Not even a global pandemic could stop 2020 being a year of celebration for Generation Netball Club.
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Founded in 1995, Generation was set to celebrate its 25th anniversary last October before coronavirus led to an early postponement.
By the time October did come around, the club had notched up yet another cause for celebration - its first-ever division one flag.
Club founder Narelle Cameron said the division one premiership had been a long time coming.
"We put in a division one mid-week roster team in 2005 and we went through the year with some large defeating margins," Cameron said.
"Since then we've built and built and built and in the last 10 years that team has either reached semi-finals, preliminary finals or a grand final.
"Now we can have our Net-Set-Gos and our 11,12 and 13-year-old girls go 'look we've got a division one team, we can keep going to the top level', so it's about giving them that pathway.
"That was a really big highlight in 2020 for the club to see that happen."
The club's 25th anniversary had been pencilled in for March this year, but is finally set to take place on Saturday, July 10.
Recent coronavirus outbreaks mean the celebration will look slightly different than first thought - Super Netball pair Kelsey and Madi Browne won't be in attendance and interstate visitors may struggle to make the trip - but the night is already dripping with significance.
The venue - Mowbray Turf Club - is the same as the club's first-ever presentation night in 1996, and the date coincides with a successful world record attempt five years ago.
"We had a group of girls who decided they would like to break the world record for the longest game of netball which ran from the 8th of July to the 12th of July - we're having our dinner smack bang in the middle of when they would have been breaking that world record five years ago," Cameron said.
"So it brings back a few memories for me - particularly the one about having it at the Turf Club because we were only one team, so we sat on the steps of the Turf Club and had our own little presentation.
"It's a little bit ironic that we're going to use the same venue where we celebrated the very first year of the club and we're celebrating the 25th at the same place.
"Whether it be 130 or 200 or 300 people we're going to have an absolute blast, we're going to have a really good night."
Growing from one team upon its establishment in 1995, Generation has become one of the NTNA's most well-established clubs.
Cameron and husband Ian believe the club's "fantastic" volunteer group has it well-placed to continue long into the future.
"We have some really wonderful parents that have had their children come and play netball 10 or 15 years ago and they've taken on roles like coaching, managing, being on our board and I believe that if Ian and I walked away tomorrow our club would be left in very capable hands," Cameron said.
"We've got lots of people in our club that have a great passion for our club ... [we know] if we do decide we're going to retire after this year that we've got people there that can step forward and say 'we need to keep this club going so that we can see it still happening in another 10,15 or 20 years'.
"We look forward to watching all of our current and past players that have now had young girls, seeing them come to the club and hopefully in another 10 years we'll be watching them playing netball."
The Camerons, who have two young grandchildren, have had retirement in the back of their minds for many years, but a deep love for the club and its members has kept them Hobler's Bridge regulars.
"I said at our 20th [anniversary] that we were going to step back a lot more - I think we both are stepping back a little bit more each year," Cameron said.
"We don't coach on a Saturday, but we go down and help with mentoring young coaches and umpires and things like that and we have plenty of other people that do exactly the same thing within our club.
"We've got a really good volunteer base of people and we're getting new parents all the time that want to put their hand up."
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