A warm welcome to Pooraka Allstars Netball Club!

Pooraka Allstars Netball Club is a highly successful sporting entity, one of which is growing at an immensely rapid rate. Established in 1956, we have a rich & proud 69-year history of being run and governed by the help of our dedicated, hard-working & passionate committee members, coaches, players, umpires, volunteers and life members.

At Pooraka Netball Club we pride ourselves on being a fun & inclusive family-friendly netball community who strives to create & grow tomorrow’s next best generation of confident and competitive netballers via developing skills, promoting teamwork & displaying sportsmanship, both on and off the court.

Based in the north-eastern suburbs of South Australia, we are a Netball SA (Netball South Australia) affiliated club and actively field competitive teams of all ages & skill levels at the South Australian Districts Netball Association (SADNA) and Parafield Gardens Recreation Centre (PGRC) across all 12-months of the year, while also recently launching our Little Allstars Program for young, upcoming & aspiring netballers who aren’t quite old enough to take the court at a competitive level just yet.

Our sport does not have an “off-season”; we play two (2) seasons per competition year at both SADNA and PGRC, being Winter Season (April-September) & Summer Season (October-March) and only find ourselves having a maximum of 2-weeks break during the changeover of seasons before the following pre-season commences.

In the early years of the club’s founding, members of Pooraka Netball Club’s committee & volunteers would complete day-to-day running activities at our Quinlivan Road courts. On Saturday mornings, Pauline Grose (Life Member) and Joyce Harris would arrive at the courts with their BBQ and boiling pots to heat hot dogs for the club’s junior players, and anyone else with money and an appetite.

As funds were raised, the club decided to install court lighting to enable teams the luxury to practice of a night time. Assisted by Ken Harris, Malcom Grose erected scaffolding where each light pole had been installed so the electrician could could fix the globes and necessary cabling to power the lights.

Eventually, official matches were programmed to be played on our Quinlivan Road courts, and as the number of players increased, Joe Lindblom (Life Member) approached Salisbury Council to have a room built which would soon be used as Pooraka Netball Club’s canteen. Every week from then on, Pauline Grose & Joyce Harris would pay Campbell’s Cash & Carry a visit to load up their station wagon with soft drinks and confectionary to restock the canteen, which would be open to and for all whilst games were being played on on a Saturday.

In 1958 when the South Australian Districts Netball Association (SADNA) was founded, Pooraka Netball Club began to submit teams, and slowly fazed out holding official matches at the club’s Quinlivan Road courts, leaving them to strictly be used as the club’s training facility for competition teams.