Sunshine Girls progressing well

With less than a month remaining before the start of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland, head coach of Jamaica's national senior netball team, Sasher-Gaye Henry-Wright, says the Sunshine Girls are progressing well, as they aim to repeat their historic silver-medal performance from four years ago.

The Commonwealth Games will be held from July 23 to August 2, with Jamaica hoping to build on their best-ever finish at the previous edition in Birmingham, England, where they captured a historic silver medal.

Henry-Wright noted that while the full squad is not yet together, the local-based players have been working tirelessly on all aspects of their game ahead of a final training camp in Durham, England, where they will be joined by the overseas-based players.

"The team is in full gear going forward but we do not have our full team here yet. However, we are pushing hard in terms of our training, especially with our strength and conditioning and also our tactical plays," Henry-Wright said. 

"Honestly, we are less than a month away from the Commonwealth Games and we have a training camp in Durham. Our local players will meet up with our overseas players because Netball Jamaica decided that we needed this camp so that we can go deeper into our training and for the girls to become more familiar with each other. Our preparations have been going extremely well so far," she said. 

Henry-Wright added that, although there is still work to be done in the attacking department, she is encouraged by the progress being made, particularly with the new combinations developing in the shooting circle.

"In our attack, we still have a little bit more to do but I am pleased with our attack because we have different combinations now in the shooting area here in Jamaica. So we are working hard to get those combinations right and our tactical plays right," she said. 

"We have also been working on our defence-to-attack transition, maintaining control, being disciplined, and feeding from the circle edge. The players are responding well to the training and the trainers, so I am pleased with that."