{"id":436,"date":"2022-07-19T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T09:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christchurchladies.co.uk\/netball\/?post_type=news-item&#038;p=436"},"modified":"2022-09-27T10:34:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T09:34:13","slug":"christchurch-netball-club-celebrate-70-years","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/christchurchladies.co.uk\/netball\/news-item\/christchurch-netball-club-celebrate-70-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Christchurch Netball Club Celebrate 70 years!"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"436\" class=\"elementor elementor-436\" data-elementor-settings=\"{&quot;ha_cmc_init_switcher&quot;:&quot;no&quot;}\" data-elementor-post-type=\"news-item\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7f430ffb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7f430ffb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-15421854\" data-id=\"15421854\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ab1c050 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1ab1c050\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-438\" src=\"https:\/\/christchurchladies.co.uk\/netball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Almena-Jess1-162x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christchurchladies.co.uk\/netball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Almena-Jess1-162x300.jpg 162w, https:\/\/christchurchladies.co.uk\/netball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Almena-Jess1-552x1024.jpg 552w, https:\/\/christchurchladies.co.uk\/netball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/Almena-Jess1.jpg 688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>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\u2019s oldest netball clubs!<\/p>\n<p>Christchurch Ladies Netball Club\u00a0was founded by Almena Theobald in 1950, who continues as its chairman to this day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The club&#8217;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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>To mark seven decades of playing Almena\u00a0and club members past and present gathered to belatedly celebrate its big birthday at the Novotel after the pandemic\u00a0put paid to celebrations last year.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Almena is thrilled that the Ipswich club has been a part of so many women\u2019s lives, both in Suffolk and from further afield.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We were honoured to have Sheelagh Redpath as our guest of honour, who\u00a0is the first ever President for Netball East.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Almena added:\u00a0\u201cI look forward to Christchurch Ladies\u2019\u00a0Netball\u00a0Section\u2019s\u00a0continued growth and success.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"featured_media":437,"template":"","class_list":["post-436","news-item","type-news-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Christchurch Netball Club Celebrate 70 years! - Christchurch Ladies&#039; Netball Section<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/christchurchladies.co.uk\/netball\/news-item\/christchurch-netball-club-celebrate-70-years\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christchurch Netball Club Celebrate 70 years! - Christchurch Ladies&#039; Netball Section\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Christchurch ladies Netball section were thrilled to celebrate our 70 year anniversary. 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