Southern Sting
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| coach = {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Robyn Broughton]]
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| league = [[The National Bank Cup]]
| season = 2007
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The '''Southern Sting''' was a [[netball]] team based in [[Invercargill]], [[New Zealand]] that competed in [[The National Bank Cup]] competition.
The Southern Sting team won the National Bank Cup seven times and is the only team to have competed in all 10 of the finals of this competition.
In 2008, the Sting were merged with [[Otago Rebels]] to compete as the [[Southern Steel]] in the trans-tasman [[ANZ Championship]].
==Notable Players==
*[[Bernice Mene]] (Silver Ferns Captain)
*[[Lesley Rumball]] (Silver Ferns Captain)
*[[Adine Wilson]] (Silver Ferns Captain)
*[[Donna Wilkins]] (Silver Ferns Captain)
*[[Jenny Ferguson]] (New Zealand A Captain)
*[[Natalie Avellino]] (Australian Vice-Captain)
*[[Janine Topia]] (New Zealand A)
*[[Naomi Siddall]] (England Vice-Captain)
*[[Boulu Raboka]] (Fijian Captain)
*[[Megan Hutton]] (New Zealand A Captain)
*[[Daneka Wipiiti]] (Silver Ferns Squad)
*[[Liana Barrett-Chase]] (Silver Ferns Squad)
==2007 team==
*Natalie Avellino
*Sarah Barnes
*Liana Barrett-Chase
*Erika Burgess
*Hayley Crofts
*Jenny Ferguson
*Megan Hutton
*Donna Loffhagen
*Te Huinga Reo Selby-Rickit
*Wendy Telfer
*Adine Wilson
*Daneka Wipiiti
== Coach ==
Robyn Broughton has been the coach of the Southern Sting since its debut in 1998. She has won 7 out of the 10 titles of the competition and has also coached the New Zealand Silver Ferns and A Squad. She is the new coach of the [[ANZ Championships]] [[Southern Steel]].
==Competition record==
*2007- 1st
*2006- 2nd
*2005- 2nd
*2004- 1st
*2003- 1st
*2002- 1st
*2001- 1st
*2000- 1st
*1999- 1st
*1998- 2nd
==External links==
*[http://www.sting.co.nz/ Southern Sting official website]
*[http://www.netballnz.co.nz/default.aspx?s=nbank_team_sting Southern Sting] profile at [[Netball New Zealand]]
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