The long wait for teams to resume training will potentially soon be over after Wagga Netball's junior representative teams became the first to return to action this week.

But the netball community will soon face a back log of demand for the Equex Centre's courts with some Riverina and Farrer League clubs to start training this week.

At this stage only the under 12, 13, 14, 15 and 17 representative teams have been given permission to start training, with Wagga Netball's executive committee to meet again on June 2 after coronavirus restrictions are hopefully eased.

The players were asked to adhere to a number of strict guidelines including signing an attendance register, only ten players allowed on each court, no body contact and balls regularly cleaned.

Equex has 17 courts, which are used by a host of teams in the local competition, schools and a handful in the football-associated leagues.

But current social distancing guidelines mean only about five teams can train there at the same time until restrictions ease, meaning many squads may have to alter the days and times they train.

"There can't be any conversations before training, it's straight to training and straight home afterward," Wagga Wagga Netball Incorporated president Rosemary Clarke said.

"It's really hard and if the coaches can't manage it, it will be scrubbed. It puts us under enormous pressure, but that's just the way you have to work it.

"We can't have lots of clubs down there because it's in breach of the legislation. We've submitted our program and how we're going to return to council, but at present we haven't had a meeting to discuss that.

"All we've done is can we cater to our rep teams, and it's getting the girls out there.

"There's no school sport at the moment, at least we can get them out there doing some sort of physical activity."

Clarke said they're keen for the restrictions to ease further to boost the number of players they can accommodate simultaneously at Equex, with 50 the largest gatherings currently allowed.

Lights also aren't available for use at the facility at present as council looks to restrict the temptations for others to use the courts without approval.

"People forget if we have all of our 17 courts loaded, that's 170 players which is well and truly above what we can have," Clarke said.

"It puts us in a situation where we can't open the courts for anyone else.

"They (teams in football-associated leagues) have been contacting us to get on the court, but that's where our problem's going to be. If it doesn't past level B stage one (restrictions) next week, we can't have any other teams down there at all.

"I think next Tuesday (executive meeting) will be an insight into what we can do, because we have to sort out the number of people we can have on each of our venues, then who we give priority to."

Mangoplah-Cookardinia United-Eastlakes first grade coach Marie Hope said they're keen to use the Equex facilities again, but are willing to be flexible to ensure all affected teams are accommodated.

"We're just waiting on the Wagga Netball crew to liaise with the council to work out how they're going to run the Equex court bookings and trainings," she said.

"The girls have been doing fitness and skills and drills and I know they're really keen on getting back into it.

"The maximum number allowed, they're the details they need to be across to make sure we're doing the right thing.

"It just means we have to be a bit more agile with training bookings I suppose, but at the moment people aren't doing that much so I'm sure any night will be fine."

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