The city college's netball pride is on a high this week with news of national successes for both teams and a trio of individual stars.

While the city college's Netball Academy team was battling it out in the semi finals of the National Schools Netball competition in Bournemouth last week, three of their individual players were returning from a challenging weekend in Newcastle where, as part of the British Colleges Netball Squad, they beat the National Talent league team 21 – 15.

Emily Steer, Kate Gardiner and Yasmin Hodge-England have been selected in the final British Colleges Netball trial beating players from all ten national regions, and are now involved in training weekends away as well as matches against Northern Ireland and finally a tour in Gibraltar in 2013.

“This is a massive achievement as only 18 players from across the country get a place” said Chris Wall, Sports Academy Manager “We have had players before from the college on the netball national team but to have three in the same year is outstanding – so we're very proud. This is down to the consistent hard work by all the players and coaches in the College working together to get the players to this high standard.”

The Netball Academy team, meanwhile, is riding high following their success in the national semis, beating Hartpury College and Millfield School and are now off to Basildon in March in the National Schools Netball final play offs. Both 1st and 2nd Netball teams remain unbeaten in their British Colleges league competitions.