Premium Content FANTASTIC team bonding and attending an Anzac Day service after a powerful team performance. The USQ Jets benefited greatly from sharing time together on and off the court for their latest Hart Sapphire Series match in Townsville. The Jets beat the Northern Rays 67-34 on Saturday after an early morning start flying north. Head coach Tracey Jeanes-Fraser was pleased with the team s performance given the extra travel demands. It was a long trip but a good trip, she said, returning to Brisbane at 1.30pm on Sunday. It was a long turnaround but otherwise a good result, good team bonding.
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Subscriber only FOUR valuable newcomers, a core of returning experience and added motivation having made last year s grand final. The USQ Ipswich Jets are focused on success preparing to launch their 2021 Hart Sapphire Series campaign against the Bull Sharks at Morayfield on Sunday. Having been head coach since the Jets were formed in 2019, Tracey Jeanes-Fraser has high expectations in Queensland s premier netball competition. It s feeling like it s a progression for us and we are very confident that we will be in that grand final again this year as long as we are ticking all those boxes and prepared to extend ourselves both as coaches and as well as athletes, she said.
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BUOYED by some positive club developments, Richard Hughes hopes to put the laptop away and enjoy a short Christmas break.
After what he describes as âa crazy yearââ due to COVID, the Ipswich Jets CEO deserves that opportunity, along with other key sports decision-makers in the city.
Although the Jets were unable to complete an Intrust Super Cup state competition, the clubâs growing netball franchise continued to achieve pleasing success.
A year after the Jets Rubies made the grand final in their inaugural second tier Netball Queensland competition season, the Ipswich clubâs top grade Sapphires achieved the same feat this season.