Stories by Bridget Tunnicliffe

The Sunshine Girls are ringing in players to ensure the series against the Silver Ferns goes ahead, including former Jamaican international Carla Borrego.

RNZ understands it is highly unlikely the five remaining members of the Jamaican team will join their team-mates in New Zealand, putting the series with the Silver Ferns into disarray.

The Jamaican side named to meet the Silver Ferns in a three Test series starting this Saturday, will be missing several of its stars.

To say the words "I'm not going to be coming to the Commonwealth Games" were some of the hardest White Fern Lauren Down has ever spoken.

Ameliaranne Ekenasio has not played for the Silver Ferns in 18 months, but has won the captaincy role back, while Gina Crampton has dropped to vice-captain.

Dame Noeline Taurua has started to think about her pathway after her Silver Ferns' coaching tenure ends and it could well involve more coaching.

Squash star Joelle King helped carry the New Zealand flag in the opening ceremony and she's helped win the country's final medal, a gold at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.

The Silver Ferns' coach says she saw a mental shift in her team when they won bronze at the Commonwealth Games, beating England 55-48.

Silver Ferns' coach Dame Noeline Taurua says her side simply weren't good enough against a red hot Jamaica, who could go all the way in Birmingham.

Some of the Silver Ferns players are still learning on the job and they're about to go up against England who boast around 900 Test caps.

The New Zealand women's 4000m Team Pursuit track cycling team is in jeopardy at the Commonwealth Games with rider Ally Wollaston all but ruled out.

New Zealand Swimming coach Gary Hollywood says all the science shows that six years is the magic number for a coach and athlete partnership.

Sports reporter Bridget Tunnicliffe talks to netball experts from England, Australia and New Zealand, days out from the start of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

One New Zealand athlete is in isolation in Birmingham days out from the Commonwealth Games but chef de mission Nigel Avery says the team is in a good position overall.

Hurling themselves in the air has never been a foreign concept for New Zealand's two Birmingham-bound pole vaulters.

Don't be fooled by the big smile - weightlifter David Liti gets nervous when he walks out to the stage and doesn't mind admitting he's feeling pressure ahead of his second Commonwealth Games.

If a few more things had gone Kayla Johnson's way, she could well have clocked up 100 Tests for the Silver Ferns by now.

Silver Ferns' coach Dame Noeline Taurua is pleased her side is going to face a Mixed Invitational team next week, which will include two former Australian Diamonds.

Welcome to a new era of the Silver Ferns, where an athlete can be named the player of the year one year and be left out the next.

Kate Heffernan is poised to debut for the Silver Ferns in Birmingham with a 12-strong team announced for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Over the next four days 27 players will trial for a spot in the Silver Ferns' Commonwealth Games team and the gate is wide open, writes Bridget Tunnicliffe.

Silver Ferns' coach Dame Noeline Taurua says just making the final at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham is going to be difficult.

The Pulse chose the perfect time to put a full 60 minute performance together when they blitzed the Stars in the ANZ Premiership final last night.

Minor premiership winners the Pulse know they will need to be on song this afternoon with the Stars on a seven game winning streak and brimming with confidence.

Northern Mystics' shooter Grace Nweke has been cleared to play in tonight's elimination final against cross town rivals the Stars in Auckland.