Netball Jamaica president Marva Bernard has issued a call to all Jamaica to get behind the Sunshine Girls netball effort to be crowned World Cup Netball Champions in Sydney, Australia next year.

Bernard was delivering the opening remark at the press launch of Netball Jamaica 2015 netball calendar with the Supreme Ventures Sunshine Series at the HEART College of Construction Services, formerly Portmore HEART Academy, yesterday.

The Netball Jamaica president said that the players have been hard at work spending diligent and quality time fine-tuning their skills to meet the challenge that lies ahead in the upcoming series when the Sunshine Girls will take on England in a three Test series to be played at the National Indoor Sports Centre from January 10 to 13, 2015.

The two first matches of the Series are scheduled begin at 5:00 pm with the third game scheduled for a 7:00 pm start.

“We are asking you all to come out and support this series. I am saying here; buy a ticket, don’t beg a ticket. The prices for a ticket to enter the matches will be $600.00 pre-sold and $800.00 at the gate. Children under the age of 12 years will pay $300.00.

“The series” said Bernard, “is a part of our ‘Gold Rush Down Under’ campaign; so it is really also a fund raising effort to get these girls to Sydney.

Other teams can afford to meet several times before they meet at the Netball World Cup and we are grateful to England for coming here in January to give us the practice and we are expected to have a Caribbean Team in June.

So, please come out and support this important and worthy Supreme Ventures Sunshine Netball Series. We firmly believe that in spite of the odds, we can go to Sydney and come home with the gold,” Bernard pointed out.

The start-up Series will be used to gauge the state of preparedness of the Sunshine Girls who have already qualified for the World Cup that will be held in Sydney Australia from August 7 through 16.

The Sunshine Girls came fourth in the last World Cup in 2011.