Under 21s world champion Scarlet Jauncey has reaped the rewards of another strong year with a return to the Super Netball system with West Coast Fever.
The Yawuru defender has signed on as training partner with the club for the 2027 season.
It's been a standout few years for the 20-year-old, captaining the Fever's Super Netball Reserves team to a third-place finish in 2026, taking the court again for the Black Swans national First Nations team, and propelling Western Australia to the final of last month's First Nations tournament.
Training partners sit outside the 10-player contracted primary roster at Super Netball clubs, as the name suggests, training with the top level playing group as part of the extended squad.
A selected 11th player out of training partners can make Super Netball appearances.
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Jauncey will be in serious company at the Fever. Their defensive circle options include England captain Fran Williams, Commonwealth Games silver medallist with Jamaica Kadie-Ann Dehaney, and Aryang sisters Ruth and Sunday — the latter an Australian Diamond regular set to make her comeback from an ACL injury next season.
"I'm really grateful to be back with West Coast Fever for another season," Jauncey said.
"The environment has already helped me grow so much both as a player and a person, so I'm really excited to keep learning, working hard and challenging myself alongside such a great group."
Jauncey will go around again with the Black Swans next year after selection in the 2027 squad.
In 2025 she was co-vice captain of Australia's Netball World Youth Cup gold-winning side in Gibraltar. Jauncey was the first Indigenous player to represent the side at the tournament in over two decades.
"She has hugely benefited from being immersed in the Fever training environment and showed plenty of promise when she stepped on the court during our pre-season matches this year," West Coast Fever head coach Dan Ryan said of Jauncey, adding the defender continued to show growth over the previous 12 months.
It's not Jauncey's first season as a training partner in Boorloo/Perth.
"Scarlet is a hard worker and a fierce competitor with so much potential still to unlock. She's a really determined athlete with big goals and I know she's up for the challenge," Ryan added.
Off the back of a player of the carnival-winning campaign at last year's First Nations Tournament, Queensland midcourter Brianna Martyn headed south to the NSW Swifts as a training partner for 2026, before injury ended her year early.
In the Fever Reserves side, Jauncey was joined by WA First Nations state teammate Teirrah Miller.
The Super Netball plays in the autumn and winter months.
Club 10-player squads were finalised in the recent signing period.
