Loughborough Lightning (netball)

Loughborough Lightning is an English netball team based at Loughborough University. Their senior team plays in the Netball Super League, in which they were named the East Midlands franchise in 2005 and were founder members, and they have made seven grand finals, winning three, in 2021, 2023 and 2024. The team shares the Loughborough Lightning name with four other women's sports teams at the university. Lightning made their first grand final in 2007-08, lost the 2017 and 2018 finals to Wasps Netball, and won their first title in 2021 under coach Sara Francis-Bayman and captain Natalie Panagarry. They also won the inaugural British Fast5 Netball All-Stars Championship in 2017 and play home games at the Sir David Wallace Sports Centre and the Motorpoint Arena in Nottingham.