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Sky Sports Netball Month has ex-Team Bath star feeling 'super chuffed'

The Australian Diamonds celebrate victory in the 2015 Netball World Cup Gold Medal match between Australia and New Zealand
Image: England face Australia in tri-series opener on Wednesday

Former Team Bath netballer Kelly Morgan cannot wait for the live January action to kick off with England's tri-series opener against Australia on Wednesday, live on Sky Sports 2.

England face the world champions at the Echo Arena in Liverpool on January 20, before the live action heads to London's Copper Box Arena for the final two Tests on January 22 and 24.

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Image: January is Netball Month on Sky Sports

Netball Month on Sky Sports also features live and exclusive coverage of the inaugural Super Saturday, where all eight Superleague teams compete on a frenzied day of action at Birmingham's Genting Arena on January 30.

"It is absolutely immense," Morgan told Sky Sports. "I am super chuffed that the coverage is there.

Beckford-Chambers joins her team-mates for the annual Team Bath photo.
Image: Kelly Morgan previously turned out for Team Bath

"When I was playing netball and coming through I was forever coming up against people who had this preconception of schoolgirl netball, people who thought it wasn't really a proper sport.

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Sky Sports' Tamsin Greenway takes us through some examples of positioning and footwork ahead of Sky Sports' Netball month this January!

"There are some mixed teams out there but it is pretty much a female sport. To see netball now getting the coverage it deserves is absolutely brilliant because it is an outstanding sport to both play and watch."

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Image: The inaugural Super Saturday is in Birmingham on January 30

Morgan's netball career was cut short when she elected to pursue a career in athletics. The decision paid dividends for Morgan - who went on to break the British javelin record and land Commonwealth bronze - but she did manage to represent England's development side against Australia in 2001.

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"That was some experience and I just think I am a lucky, lucky sportswoman," Morgan said.

"That was a real pinnacle memory for me. I've had some great experiences in sport and that was one of them. 

"Straight after the match England Netball asked me to tour with them in Australia and trying to get my foot in there is something I had been trying to do since I was at school.

"I had to make a decision between netball and athletics and because I was Lottery-funded for athletics I felt I had to stick with that. But that was an insane experience and is something that will forever live in my memory for sure. It was decent, really good."

Kelly Morgan in action against Szilvia Szabados
Image: Morgan in action against Szilvia Szabados last month (Photo: Adam Dale)

Morgan's remarkable journey in sport has continued and the 35-year-old is now forging a new identity for herself as one of only a handful of professional female boxers in this country.

Her meteoric rise in the sport saw her end 2015 with a convincing win over middleweight World No 2 Silvia Szabados, putting her in line to fight for the WBC Silver title in March.

A potential world title challenge could follow if she emerges victorious and Morgan has been invited by the WBC to attend their second annual women's boxing convention in Tijuana, Mexico next week.

You can read Kelly Morgan's blog from the WBC Convention on our Sportswomen page next week.

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