NETBALL'S A WOMEN'S SPORT NOT JUST

Men’s team see ongoing Nations Series as a platform to promote male version in S’pore

- Kimberly Kwek

Nigel Lim and his teammates have two goals for this week's men's netball Nations Series. A top-three finish at the Dec 4-9 tournament and challenging the stereotype that the game is just for women.

Netball may be largely a female dominated sport in Singapore but it is perceived differently elsewhere.

Co-captain Lim, who has been. playing since 2000, said: "When you tell people you are playing netball, they think that's just a girls' sport... Countries like Australia, New Zealand and England, they have the full support from men and it's growing.

"They are trying to get netball into the Olympics, so this is where we're working towards, helping promote it in Asia and Singapore to let people know that men also play netball."

The International Olympic Committee's emphasis on gender balance in its quadrennial Summer Games programme has made netball's push for inclusion a challenging one.