The Ballarat Netball Association will resume competition play from Monday.
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The BNA will hold matches almost every day next week as 60 teams prepare to take the court for the first time since July.
But it won't be an indoor court.
All matches will take place on the association's two outdoor courts while indoor sport remains off limits.
"It's very exciting to have junior sport going back," BNA president Jo Dash said.
"We've had lots of positive feedback so far."
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After a disrupted start to the summer due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the BNA managed to briefly resume play in July. However it was forced to postpone the season three rounds in following a second wave of the virus in Victoria.
No community sport has been played since.
From Monday, the association's 11-under, 13-under and 15-under age groups will pick the season up where it left off from round three, while 18-under players will start fresh.
The 18-under competitions will play an eight-week season, while other age-groups will play a slightly extended 10-week season. The campaign will wrap up in late November before recommencing its summer season in February.
"Rather than wait for a month, we thought we'll re-jig the competitions so the younger players can pick up where they left off in July," Dash said.
Although games will be played outdoors, COVID-19 health measures will remain in place. Measures will see players enter and exit courts from designated areas and surfaces sanitised diligently. Masks will also be made mandatory for players when entering and leaving competition areas.
Having implemented the measures briefly in July, Dash was confident the BNA could manage them again.
"Because of the outdoor format we think our cleaning between games will be quicker because there aren't as many surfaces to touch, but everything else will run the same," she said.
