The sport was started in the early 1900 after slavery to empower women in the country, at that time the first athletes were the children of the slave masters who had been privilege enough to afforded opportunity to form clubs like Malvern, Maple, Harvard and Queens Park.
Trinidad's netball flourished in the mid1900s as the women that were marginalize started to explore the possibility of competing on the world stage.
Women like Lystra Lewis, Eugenia Theodosia Pierre, Antionette Gaskins, Ingrid Blackman and Club players like Jean Best and Phyllis Best.
The team consisted of the following ladies Ingrid Blackman, Angela Burke-Brown, Peggy Castanada, Heather Charleau, Cyrenia Charles, Marcia Dimsoy, Jennifer Nurse, Sherril Peters, Althea Thomas, Jennifer, Williams, Eugenia Theodosia Pierre, and Veryl Prescod Netball is a sport developed at about the same time as women basketball but remain with the basic rules of the old criteria.
this was a physical training school for ladies Netball's popularity continued to grow, with the game being played in many British Commonwealth countries.
she also promoted the sport in the west indies in 1945 she was the Secretary/Treasurer of the Port-of-Spain Netball League and coached the Trinidad & Tobago National Team for the first time in 1952.
She received a scholarship from the British Council and left Trinidad to study physical education at Bedford College.
In 1962, she was the driving force behind the erection of the first official netball court in Trinidad at the Princess Building Grounds, Port-of-Spain.
Eugenia Theodosia Pierre (Jean) These women are not known to the world at large but are recognized in the Caribbean for their accomplishments and has ensured that netball in Trinidad is vibrant and strong.