HERVEY Bay has produced some very strong netballers in recent years and the future looks bright for 11 year old Bella-Maree Latoa.

Bella is a Student Leader at Yarrilee State School and has been selected in the Wide Bay Schools Under 12 Netball Team to represent the region at the Queensland State Championships carnival in Caloundra from June 1st. This carnival will have some of the best 10-12 year old future netballers stars in the state competing over a four day carnival.

After playing in a two day Wide Bay Trials for the Hervey Bay Schools Netball representative team, she was selected for the Wide Bay team along with two other Hervey Bay team members – Luca Tomekovic and Emerson Frainey.

“She was just thrilled”, says her mum Delia Davis. “She has worked really hard and was so excited to be selected for the region.”

Bella plays for local club Bay Bullets in Division 7, and comes from a family of sporting talent. Her father has played rugby league and her older sisters also play representative netball for Hervey Bay.

The Yarrilee student has a very busy year ahead as Netball is not the only sport she excels at. She has a passion for many sports, recently trialling for the AFL Wide Bay representative team and was selected to play in the Possibles and Probables squad.

Bella also represented Hervey Bay in Oztag at the QLD Junior State cup earlier this year and will be travelling to Townsville at the end of June to represent Hervey Bay Netball Association u12 at QLD Junior State Age.

Hervey Bay continues to produce highly talented sports stars and Bella is another example of the talent our region has.