2024 saw Kyabram field one of the youngest A-grade contingents you would have been likely to find anywhere.
A remarkably youthful side found little on-court success, but the Bombers’ project has received multiple booster shots ahead of a campaign looking more towards improving the win-loss ledger.
Kyabram pulled off one of the bigger moves in Goulburn Valley League netball this off-season with the acquisition of seasoned goaler Tamara Skinner from Shepparton United.
The red and black brigade, under co-coaches Rhi Hilton and Peter Hall for another year, wasn’t done adding valuable experience by a long shot.
Also along for the ride in 2025 will be well-versed midcourter Emma Quinn out of a successful Tatura system, as well as Merrigum defender Breanna Baker - herself already a Wilf Cox native through her current spell with Kyabram’s Goulburn Murray women’s cricket side.
It’s a season in which hope springs very much eternal for the westerners, seeking a return to the premiership glory which became almost routine for them throughout the 2010s.
Whether that immediately parlays itself into a genuine crack at September netball is hard to say given the need to generate newfound chemistry, and it may not be ‘top six or bust’ internally.
That said, Kyabram has unwrapped all the pieces necessary to escape the cellar in 2025 - now it’s time to assemble the end product.
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