Melbourne Vixens goal shooter and former World Cup MVP Mwai Kumwenda took students for a lunchtime lesson as part of the school's NetGoals program.
Ms Kumwenda is originally from Malawi and grew up playing with a ball of melted plastic and home-made goals, before playing netball in Malawi and then moving to Australia.
She's since won the 2020 Super Netball grand final with the side, claiming the MVP medal in that match, as well as player of the tournament at the 2015 World Cup, playing for Malawi.
She said she loves doing sessions at schools.
“It's nice to see the girls and be working with them, they might be pushing to be in the Vixens one day so it's good to be pushing them and have the opportunity to teach them skills,” she said.
“Mostly because I'm a goal shooter I'll be telling them how to move in the goal circle and attacking-wise about passing, as well as about my story of coming to Melbourne.
“These girls are so lucky here. It'll be nice to tell them how far I came."
Netball Victoria sports alliance project manager Kristen Penny said the program, which was only in a handful of schools across the state, worked with Greater Shepparton Lighthouse Project to decide on bringing the program - and Ms Kumwenda, known as MJ - to the region.
NetGoals is funded by the Victorian Government and Ms Penny said they'd identified Mooroopna "as the school of choice to bring the program to teach these kids to be mentors, leaders, about resilience and using netball as a mechanism".
“We brought MJ up here because of her story of coming from Malawi to Melbourne and (to) win a championship last year, a World Cup MVP and the MVP last year is absolutely inspiring. We want the kids to hear her story.”
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