Malawi Queens on Wednesday morning were given a thrashing of 46-51 by Uganda’s She Cranes in their second match of the African Netball Championship in Lusaka, Zambia. The Queens defeat has dented their hopes of winning the continental competition for the first time since 2011 and Uganda are tipped as favourites to take the title they […]
Malawi Queens put up a good show at the start of the Africa Netball Championship with a 79 – 43 win against Zimbabwe in Lusaka, Zambia on Tuesday. Queens coach Griffin ‘Zagallo’ Saenda said he was pleased with the start which he said will boost their hopes of winning the continental competition for the first […]
Malawi Queens headcoach Griffin ‘Zagaro’ Saenda has finally named his final squad which will travel to Zambia to represent Malawi flag in the 2018 African Netball World Cup qualifiers slated for Lusaka, Zambia from August 13-18. Out of the 21 players which were invited into camp for preparations ahead of the competition two weeks ago Saenda […]
Malawi national netball team, the Queens survived an early scare from Sri Lanka to beat the visitors 71-51 in an international test match played Friday evening at College of Medicine indoor court. It was a laboured victory for sixth ranked Queens and the basket margin of 71-51 does not reflect the true picture of the match because […]
This is a pictorial of a burial ceremony of Emma Mzagada,, the former netball player diligently served the Malawi Queens as a top-notch shooter who won numerous individual awards, including the ‘Netball Player of the Year’ accolade on the MBC Entertainers of the Year Programme.- Photos by Arkangel Tembo
Malawi netball icon Mary Waya has described late Emma Mzagada, who died on Monday after a long illness, as the Queens’ pillar ever since 1995 when she started starring for the team. “From 1995, Emma was been a pillar in front of Queens,” Waya said. “She was one of our best shooters partnering myself, late Connis Mhone and the […]
Malawian netball superstar Mwawi Kumwenda will have surgery after breaking his right ankle, her Australia club Melbourne Vixens has said. The 28-year-old Malawian suffered a hyperextension of her left knee when she landed awkwardly during the third quarter of the Round 13 game of the Suncorp Super Netball League match against West Coast Fever on Saturday […]
Former Malawi Queens and and Thunder Queens (formerly MTL Queens) star Emma Mzagada has died at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre on Monday after a long illness. Mzagada diligently served the Malawi Queens as a top-notch shooter from 1995 to 2009, winning numerous individual awards including the ‘Netball Player of the Year’ accolade six […]
Netball Association of Malawi (NAM) officials have been told to be proactive in the way they are running the Association as evidence by poor showing of the Malawi National Netball team “the Queens” recently. Minister of Labour, Youth, Sports and Manpower Development, Francis Kasaila made the observation Sunday during the launch 2018 Mpico Gateway Netball […]
Parliamentary Women Caucus has asked the government to consider increasing budgetary allocation for Malawi national netball team the Queens for them to perform better in international competitions. Chairperson for the Caucus, Jessie Kabwila made the appeal on Sunday during the launch of the 2018 Mpico Gateway Mall Netball Challenge at Police ground in Mponela, Dowa. […]
Malawi national netball team have qualified automatically for the 2019 Liverpool Netball World Cup following an improvement on their International Netball Federation (INF) rankings released on July 1. According to reports, Malawi Queens gained more points from their performance at the last Commonwealth Games after beating New Zealand who were by then world’s number 2 on INF […]
Malawi netball exports in England Laurene Ngwira and Joyce Mvula on Saturday settled for contrasting fortunes during their Vitality Netball Super League matches when they were all given player-of-the-match awards in their resspectivd games. Ngwira picked her second best player accolade since moving to England following her brilliant performance in defence when she helped Team Northumbria […]
Malawi netball export in England, Laurene Ngwira had a grand game for Team Northumbria (TN) inspiring them to edge bottom side UWS Sirens 47-42 and named player of the match in the Vitality Superleague on Monday. “It was nice to win and I am enjoying my game here,” said Ngwira who made her debut for TN just […]
Despite Malawi not winning any medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia, Malawi Queens’ top shooter, Mwawi Kumwenda, retained the top scorer accolade while team-mate Takondwa Lwazi was named among top-five goal assists. Kumwenda claimed 254 baskets out of 274 attempts, representing a 92.7 percent scoring rate in six games. She […]
After a ooor start with defeats from England and Uganda, Malawi Queens have been on fire winning their remaining preliminary round games including a stunning upset win over New Zealand’s Silver Ferns on Sunday, but could not achieve thier hopes of a top-six finish at the on-going Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia despite beating Wales […]
Malawi national netball team has never beaten giants of world netball New Zealand but on Sunday the Queens stunned the Silver Ferns 57-53 at the Commonwealth Games being held at Gold Coast in Australia. It was a result that has embarrassed the Ferns prompting the media there to declare that the Queens have plunged the […]
Malawi’s fairytale run in the netball at the Commonwealth Games is hanging on by a thread, following a one-goal victory over Scotland that went down to the buzzer. Needing a win to stay in medal contention, the African side were ahead 51-49 with 27 seconds left on the clock when the Scots won back possession. […]
Malawi Queens stunned New Zealand when they produced a famous win 57-53 in their Pool B match at the Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast on Sunday eith goal-shooter Mwai Kumwenda the star with 41 goals. New Zealand appeared to be cruising at halftime, leading 32-25, but imploded in the third quarter, where they were outscored […]