Jeremy De Friend is passionate about sport. Playing club football, martial arts & street dance. He studied sport sciences and practice at the University of Neuchâtel where he studied major sports, sport mechanics & fitness training. On graduating, he continued study in sport management at Birkbeck, University of London. The focus of his final academic research is sport for development. Jeremy is Jeunesse + Sport accredited in school sport, football & skiing. 

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Vanessa has worked in performance Netball since 2005 with Yorkshire Jets and Loughborough Lightning.  In the 2018/19 season, Vanessa set up Aspire Elite Netball, an independent performance programme. She volunteers for England Netball in many roles and is a regularly appointed tournament referee at national schools, clubs & paranetball events. Vanessa runs a Netball club with 16 teams playing at all levels from local district to northern league, from 6yrs to adult.

Bronwyn was born in New Zealand, moved to Switzerland in 2008 with her family. Growing up in a sporting mad nation – Bronwyn started playing netball at 7 years old and hasn’t stopped.  She is a founding member of Aubonne Netball Club, coach, umpire, player & a school netball coach. 

We are currently searching for an in-country Assistant Coach to join our Performance team. 

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Originally from the UK, Lauren moved to Zürich in early 2021 and quickly became a member of Zürich Netball later that year. Lauren has always enjoyed playing netball, playing since high school in the UK. She is passionate about the positive impact netball can bring to people, especially celebrating women and the community culture it brings. She has a degree in Psychology and Masters in Neuroscience, but has always had a passion for people, learning and technology and so is very excited to be a member of the committee. Lauren will be supported by Amy Porter from Nyon Netball.

Silvio Martinelli, a global Italian, has been in Geneva since 2007 working for the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB, & Malaria and he is a member of the international executive committee of Service Civil International, a global peace movement. Silvio is the proud father of Iris, a Swiss U17 national squad athlete. Silvio is a passionate cyclist, & loves most sport. An enthusiastic Netball supporter, he live-streamed the U17 European Championship last year in Wales.

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Helen is from the UK and has lived in Switzerland for over 20 years. She teaches biology and sports, exercise and health science at the International School of Lausanne. She played netball at school and university as well as helping to start Lausanne Netball Club. Helen represented Switzerland in the first ever Swiss Netball Open Team in 2012. She now enjoys umpiring and tutoring the C award course.