Bourgaize resigns as Guernsey Panthers coach
GUERNSEY PANTHERS will have a new coach from next season after Denise Bourgaize announced her resignation from the role.
It comes in a dramatic few days for Guernsey netball as Gill Queripel has surprisingly been re-elected as president and has promised 'massive changes' at the elite representative end of the local game.
That will see the island's league team under the guise of Panthers remain for a fifth season during 2016-17, but possibly with a radical overhaul of both the coaching and player structure.
Either way, it will be without Bourgaize as its head coach.
She confirmed her resignation by email on Monday night – 24 hours before the Guernsey Netball Association's annual general meeting – in the wake of the heavy 84-18 inter-insular defeat to Jersey.
A new coach is yet to be appointed and it promises to be a hectic few months for the GNA, who have deferred what some saw as a controversial proposal at Tuesday night's AGM.
Part of it suggested that Panthers' senior team should only be for players who are aged 25 and under, as well as potentially splitting the island set-up in half so that there are both Panthers and separate representative squads.
Given the significant repercussions if those plans were agreed, a vote on the matter was deferred, but there was still change aplenty at the AGM.
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