Bendigo Strikers will commemorate the Victorian Netball League’s First Nations Round with a specially designed netball uniform bib.
The Championship and 23 & Under teams will wear the specially designed bib tomorrow night at the State Netball Hockey Centre for Reconciliation Week.
Designer of the bib, Stephen Korp, is a Wamba Wemba man from Lake Boga who is living, working and raising his family on Djaara Country, with a passion for telling stories and connecting with culture through art and making artefacts.
“I’m honoured to be asked to design Bendigo Strikers first indigenous bib. Having the Strikers in Bendigo is such a great thing for our community. It was a pleasure to hear about the Strikers story and turn that into this design”, Stephen says.
The story behind the bib design includes a meeting circle in the middle that represents the Bendigo Strikers community, with 7 women sitting around the meeting circle that makes a netball team. Secondly, two smaller meeting circles representing both the Bendigo Strikers teams with the river lines making them all connect together. And finally, kangaroo feet on the outside represents the journey that the Bendigo community and board members had to jump and hurdle to join the league, 10 years in the making.
Bendigo Strikers Board Chair, Melinda Keighran, says she is proud of the bib design for First Nations round.
“This speaks to our great game, our fantastic region and most of all our history. We are proud to have such a meaningful connection to country”, Melinda says.
Bendigo strikers play Wilson Southern Saints at the State Netball Hockey Centre this Wednesday 29 May 2024. The championship will play at 7pm and 23 & Under plays at 8.30pm.
Bendigo Strikers have also announced their next home game at Red Energy Arena will be 23 June 2024 against fellow new licence holders, Western Warriors.
