The Trinidad and Tobago national netball team, known as the Calypso Girls, represent
Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, is the southernmost island country in the Caribbean, comprising the main islands of Trinidad and Tobago, along with several List of islands of Trinidad and Tobago, smaller i ...
in international
netball
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. The Caribbean team competed at the first
World Netball Championships
The Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship organised by World Netball, inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australia national netball team and the New ...
in 1963, and are the only nation outside of
Australia
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and
New Zealand
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to have won a World Championship (in
1979
Events
January
* January 1
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). Throughout the mid-1970s and 1980s the Calypso Girls were a dominant force in international netball, but since the early 1990s the team have become less competitive.
Players
2023 Calypso Girls Netball World Cup Team
Competitive history
See also
*
Netball in Trinidad and Tobago
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Trinidad And Tobago National Netball Team
National netball teams of the Americas
Netball in Trinidad and Tobago
Netball
Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own. It is one of a ...