{"id":78373,"date":"2019-05-27T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=78373"},"modified":"2019-05-27T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T00:16:09","slug":"joyce-mvula-wins-two-club-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/27\/joyce-mvula-wins-two-club-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Joyce Mvula wins two club awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78377\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78377\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/joyce-mvula-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78377\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/joyce-mvula-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/joyce-mvula-4.jpg 284w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/joyce-mvula-4-233x300.jpg 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78377\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BEING RECOGNISED<br \/>IN FOREIGN LAND\u2014<br \/>Mvula<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi national netball team shooter, Joyce Mvula, has scooped two awards at her English side Manchester Thunder to wrap up a memorable season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/joyce-mvula-inspires-thunder-to-championship-voted-sky-sports-fans-player-of-the-season\/\">Mvula<\/a> is on cloud nine after being named Players\u2019 Player of the Year and Coach\u2019s Player of the Season.<\/p>\n<p>The development completes a remarkable season for the shooter after she was also voted Sky Sports netball fans\u2019 Player of the Year after guiding Thunder to their first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.netballsl.com\/\">Vitality Superleague<\/a> title since 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThis has truly been a fantastic season for me and the club. We won our first league title in five years and I played a crucial role in the victory. It was also pleasing to be voted Sky Sports fans\u2019 player of the season. I now have two awards at my club following the recognition from my teammates and the coach. This shows that the team recognises my contribution,\u201d<\/em> Mvula said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She also hailed her teammates for their support during games throughout the season.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cI would not have won all these awards on my own. I managed because my teammates were supportive. We were united regardless of the circumstances,\u201d<\/em> Mvula said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Queens star has completed her third season at Thunder, having joined from Blue Eagles Sisters.<\/p>\n<p>She also featured for the Malawi under-20 national netball team at the African Union Sports Council Region Five (formerly Zone VI) Games in 2010 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>On both occasions, she was named best shooter of the biannual event.<\/p>\n<p>Mvula is undergoing specialised training after hurting her knee during the 2019 Vitality Superleague grand final with Wasps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi national netball team shooter, Joyce Mvula, has scooped two awards at her English side Manchester Thunder to wrap up a memorable season. Mvula is on cloud nine after being named Players\u2019 Player of the Year and Coach\u2019s Player of the Season. The development completes a remarkable season for the shooter after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":77106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78378,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78373\/revisions\/78378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}