Yahoo Sports· 2h ago· 1 min read
Tonga players emerge on to court at the 2023 Netball World Cup [Getty Images] No team. No coach. No training facilities.
No problem.
When Salote Sisifa became CEO of Tonga Netball in 2014, she had a blank canvas. Some would call it an empty cupboard.
Twelve years and much upheaval later, the Pacific Islanders are ranked eighth in the world. For context, that's just behind Wales and ahead of Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Tonga launch their first Commonwealth Games netball campaign on Saturday in Glasgow when they face Australia, the world's preeminent team.
Their story is remarkable. It tells of how TV anchor Sisifa went from reading the news to making the news, changing her country's sporting future.
It takes in national crises that include a 2022 volcanic eruption of quite staggering force, the destructive tsunami that followed, and the arrival of Covid-19 - almost two years…
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