Mimi Rossellin

籃網球 
1891年James Naismith在美國麻州春田發明了籃球運動並在美國散佈開來，但它的規則卻被一位住在紐奧良的體育老師誤解於是籃網球就誕生了，並且被散播到英國和很多其他國家。在澳洲，籃網球初時被定名為女子籃球，而後在比賽進行期間因衣著、皮鞋等所帶來諸多不便，致使修改和訂出一個適合女子的球類玩法。例如把比賽場地一開為三，沒有人可以運球前進等規則，最後更除去籃板，縮小籃框至只可容納足球般大小的球，並命名為籃網球 "NETBALL"。

History
Netball traces its roots to basketball. Basketball was devised in 1891 by James Naismith for his students in the School for Christian Workers (later called the YMCA). Female teachers got curious and started to formulate a version for girls. The outfits of women at this time hindered them from effectively executing important basketball moves such as running and dribbling, so the game had to be modified to accommodate these restrictions. Women's basketball, or  'netball'  was thus born.

 Netball was first played in England in 1895 at Madame Ostenburg's College and soon spread throughout Australia, the then-British colonies of Jamaica and Antigua, and indeed most British Commonwealth territories. It did not yet have hard-and-fast rules. So loose were the regulations, in fact, that some games were played by nine players in each team, while some were played with only five players in each. The nets used were also ineffective – they were not open at both ends, so after each goal was scored, the umpire had to retrieve the ball from the top of the post.

In 1895, Clara Baer, a gym teacher from New Orleans, asked Naismith for a copy of the basketball rules. Baer mistakenly identified Naismith's pencil markings showing the areas players should best patrol as the areas within which women players could move, and consequently introduced the 'zoning areas' we know today. This was the start of netball’s formalization. These zoning rules, along with many other provisions (such as elimination of the dribbling rule), were all included in the first draft of "Rules for Women’s Basketball." In 1901, this set of rules was ratified and netball officially became a competitive sport. However, it was several years before regular competitions were held. On the 6th June 1907 an exhibition of 'Net Ball' was organised between the 'Ladies' and 'Gentlemen' of The Regent Street Polytechnic as part of a garden party to celebrate the opening of their sports ground in Chiswick (West London). Poly Netball Club can trace an unbroken heritage back to this match and are therefore seen as the World's Oldest Netball Club.[2]

In 1960, representatives from England, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and The West Indies met to discuss standardising the rules of the sport. This led to the establishment of The International Federation of Women's Basketball and Netball (which later became the International Federation of Netball Associations). Formal rules were established at this inaugural meeting and it was decided to hold World Championship tournaments every four years. The first Netball World Championship was held in 1963 and was hosted by England. Since then there have been eleven more tournaments. Australia has dominated the World Tournaments, beating the other 11 teams competing in 1971, 1975, 1979, 1983, 1991, 1995 and 1999. In 2003, New Zealand finally broke the pattern and took home the gold. Fiji was scheduled to host the next World Netball Championship in July 2007, but was stripped of its hosting privileges as a result of the December 2006 coup.

New Zealand was the last country to adopt "netball" as the name for the sport in 1970.

In 1995 netball became a recognized Olympic sport, making its inclusion in future Olympics possible, and in turn has been included in the Commonwealth Games since then.