The 2011 Canterbury Tactix season is the fourth year that the Canterbury Tactix are contesting the ANZ Championship

ANZ Championship

The ANZ Championship is the pre-eminent netball league in the world. The competition is held annually between April and July, comprising 69 matches played over 17 weeks. It is contested by ten teams, five from Australia and five from New Zealand...

, and the fourteenth year of their competitive history. Naming of their full roster for 2011 was delayed due to the 2010 Canterbury earthquake

2010 Canterbury earthquake

The 2010 Canterbury earthquake was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, which struck the South Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am on local time ....

. Their final roster included two new international players, Jamaican Kasey Evering

Kasey Evering

Kasey Evering is a Jamaican international netball player. Evering is primarily a defender at international level, although she also plays as a shooter in domestic competition....

 and former Silver Ferns

Silver Ferns

The New Zealand national netball team, commonly known as the Silver Ferns, represent New Zealand in international netball. The team take their nickname from the Silver Tree Fern , which is an iconic emblem for many New Zealand sports teams. The Silver Ferns were formed in 1938 as a representative...

 player Donna Wilkins

Donna Wilkins

Donna Wilkins is one of New Zealand's leading sportswomen, representing her country in both netball and basketball. She became married to Southland farmer Mike Wilkins on 17 March 2007...

. Helen Mahon-Stroud

Helen Mahon-Stroud

Helen Mahon-Stroud is a New Zealand netball coach. In 2008, Mahon-Stroud was appointed head coach of the Canterbury Tactix in the ANZ Championship. Canterbury finished in seventh place during the 2008 season, with five wins and eight losses. She has been retained as coach for the 2009...

 will coach the team with Julie Seymour

Julie Seymour

Julie Seymour, MNZM is a New Zealand netball coach, former international netball player and former representative middle distance runner. Seymour played for the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns, in 92 test matches spanning 16 years...

 as assistant coach, heading a revamped coaching structure announced in July 2010. Wilkins joined Maree Bowden

Maree Bowden

Maree Bowden is a New Zealand international netball player. Bowden played with the Canterbury Flames in the National Bank Cup from 1999–2007. She continued with the Canterbury franchise, which became the Canterbury Tactix, when the ANZ Championship began in 2008...

 as Tactix co-captains.

Transfers

2011 Tactix player movements
Gains	Positions	Former team
Kasey Evering Kasey Evering Kasey Evering is a Jamaican international netball player. Evering is primarily a defender at international level, although she also plays as a shooter in domestic competition....	GK, GD	New signing
Kiley Hikawai	GA, WA	New signing
Finau Pulu Finau Pulu Finau Pulu is a New Zealand netball player of Pacific Islander descent. In 2008, Pulu was signed to play in the ANZ Championship for the Northern Mystics, having previously played for the Northern Force in the National Bank Cup. In 2010, Pulu was one of only four players to remain in the Northern...	GD, WD	Northern Mystics Northern Mystics The Northern Mystics are a New Zealand netball team based in Auckland that currently compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The franchise was formed in 2007 as an amalgamation of two teams from the National Bank Cup – the Northern Force and the Auckland Diamonds – after the competition was...
Jo Trip	GK, GD	Promoted from training squad
Donna Wilkins Donna Wilkins Donna Wilkins is one of New Zealand's leading sportswomen, representing her country in both netball and basketball. She became married to Southland farmer Mike Wilkins on 17 March 2007...	GA, GS	Southern Steel Southern Steel The Southern Steel are a New Zealand netball team based in Invercargill that compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The franchise was formed as an amalgamation of two teams from the National Bank Cup, the Dunedin-based Otago Rebels and the Invercargill-based Southern Sting...  (2009)
Losses	Positions	New team
Hayley Crofts Hayley Crofts Hayley Crofts is a New Zealand netball player. In 2008, she was signed to play for the Central Pulse in the ANZ Championship. Much of the team was replaced after a winless 2008 season, with Crofts not being re-signed for the 2009 season...	WD, C	Not signed
Chelsea Pitman Chelsea Pitman Chelsea Pitman is an Australian netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing for the Queensland Firebirds.In 2010, Pitman played for the Canterbury Tactix playing at the Wing Attack position. However, in round 6 against the Mystics, Pitman suffered an ACL injury that ended her 2010...	GA, WA	Queensland Firebirds Queensland Firebirds The Queensland Firebirds are an Australian netball team based in Brisbane that currently compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The Firebirds were formed as one of the foundation teams of the Commonwealth Bank Trophy , previously the premier netball league in Australia, which was contested...
Ashleigh Smith	GS, GA	Not signed
Victoria Smith Victoria Smith Victoria Smith is a New Zealand netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing in 2011 for the Wellington based, Central Pulse team. She has previously played for the Canterbury Tactix in 2008, 2009 and 2010...	GD, GK	Central Pulse Central Pulse The Central Pulse are a New Zealand netball team based in Wellington that compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The Pulse represent several New Zealand regions in the North and South Islands, from East Cape in the north to Tasman and Marlborough in the south, and were formed as an...
Peta Stephens Peta Stephens Peta Stephens is an Australian netball player. Stephens played for the Queensland Firebirds in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy and in the ANZ Championship; in 2004, she played for the Melbourne Phoenix and in New Zealand for the Canterbury Flames...	GD, GK	Injured

