Andrew Nikolic (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We have got quite a few world champions in Launceston and I would like to tell the House about the most recent world record holders from my home town. They are the members of the Generation Netball Club who compete in the Northern Tasmanian Netball Association, of which I am the proud patron. The Generation Netball Club celebrated its 20th Anniversary this year, and two of its members, Jordyn Becker and Sarah Stuart, decided that a good way of promoting the club would be to do something really big. They decided to try and set a world record for the longest continuous netball game and spent months organising players, umpires, volunteers and spectators for the event. They discovered that the Guinness World Record for this category was 61 hours, set in Canada in 2011.

On Thursday 9 July 2015, the members, families and supporters of the Generation Netball Club gathered at the Scotch Oakburn College gym for the world record attempt. As patron, I was proud to attend the start of the attempt and then, 72 hours later, delighted at their success in breaking the record by 11 hours. It was a wonderful way for the Generation Netball Club to celebrate their 20th anniversary and to focus the attention of our community on their talented netballers, committed administrators and supporters. I congratulate everyone connected with this amazing achievement. And the final score was 3,772 goals to 3,603.