Jamaicans dominate Aussie netball stats

JAMAICANS HAVE been all over the Suncorp Super Netball League statistics charts since the competition’s started a few weeks ago.

The fast-starting Jamaicans are being led, as are all players in the league, by the dominance of Jhaniele Fowler-Nembard.

Fowler-Nemhard, who has just come off a 61-goal performance for the West Coast Fever where they beat the New South wales Swifts 75-59, has 490.5 points to lead the Nissan Net Points category, as well as leading all scorers with 243 goals from just 248 attempts.

Another Jamaican in Romelda Aiken-George is also enjoying a good start, having scored 148 goals from 171 attempts and lies fourth on the goals aggregate list.

But where Aiken-George is dominant is in grabbing second chances. The tall, lanky goalshooter has so far been the most dominant player in terms of rebounding, keeping the ball alive for her team on 22 occasions to lead the league. Fowler-Nembhard is fifth in the category with 13 offensive rebounds.

Shanice Beckford has also been finding her footing, and been using Fowler-Nembhard’s dominance in the circle as fuel to ramp up her instances of downing two-point super shots. She has also been getting her team into the attacking third most consistently in the league, having received 86 centre passes to lead the league. Beckford’s teammate Alice Teague-Neeld and the Sunshine Coast Lightning’s Liz Watson have also received 86 centre passes.

Shamera Sterling-Humphrey is continuing to prove one of the league’s best defenders, lying third on the list with eight defensive rebounds, and going unmatched as far as deflections, 27, and interceptions, 15, go.

Latanya Wilson has joined Sterling-Humphrey at the Adelaide Thunderbirds to create a formidable defensive duo and lies fourth on the list of most deflections with 22 and second on the list of most intercepts with 14.