Today (Friday 5 April 2019) Kyra Jones, Celtic Dragons centre, has announced that she will be retiring from Superleague netball as of the end of the season. Jones has been a Celtic Dragons player since the 2009/10 season, spending her whole Superleague career with the Welsh franchise, with the exception of 2015 when she spent…
Celtic Dragons is pleased to announce that its popular netball masterclasses will return for the Easter holidays on Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 April. The masterclasses, taking place in Sport Wales, Cardiff this Easter break will be run by two of Celtic Dragons most exciting players: Vice-Captain Kalifa McCollin from Trinidad & Tobago and GK Stacian…
Celtic Dragons 52 Severn Stars 53 It was not the best of starts for Celtic Dragons as the team was made to make a very early substitution with wing-attack Suzy Drane seemingly having suffered a calf pull in the warm-up. Her very able deputy was none other than Bethan Dyke who immediately set about darting…
Celtic Dragons is pleased to announce the return of the successful ‘Celtic Clash’ fixture at Cardiff Metropolitan University for a second year. Cardiff Metropolitan University, already the official training home for Celtic Dragons, will be the venue for Celtic Dragons v Strathclyde Sirens on Saturday 13 April at 4pm. The game will take place in…
Celtic Dragons 62 London Pulse 51 It was a frantic and scrappy first quarter for both sides at the Sport Wales National Centre as Celtic Dragons took on London Pulse in Round 11. Dragons, looking to bag their first home win of 2019 were aiming to replicate their thumping 67-40 win at the Copperbox earlier…
Celtic Dragons 57 Loughborough Lightning 70 Celtic Dragons’ best hopes of a home victory so far in 2019 went up in flames by the third quarter as Loughborough Lightning proved the more accurate side in Round 9 of the Superleague. After home games against Mavericks, Wasps and Thunder, there was a sense of optimism that…
Surrey Storm: 46 Celtic Dragons: 48 Celtic Dragons hit the road once again for Round 8 of VNSL 2019 looking to re-gain momentum after a string of tough home matches as Tania Hoffman came up against her former franchise, Surrey Storm. It was a calamitous start for the hosts as centre pass after centre pass…
It was a frantic start from both teams in Round 7 of the Vitality Netball Superleague as both sides made basic errors off their own centre pass in the first few minutes of the contest. This made for an exciting opener as both teams kept on one another’s toes. Suzy Drane was in flying form…
Celtic Dragons: 46 Wasps Netball: 58 Celtic Dragons treated a sell-out Sport Wales National Centre crowd to an end-to-end arm wrestle with reigning Vitality Netball Superleague champions Wasps, before succumbing to the visiting side’s ability to seamlessly rotate off the bench in the latter stages of the match. The first quarter saw Celtic Dragons make…
As Wales’ representatives in the Vitality Netball Superleague, we showcase some of the best talent in Welsh and international netball to netball fans across the country. As well as training hard off-court and striving to climb the league table on court, we are also very passionate about helping to develop the next generation of netballers…