Australian Netball players "ruled out boycotting international games following Friday's release of the 2017 Diamonds fixture," according to James Buckley of the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD. The country's leading players last month "threatened to not represent Australia for the remainder of the year" after Anne-Marie Corboy was removed from the Netball Australia board and Kathryn Harby-Williams "failed in her bid to be re-elected." But the unanimous re-election of Paolina Hunt two weeks ago as NA chair was "welcomed by the Australian Netball Players' Association, and appears to have appeased disgruntled players who had also threatened industrial action and forming a breakaway league." Int'l netball will return to Australia in August. NSW Swifts and Diamonds player Paige Hadley said that her teammates had "every intention to fulfill their representative duties." She said, "As athletes, we just want to stick together and make this sport continually grow. ... We want women's sport to be chasing us but at the moment we just need to keep pushing higher boundaries and we'll get there" (SMH, 5/15).
