Matibini: netball�s exciting prospect

After receiving the prestigious MVP award, she said her focus is now to achieve more at the 2017 youth netball world cup that Botswana will host. “It will be an overwhelming achievement to win both for the team and for myself in the home ground,” she said.

“I can’t wait for the world cup next year,” she said. Matibini began her netball career in 2008 at a tender age of 10, while a standard six pupil at Monarch Primary School here. In the same year, she joined TASC netball development side. In 2013 at 15, she broke into the TASC senior team and played regularly for the Tango girls in the 2013 My Spar League. She carried the experience to school where her prowess earned her a selection for Botswana Integrated Sport Association (BISA).