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young woman who has

                                                                  accomplished this feat in both


                                                                  netball and volleyball. Vanessa is a


                                                                  former captain of the Queen's

                                                                  College netball and volleyball teams.


                                                                  She was named the University of the

                                                                  West Indies sportswoman of the


                                                                  year in 2019. In addition to this, she
                “The Life of Vanessa
                                                                  has also won the netballer of the


                                                                  year award three times while at
               Bobb”
                                                                  Cavehill.



                                                                  The current University of the West
               Sport in the nation of Barbados is
                                                                  Indies Blackbirds player recounted
               one of the most widely supported
                                                                  that she began playing netball when
               pass times for many males and
                                                                  she was in Infants B at Erdiston
               females. Barbados' national netball

                                                                  Primary school and has since gone
               team holds the highest world
                                                                  on to represent the likes of National
               ranking of any of the nation's
                                                                  Sports Council developmental squad
               national teams. The honour of
                                                                  and the Pinehill Dairy St. Barnabas
               representing a national team is the
                                                                  netball club. Bobb told Trident
               dream of many young girls
                                                                  Times Sports that her earliest
               throughout the country. Twenty-
                                                                  memories of netball were of going to
               three-year-old Vanessa Bobb is one

                                                                  watch her aunt play the sport and
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