1 week ago Teenager Gracie Smith has been included successful England's Roses programme for 2026-27 aft her breakout performances successful the Netball Super League.
The 17-year old, who is yet to play for the elder England side, has go a rising prima of the NSL since making her debut and winning the rubric arsenic a 16-year-old successful 2025.
She has played a further 12 matches for London Pulse this season.
She has been rewarded with a archetypal inclusion connected the Roses programme, which provides grooming and enactment to players, and is fundamentally the radical of players which volition signifier the ground of England squads passim the year.
The database of 21 names besides includes defenders Alice Harvey and Jayda Pechova, who instrumentality aft a twelvemonth successful the Future Roses programme, positive Ella Clark for the archetypal clip since 2023 aft impressing with Loughborough Lightning.
Four of the names included - Imogen Allison, Sasha Glasgow, Helen Housby and Fran Williams - play successful Australia, with the remainder based successful the UK.
Head manager Anna Stembridge said: "I'm delighted to stock the radical of athletes who volition marque up the full-time Roses programme for the twelvemonth ahead.
"I firmly judge that among this radical we person the talent, committedness and the method and tactical diverseness that volition alteration america to execute astatine the highest level successful the Commonwealth Games this summer, whilst besides gathering towards the Netball World Cup conscionable a twelvemonth aboriginal successful 2027."
England Netball has besides revamped its Future Roses programme successful the anticipation of amended preparing players for the elder side. It volition present beryllium known arsenic Roses A.
Roses Programme athletes: Halimat Adio (London Pulse), Imogen Allison (Queensland Firebirds, Australia) Jaz Brown (NIC Leeds Rhinos), Eleanor Cardwell (AO Manchester Thunder), Amy Carter (AO Manchester Thunder), Ella Clark (Loughborough Lightning), Funmi Fadoju (London Pulse), Sasha Glasgow (West Coast Fever, Australia), Alice Harvey (Loughborough Lightning), Helen Housby (New South Wales Swifts, Australia), Natalie Metcalf (AO Manchester Thunder), Berri Neil (Loughborough Lightning), Tash Pavelin (Nottingham Forest), Lois Pearson (AO Manchester Thunder) Jayda Pechova (Nottingham Forest), Izzi Phillips (London Mavericks), Alicia Scholes (London Pulse), Jess Shaw (Loughborough Lightning), Gracie Smith (London Pulse), Liv Tchine (London Pulse), Fran Williams (West Coast Fever, Australia)
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