Netball Australia recognises growing criticism of the game's 'whiteness', with just one Indigenous player for the last two years | sarah_keoghan
Netball Australia chief executive Marne Fechner admits netball's pathways fail to nurture Indigenous athletes, with a full review into the sport's lack of diversity set to be delivered in October.
"Participation rates sit at around 4 per cent of our netball community, which is great as it means we are sitting on par in term of population," Fechner said. "But what we are not seeing is those athletes coming through the system."We've made a commitment to Sharon [Finnan-White] and Marcia [Ella-Duncan] that we are not comfortable with the fact we haven't seen Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Diamonds for a while ... we want it to be better.
"What is it in our high-performance pathways that obviously isn't nurturing and providing an opportunity for Indigenous athletes to thrive?"
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