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Netball is the most participated sport in all of Australia. When you narrow it down to a school environment, you can usually distinguish the girls who play netball to those who don’t. In this essay, I will be discussing how netball seems to have become more a group of girls rather than a sport.

Schools with specialist netball programs witness the differences between the girls who play netball and those who don’t. There are few exceptions, but the vast majority of the netballers are in the “popular” group. Girls who want to fit in with the “popular” girls may feel pressured to play netball. This could be a good turn for their health, but cloning themselves is unhealthy. Stereotypically, there seems to be a certain type of girl who plays netball- one who follows the crowd, wants to fit in and be like everyone else. You can sometimes tell if a girl plays netball just by the way she does her hair and makeup, generally all the other netballers look the same.

Another aspect that seems to be relatively common in netball games: is the gossiping about other players between quarters, or even...

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