VALENTINE Public School's year 6 girls netball team have brought home state honours for the first time.
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The team made it all the way to the 2015 Netball NSW Schools Cup finals at Netball Central in Sydney Olympic Park to defeat St Patrick's Parish School (Albury) 16-13 in the years 5/6 mixed division.
Coach Gillian McCurdy said it was a "fantastic effort" after the team failed to make it past the local competition in the round robin-style tournament last year.
"They were elated to get to the finals," McCurdy said.
"They'd worked really hard to get to that point; they were exhausted by the end [of the tournament] but they still pulled together and gave it all they had."
Just 24 hours before, the girls won the PSSA Netball Knockout Competition, also at Sydney Olympic Park, 26-21 against Bateau Bay.
They returned the next day to make it a double.
More than 7600 students and 764 teams from across the state contested the schools cup in the years 5/6 mixed, years 7/8 girls and years 7/8 boys divisions.
From March to September, teams progressed through carnivals, called local days, followed by regional then state finals.
The competition was a clean sweep for the Hunter; St Pius X College Adamstown defeated Pymble Ladies College 28-22 in the years 7/8 girls decider while All Saints College (St Joseph's campus, Lochinvar) beat Great Lakes College (Tuncurry campus) 16-11 in the years 7/8 boys.