Jamaica Sunshine Girls
Jamaica's netball team, the Sunshine Girls: four World Cup bronzes, back-to-back Commonwealth finals in 2022 and 2026, and the Caribbean's leading side.
The Sunshine Girls are the Jamaica national netball team, run by Netball Jamaica and competing in World Netball's Americas region. They are the most successful netball nation outside netball's traditional strongholds of Australia, New Zealand and England, and have played at the World Cup since the very first tournament in 1963.
Record at a glance
| Competition | Best result | Medals |
|---|---|---|
| Netball World Cup | Third (1991, 2003, 2007, 2023) | 4 bronze |
| Commonwealth Games | Runners-up (2022, 2026) | 2 silver, 3 bronze |
Jamaica's Commonwealth bronze medals came in 2002, 2014 and 2018. They have also finished fourth at the World Cup four times (1971, 1999, 2011 and 2015).
Recent highlights
- 2022 Commonwealth Games, Birmingham: Jamaica reached their first Commonwealth final, losing to Australia, and took silver.
- 2023 World Cup, Cape Town: Jamaica lost a close semi-final to Australia 57–54, then beat New Zealand to take bronze.
- 2026 Commonwealth Games, Glasgow: Jamaica reached the final again, taking silver behind New Zealand.
Hosting the World Cup
Jamaica have hosted the World Cup twice, both times in Kingston, in 1971 and 2003.
Standing in world netball
Jamaica's consistent presence near the top of world netball, despite a smaller domestic base than Australia, New Zealand or England, has made the Sunshine Girls a symbol of the sport's growth beyond its traditional core nations. Many of their leading players play professionally abroad — the shooter Jhaniele Fowler, for example, in Australia's Suncorp Super Netball — while others play in England's Netball Super League. See history of netball for how the sport spread through the Caribbean.
Where this page stops
This page is a durable reference to who the Sunshine Girls are and what they've won, not a source for current squad lists or the latest results — check World Netball for current tournament coverage.
Sources
All information on this page is given to the best of our knowledge at the time of writing (October 2026), after referring to the sources below — official sources wherever they exist, and the named secondary source where we couldn't find an official record.
- World Netball: Netball World Cup results and World Netball: Commonwealth Games results — medals checked October 2026.
- World Netball: Cape Town 2023
- World Netball: Commonwealth Games events and results
- Results cross-checked against Jamaica national netball team on Wikipedia.
Related reading
See England Roses, Australia Diamonds and New Zealand Silver Ferns for the sport's other leading nations.