Pre-season

Due to the condensed schedule, only one pre-season tournament has been confirmed for the 2011 season (as of November 2010). The Tactix will travel to Queenstown

Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown is a resort town in Otago in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island. It is built around an inlet called Queenstown Bay on Lake Wakatipu, a long thin Z-shaped lake formed by glacial processes, and has spectacular views of nearby mountains....

 to participate in a tournament hosted by the Southern Steel

Southern Steel

The Southern Steel are a New Zealand netball team based in Invercargill that compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The franchise was formed as an amalgamation of two teams from the National Bank Cup, the Dunedin-based Otago Rebels and the Invercargill-based Southern Sting...

, from 28–30 January. Both teams will be joined by the Queensland Firebirds and Central Pulse.

Summary

This season, the Tactix made changes to their squad and gained Kasey Evering (Jamaican international) and Donna Wilkins (out of retirement). Despite these changes, the Tactix lost their first five matches by nine goals or less. One of these matches included a draw after regulation time against the Magic. Their 17 match losing streak ended by defeating the Steel by 5 goals.

In round 10 against the Magic, Finau Pulu became the first player this season to be sent off court for persistent infringing late in the second quarter. This infringement lasted for the next three goals scored by either team. Despite having six players on court, the Tactix managed to score three goals in a row. This is the third send off in ANZ Championship history with the first happening to the Tactix side where former Tactix player Larissa Willcox got sent off in 2009 and Maria Tutaia from the Mystics got sent off in 2010.

Currently, the Tactix have lost Kasey Evering and Phillipa Finch due to injury.

Fixtures and results

Notes

• Colours:
• Home teams are listed left, away teams right.

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Round 1	NO MATCH

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Statistics

• As of Monday 18 April.

  Player
  	0	0	0	111	0	159	8	11	45	42
  	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
  	0	0	0	0	12	0	18	26	86	3
  	0	0	0	56	0	2	7	9	61	26
  	0	0	0	2	11	38	14	35	119	13
  	63	84	75.0	12	4	0	1	2	14	15
  	0	0	0	15	0	0	0	5	15	7
  	0	0	0	0	8	28	16	34	115	6
  	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3
  	0	0	0	2	0	23	5	11	95	14
  	157	202	77.7	85	5	77	0	1	16	37
  	0	0	0	0	3	4	5	5	23	1
  	306	341	89.7	33	13	176	3	13	24	34

  Statistics key
  GS	Goals scored	A	Assists	I	Intercepts
  GA	Goal attempts	R	Rebounds	D	Deflections
  G%	Goal percentage	CPR	Centre pass receives	P	Penalties
  = Competition leader				T	Turnovers conceded