St Helens Bees Netball Club

🐝Match Day Reports🐝
U9 & U10 - awards sponsored by Burns and Reid

🤺🐝 WARRIOR BEES 🤺🐝 y5/6 div 1 🐝
Warriors 1st ever 7s game v Warrington diamonds in the 5/6 league. We settled well trailing 3-2 end q1. A few errors crept in & we lost out flow ending 7-3 q2. A quick change and q3 we came at it strong setting up a fab finish 11-10 end Q3. We dug deep, and worked hard to take the win 15-14. Awesome team effort.
OPOM - Betsy worked hard at Wa fab drives out and re-offers.
CPOM - Sam- confident shooting and strength shown today.

✂️🐝SCISSOR BEES ✂️🐝 y3/4 prem 🐝
A strong start to the winter season for s64cissor bees as they took on hawks. Great energy parterships and fun was on display and we led from the off. Excellent team work meant we sank 12 goals to take the win 12-2.
OPOM - Mya strong in attack super goals n feeds and great turn overs.
CPOM -Violet -played smart, led on court boxed out like a pro!

🌸🐝 FLOWER BEES 🌸🐝 Y5/6 Div 4 🐝
BYE

🐝Match Day Reports U7 & U8 🐝
awards sponsored by Burns and Reid

💜🐝NOVA BEES 🐝💜 y1/2 prem🐝
‘Wirral Gems minis’ sprang out with some well rehearsed set plays & took our little Novas by suprise, playing outside took them a moment to adjust. Some nuggets of lovely passages of play, we managed to keep possession for goal opportunities. Although the game wasnt in our favour, we managed to keep the pressure on their opposition & didn’t make it easy for them to take the win, contested every ball and opportunity. An unfortunate loss 0 - 7.
OPOM - Mae - held a strong defence creating lots of opportunities for interceptions, strong pocket drives for the backline passes, tracking arms over ball.
CPOM - Lily - picked up rebounds a plenty, protecting the circle, a wonderful combo with Mae in the defensive circle

⚡️🐝 LIGHTNING BEES⚡️🐝 Y1/2 prem🐝
A strong start to the Winter League. We came ready with fire in our bellies. Q1 started with a bang & our attack were straight onto it, moving the ball up the court fluently with some lovely passages of play, ending the quarter at 7-0. The girls seemed locked in then & the drive was there to take the win. The pairings were lovely, there were lots of inceptions made throughout and the girls dominated the game through the rest of the quarters taking a strong win of 21-0. The hunger for that win was clear today.
OPOM -Penny, strong in attack, passing & moving up the court @ securing 9 goals. Lovely partnership with Nancy.
CPOM -Esme -played well throughout, defending like a pro and providing lots of turnovers and securing 2 goals.

💚🐝 ORCHID BEES 💚🐝 year 3/4 div1 🐝
Walkover 20-0

👸🐝 ROYAL BEES 👸🐝 year 3/4 div 1 🐝
BYE

Bit late posting but here’s Thursdays superstars! Well done to you all for an amazing session! Some fantastic work on display! xx

🐝Player Of The Month Sponsorship Opportunity 🐝 WINTER LEAGUE 2026🐝

🐝FOR A ONE OFF PAYMENT OF JUST £100🐝

🐝We are looking for 6 local businesses who could sponsor our monthly player of the month trophies for Winter league 2026 for 2 different leagues for the first time! 🏆

🐝We want to expose as many of our amazing local business community as we can, hence why we are looking for a different business each month 🙌🏻

🐝The league runs from Sept 2026 to Feb 2027 and trophies will be for these months 🐝

🐝 We will advertise your business to our members, families, supporters and social media platforms…but also to the netball community too both in Merseyside, Cheshire and the North West 👍

🐝We have 12 teams entering the Winter league ….Your business will be on the plaques of the 12 trophies for that month 🐝

🐝 So if you are a local business/ company and you can help then please get in touch!!

🐝 If you know of a local business or company that may help them please tag away…. Bars, gyms, beauticians, cafes, constructions, motor trade, health, retail… the list is endless 🐝

🐝 Please DM if you can support the next generation of netballing superstars⭐️⭐️

Combined sessions last night due to coach availability but what a pleasure it was for the coaches to support more girls in their group!
Reception and year 1 merged and year 3 and 4 merged too! It was lovely to see them all mingle, chat, play in their small groups and learn off eachother!!
Well done to everyone who picked up a superstar certificate or a special recognition prize!!

Check our the incredible Xmas designs by the incredible Pens & Needles, one of our previous sponsors 🎅🏼🎄

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❤️The Vinny Lloyd Memorial Shield for 2026❤️

Vinny was my dad. The silver fox, the one line joker, the sports mad Liverpudlian, the adopted Tranmere supporter, but most of all my biggest supporter. My dad died in March 2024 but dementia took him away from us much earlier than this. That’s what hurts. I wish he’d have been able to remember…. Remember us all when we started this crazy journey together in 2021 to where we are now. He would have been so so proud of what we have created here in this little town for the girls of St Helens….

This year I had a player in my mind early on in the season because this girl oozes netball ….& she has grown as this year has gone on. She has been part of our club since its very beginning in 2021, & her journey with us has been nothing short of inspiring. It has often been said that netball helped rebuild her confidence following Covid, & since that time she has grown into a determined, self-assured & dedicated player, who others look up to and coaches love to coach.

Her ability on court has not gone unnoticed, with consistently positive feedback from opposition coaches & league umpires. She has received the highest number of OPOM awards this season & for the last two years also— a true reflection of her impact during games. She has also shown incredible ambition & courage, trialling independently for Merseyside County — the only player from the club to do so — as well as being selected as part of a small group to trial for Thunder.

Her leadership qualities set her apart. She leads by example every time she steps on court, showing focus, resilience & a relentless work ethic. She lifts those around her, offering encouragement, support & positivity to her teammates, & demonstrates maturity beyond her years in how she communicates & carries herself. This was clear when she was chosen to proudly captain her team at the ENG U11 Northern Cup, guiding & inspiring her teammates throughout the competition.

This athlete truly lives & breathes netball. She embodies everything it means to be a Bee — commitment, teamwork, respect, & passion for the game.

We are incredibly proud of this player & look forward to watching her continue

Our volunteer of the year is our vice chair, fundraising extraordinaire, level 2 coach and TM Nicola Cartwright 🐝 Nic has been with the bees since we started and is the absolute brains of the club, bringing her expertise in HR, wellbeing and business to our set up! But most importantly she is constantly looking for funding bids for us and in the last 3 years her hard work and commitment has secured over £17000 which has been put right back into our girls, our coaches and our club! Well done Nic and thank you 🙏🏻

Our club would be nothing without all of our amazing coaches! And we would be lost without them and@so grateful for all the hours they give to our club volunteering.

This year we asked our coaches to vote their 1st 2nd and 3rd place coaches and we used a points system to pick our runner up and our winner!

Massive well done to runner up coach Claire Cheng and winner jodiemariegaskell 🐝🐝

Very deserving winners and a great achievement to be voted by your peers 🏆🏆