Women sport news

Four of England’s most promising U21 netballers have been called up to join the national squad in camp ahead of the forthcoming Co-operative International Netball Test series between England and Malawi, which takes place from 14-18 April 2008 in Sheffield, Coventry and London’s Wembley Arena.

The Netherlands team has won the Youth Talent World Cup (U16), held on April 5th-6th in Schijndel, Netherlands. 10 Countries participated in this year's edition of the Youth Talent World Cup.

Lindsay Davenport beat Agnes Szavay in a tight two-setter to set up a blockbuster semifinal encounter against Maria Sharapova at the $600,000 Bausch & Lomb Championships on Friday.

England Women will get the chance to take on their arch rivals New Zealand when they compete for sevens glory in a one off fixture in the Emirates Airline London Sevens on May 25th at Twickenham.

Local surfer Claire Bevilacqua (City Beach, WA) was dominant in her early morning heat and again later in the day, progressing through to the Quarter Finals. photo drugaware.com

Having made their final departure preparations this morning in pouring rain­ a Hawaiian blessing, according to the Commodore of Hawaii Yacht Club ­westernaustralia2011.com and Durban 2010 and Beyond left Honolulu this afternoon to rejoin the Clipper 07-08 Round the World Yacht Race fleet on the race to Santa Cruz. photo Heather Ewing/onEdition

THE Malaysian Government has today formally shelved plans to develop a 490 million Ringgit (£78.40 million)training site in London to help prepare its athletes for the 2012 Olympics.

Two brilliant intercepts in the dying minutes of the 21/U grand final set-up NSW’s thrilling one-goal victory over Victoria, 41-40 at the Athlete’s Foot National Netball Championships in Perth.

The rising stars of Australian netball have been announced in the Australian 21/U Squad, following the completion of The Athlete’s Foot National Netball Championships.

The National Women's Football Association will be kicking off its 8th season on April 19, 2008. The league which started out in 2000 with two teams now has 35 teams playing this season. Teams are located around the United States from Maine to California. This season many new teams will put their skills to the test.

Ten top women’s rugby clubs from across the country will be hoping to end their season with some silverware this weekend when they contest the RFUW National Cup Finals Day on Sunday April 13th at Lichfield RFC.

The FA has been shortlisted for the Sport Industry Awards for its work in transforming perceptions of Women's and Girls' Football. photo FA

England’s women shone again on the second day of The Ashes match at Moonah Links in Victoria – but they couldn’t prevent an Australian victory. photo EWGA

Rolex Rankings number one Lorena Ochoa (35-31) and Song-Hee Kim (34-32) each fired 7-under-par 66 to tie for the lead following the first round of play at the Corona Championship. photo Seoulsisters.com

FIBA is happy to announce the launch of www.olympicbasketball.fiba.com, a website designed to provide with extensive and unprecedented coverage of the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournaments for Men and Women and of both Beijing 2008 Olympic Basketball Tournaments.

Becky Hammon has no hard feelings against the United States after failing to ever make their national team.

LUANDA (FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women) - Four young players and a newly-appointed coach will be on show for Angola when they start their preparations for the FIBA Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Women next week in Luanda. photo FIBA

As competition rolls through the fourth day of heats at the Drug Aware Pro Margaret River presented by O’Neill, the eyes of the surfing world are focused on Surfers Point for what could be the biggest and best waves seen in competition surf in Australia. photo drugawarepro.com

Jennifer Abel of Laval, Que., and Emma Friesen of Vancouver finished second in their respective semifinal heats on Friday to advance to the women’s three-metre springboard final at the third stop on the FINA Grand Prix diving circuit. photo diving.ca

At the close of this years sliding season, 2,217 test and training runs were taken on the new Whistler Sliding Centre track. Taking the majority of these first runs was the Canadian bobsleigh, luge and skeleton teams, who really took advantage of the first Canadian Team Training Camps at The Whistler Sliding Centre.

Following on the heels of its successful seven-week 2008 festival, the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad is well on its way to developing the 2009 program. An open call for artists’ proposals for Cultural Olympiad 2009 is now underway and organizers today announced the first two major international events for Cultural Olympiad 2009.

Hundreds of British passport holders invaded the Swiss Alps last week for the Swatch TTR 3-Star British Snowboarding Championships.

As one of the few competitions left on the 07/08 Tour, the Swatch TTR 3-Star Norwegian Championships took place this past weekend attracting incredible Norwegian riders who competed in both Halfpipe and Slopestyle formats. © - Olav Stubberud / Thorso

The Swatch TTR 3-Star USASA Nationals went down this past weekend in Colorado with a multitude of female snowboarders from all over the United States competing in Slopestyle and Halfpipe for 550 TTR ranking points and portions of the $50 000 USD prize purse. © - Jason Toutolmin / Cat Leonaitis

More than 600 adult skaters from around the country will compete April 9-12 in the 14th annual U.S. Adult Figure Skating Championships at the historic Lake Placid Olympic Arena in Lake Placid, N.Y.

LONDON 2012 is having a major effect on the sports jobs market and how sports bodies operate, according to the head of a leading recruitment company.