Full name | Loughborough Students Netball Club | |
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Nickname(s) | Lightning | |
Based in | Loughborough University | |
Regions | East Midlands | |
Home venue | Sir David Wallace Sports Centre Loughborough University | |
Head coach | Vic Burgess | |
League | Netball Superleague | |
Website | www.lboro.ac.uk | |
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Loughborough Lightning is an English netball team based at Loughborough University. Their senior team plays in the Netball Superleague. In 2005–06 they were founder members of the league. They also enter under-19 and under-21 teams in the National Performance League. Using the name Loughborough Students, Loughborough University also enter teams in intervarsity leagues organised by British Universities and Colleges Sport.[1][2] Together with the women's cricket team, the women's rugby union team, the women's cycling team, the women's football team and the women's wheelchair basketball team, the netball team is one of five women's sports teams based at Loughborough University that use the Loughborough Lightning name.[3]