Christchurch ladies Netball section were thrilled to celebrate our 70 year anniversary. A Guinness World Record and generations of families passing through its ranks, it has been a busy 70 years for one of Suffolk’s oldest netball clubs!
Christchurch Ladies Netball Club was founded by Almena Theobald in 1950, who continues as its chairman to this day.
The club’s impressive history includes winning the Ipswich and District Netball league for 25 successive years between 1959 and 1983, earning it a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
To mark seven decades of playing Almena and club members past and present gathered to belatedly celebrate its big birthday at the Novotel after the pandemic put paid to celebrations last year.
Almena is thrilled that the Ipswich club has been a part of so many women’s lives, both in Suffolk and from further afield.
We were honoured to have Sheelagh Redpath as our guest of honour, who is the first ever President for Netball East.
Almena added: “I look forward to Christchurch Ladies’ Netball Section’s continued growth and success.”