The Lockhart playing coach is supposed to be entering her first season at the helm of the Demons after being lured across from Riverina League club Collingullie-Glenfield Park.

The dual Wagga Netball Association and Riverina League best and fairest winner has been playing A-grade netball since she was 13-years-old.

This season marks her first break from the sport in over 10 years, due to the coronavirus.

Norbury, who also coaches junior rep netball, admits it's been hard adapting to life away from the court.

"I think it's been particularly hard coming off the back of leaving a club and starting at a new club," she said.

"I was just starting to find my feet there in the pre-season and getting excited about the new concept and then all of a sudden one week we couldn't go to training.

"Once the season is in full swing I'm usually out of the house every night from Monday to Friday and obviously Saturdays as well.

"You just lose that social interaction that you get from playing netball.

"I'm missing that a fair bit more than anything."

After spending the last six seasons with Collingullie Glenfield Park, Norbury said the time was right for a change.

"I'm definitely excited about playing with a new bunch of girls in a new league," she said.

"The excitement of the unknown is nice at the moment.

"I don't really know any players in the Hume League, there might be one or two, so I'm really looking forward to being able to get on the court and not know my opponents."

Norbury has played in Collingullie Glenfield Park's last five A-grade grand final appearances and has had premiership success with both Uranquinty and Wagga's Shooting Stars.

But she said some of her biggest highlights have come from the friends she's made along the way.

"At the end of the day, it's the friends that you make and some of my best friends have been made through netball," she said.

"I've had the opportunity to play with some of the girls I coached in rep when they were in the under-17's.

"It's been nice to be able get on the court with girls that I've coached as juniors."

When she's not playing or coaching netball Norbury works as a pharmacist.

In the current pandemic climate she admits her job has shifted up a gear as people's focuses turn towards their health.

"It's been like working Christmas Eve every day of the year," she said.

Norbury hopes to see the league establish some sort of season in the coming months.

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