNZ chief executive Jennah Wootten said.<\/p>\n \u201cMy focus is on making sure that what we do land on in terms of the form of our domestic competition in the future is attractive enough to compel many of those players to stay or indeed to return in the years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, the Herald revealed the ANZ Premiership attracted more than 1.05 million unique television viewers<\/a> and an average audience of 51,800, not including anyone who watched on TVNZ+, either live or on demand.<\/p>\n Nathan Limm<\/a> has been a journalist with Newstalk ZB and the NZ Herald since 2020. He covered the Netball World Cup in Cape Town in 2023, hosts The Big League Podcast<\/a> and commentates rugby and netball for Gold Sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m so excited to join the West Coast Fever and take this opportunity to challenge myself, improve my…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[155589,13381,6186,11586,3468,3544,33736,18161,283532,2740,40370,78898,70487,74205,16762,111,139,69,3654,7457,213,313,3807,102,80],"class_list":["post-575616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-allegiances","tag-captain","tag-changed","tag-coast","tag-deal","tag-exits","tag-fern","tag-fever","tag-firebirds","tag-former","tag-gordon","tag-inks","tag-joining","tag-maddy","tag-netball","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-queensland","tag-silver","tag-sports","tag-super","tag-west","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}