Jamaica Sunshine Girls
Jamaica's national netball team, the Sunshine Girls: history, competitions, and their standing as the Caribbean's leading netball nation.
The Sunshine Girls are the Jamaica national netball team, and the most successful netball nation to emerge from outside netball's traditional strongholds of Australia, New Zealand and England.
Competitions
Jamaica compete in the Netball World Cup and Commonwealth Games netball tournaments, and have long been established among the sport's top nations, regularly reaching the closing stages of major tournaments — see history of netball for how the sport spread through the wider British Empire and Commonwealth, including the Caribbean.
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 significant symbol for the growth of the sport beyond its traditional core nations, and an important reference point for netball's development across the Caribbean.
Where this page stops
This page is a durable reference to who the Sunshine Girls are and where they compete, not a source for current squad lists or the latest results — check Netball Jamaica's official channels for that.
Related reading
See England Roses, Australia Diamonds and New Zealand Silver Ferns for the sport's other long-established leading nations.