Wong Cherishes Debut Chance

Injury setbacks, long road to national team make netballer a more resilient player

- Kimberly Kwek

With 2025 shaping up to be a pivotal year for the national netball team – there are three major competitions, including the SEA Games – goal shooter Priscilla Wong was eager to stake her claim and make her international debut.

Those ambitions were put on hold in February, when she suffered a concussion after a collision with an opponent during a Netball Super League (NSL) match, prematurely ending her season with the Fier Orcas.

Sidelined for two months, the 23-year-old feared her chance of a call-up had slipped away.

She said: "Prior to the season, I was making sure I was conditioned well and there was a big year for the Opens squad so it was something that I could fight for.

"When the concussion happened and things led up to it and not being able to play the whole season, I thought that my chance was basically gone."

But she got her chance in May, when national coach Tara Steel called her to share the happy news that she had been selected for the Singapore Vandas’ first international outing of the year, the United Arab Emirates Netball Cup in Dubai from June 15 to 21.

The Nanyang Technological University undergraduate, who joined the Opens team in 2024, said: "I was quite excited for it because for me, it’s been a long process from the time I started netball and then playing for Singapore A (the developmental squad).