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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
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. The Caribbean team competed at the first
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in 1963, and are the only nation outside of
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and
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to have won a World Championship (in
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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

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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 ...