Loughborough Lightning is an English netball team based at

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, when L ...

. Their senior team plays in the

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. In 2005–06 they were founder members of the league. They also enter under-19 and under-21 teams in the National Performance League. Using the name Loughborough Students, Loughborough University also enter teams in intervarsity leagues organised by

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. Together with the

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team and the

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team, the netball team is one of three women's sports teams based at Loughborough University that use the Loughborough Lightning name.

History

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Loughborough Lightning were named as the

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franchise in the new

. Together with

Brunel Hurricanes Surrey Storm is an English netball team based at the University of Surrey. Their senior team plays in the Netball Superleague. Between 2001 and 2005 they played in the Super Cup as London Hurricanes. After forming a partnership with Brunel U ...

Celtic Dragons Celtic Dragons are a Welsh netball team based in Cardiff. Their senior team plays in the Netball Superleague. In 2005–06 they were founder members of the league. Their best performance in the Superleague came in 2013 when they finished as r ...

Leeds Carnegie Leeds Carnegie was a brand name used by several sports teams associated with the Carnegie School of Physical Education, now part of Leeds Beckett University. These include: Current * Leeds Carnegie Handball Club Changed name * Leeds Carnegie ...

Galleria Mavericks Saracens Mavericks is an English netball team based at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield. Their senior team plays in the Netball Superleague. In 2005–06 they were founder members of the league. They were Superleague champions in ...

, Northern Thunder,

Team Bath TeamBath is the University of Bath's sporting organisation. In addition to entering teams in BUCS intervarsity competitions, TeamBath has also entered teams in national leagues and competitions. Team Bath F.C. reached the first round proper of t ...

and Team Northumbria, Lightning were founder members of the league.

Senior finals

Netball Superleague Grand Finals

Loughborough Lightning made their

Grand Final debut in 2007–08.

Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship

In 2017 Loughborough Lightning won the inaugural British Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship.

Home venue

Loughborough Lightning play their home games at the Sir David Wallace Sports Centre at

Notable players

2023 squad

Internationals

; ; * Niamh Cooper *

Michelle Drayne Michelle Drayne (born 22 September 1988) is a Northern Ireland netball international and a former Antrim ladies' Gaelic footballer. She represented Northern Ireland at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2019 Netball World Cup. She ...

* Michelle Magee * Oonagh McCulloch ; *

Shamera Sterling Shamera Sterling (born 21 October 1995) is a Jamaican netball player. She was part of the Jamaican squad that won bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Earlier that year she was signed by Loughborough Lightning in the Netball Superleague. Aft ...

* Vanessa Walker ; *

Ella Gibbons Ella Gibbons (born 24 November 1994) is a Scottish netball player. She was selected to represent the Scotland netball team at the 2019 Netball World Cup The 2019 Netball World Cup (also known as the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup for sponso ...

; * Maryka Holtzhausen *

Phumza Maweni Phumza Maweni (born September 4, 1984) is a South African netball player in the Netball Superleague in the UK, representing Team Bath (netball), Team Bath Netball. Maweni was raised in Cala, Eastern Cape, Cala, in the Eastern Cape of South Afric ...

Renske Stoltz Renske Stoltz is a South African netball player. Early life Stoltz was born in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga before shifting with her family to Rustenburg, North West (South African province), North West. She has played netball for the past seventeen ...

; * Mary Cholhok Nuba *

Peace Proscovia Peace Proscovia Drajole Agondua (born 1 November 1989), commonly known as Peace Proscovia and nicknamed "Warid Tower", is a professional Ugandan netball player for Surrey Storm and the current captain of the Uganda national team. She began he ...

; * Rebecca James ; *

Adelaide Muskwe Adelaide Thandeke Muskwe (born 21 August 1998) is a Zimbabwean netball player who represents Zimbabwe national netball team, Zimbabwe internationally and plays in the positions of goal defense and wing defense. Life Muske and her twin brother ...

Head coaches

Honours

** ''Runners up'': 2007–08,

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

2022 File:2022 collage V1.png, Clockwise, from top left: Road junction at Yamato-Saidaiji Station several hours after the assassination of Shinzo Abe; 2022 Sri Lankan protests, Anti-government protest in Sri Lanka in front of the Presidential Secretari ...

: 4 ** ''Winners'':

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

: 1 * British Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship ** ''Winners'': 2017, 2019: 2

References

External links

Loughborough Lightning on Facebook

Loughborough Students Netball Club on Facebook

Loughborough Lightning on Twitter

Loughborough Students Netball Club on Twitter
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