Summary
Beccy Douglass is the North-East's biggest netball talent, but the region is about to lose her ( just as the game stands on the brink of an exciting new era. Luke Edwards reports.
It is hard to think of a sport which has had to battle harder against stereotypes and patronising attitudes than netball. A sport played almost solely by girls is inevitably going to struggle in a world where feminism and women's rights have had a considerable impact on society, but not enough to completely erase entrenched prejudices.See the full content of this document
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Now Netball Is Getting Its Own Superleague
"It has been hard for the sport to rid itself of old images," admits Beccy Douglass, a former Church High School Student in Jesmond, Newcastle and the North-East's only England international.
"There are people out there who still see it as noth...See the full content of this document
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