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Kōrero: Sport and the nation

Southern Sting sculpture

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Southern Sting sculpture

This sculpture of two netballers stands at the entrance to the Invercargill airport.  It expresses the pride of the Southland community in the achievement of the Southern Sting netball team. In the 10 years of the national competition for New Zealand netball supremacy, which began in 1998, the Southern Sting won seven titles and were runners-up on the remaining three occasions.

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by Phillip Capper

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Jock Phillips, Sport and the nation – The relationship between sport and nationalism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/41193/southern-sting-sculpture (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 26 March 2013.