Having gone unbeaten on the way to winning the ANZ Premiership, it now turns its attention to the super club world series in Nelson.
The tournament features eight teams and will be played over a week. Although there are no teams from Australia’s super netball competition, the New South Wales Institute of Sport will be competing. The competition will also feature South Africa’s Gauteng Jaguars, Fiji’s Marama Vou, Wales’ Celtic Flames and the University of Trinidad and Tobago.
The top three New Zealand teams, the Steel, Central Pulse and Northern Mystics, make up the remaining spots.
In a pool with the New South Wales Institute of Sport, Gauteng Jaguars and University of Trinidad and Tobago, the Steel plays its pool games on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday.
There will then be semifinals and finals for each place on Thursday and Friday.
The Steel will be without defender Abby Erwood, who is heading to Botswana with the New Zealand under-21 team for the youth world cup.
However it will have the services of Beko League players Olivia Bates, Dani Gray and Sophie Erwood, all of whom turned out for the Steel towards the end of the season.
Super club world series
Southern Steel draw
v Gauteng Jaguars, Sunday, 7.30pm
v University of Trinidad and Tobago, Monday, 6.40pm
v NSW Institute of Sport, Wednesday, 8.30pm.
