Nickname: | Bourkey |
Place of Birth: | Auckland |
Year of Birth: | 1993 |
Height: | 1.83cm |
Playing Positions/Role: | GD,GK |
Previous Positions: | We played everything back in the day! |
Netball Career Highlights: | Playing for mystics this year |
Age Started Playing: | 8 |
Best thing about playing Netball: | Getting to play with your friends, winning, training |
Previous National Squads: | NZ U21, NZSS |
Other interests: | Skating, snowboaring |
Hobbies/Passtimes: | Eating, playing guitar, rapping |
Role Models/Heroes: | my mama :) |
Nickname: | James |
Place of Birth: | Auckland |
Year of Birth: | 1991 |
Height: | 1.71m |
Playing Positions/Role: | WA/C/WD |
Previous Positions: | Always been the same |
Netball Career Highlights: | Upper North Island player of tournament & NZSS reserve |
Age Started Playing: | 5 |
Best thing about playing Netball: | I love being in a team enviroemnt AND the lollies at half time |
Previous National Squads: | |
Other interests: | Traveling the world |
Hobbies/Passtimes: | Touch, Swimming, boxing |
Role Models/Heroes: | Tempara George & my mother |
Nickname: | Indie |
Place of Birth: | Auckland |
Year of Birth: | 1992 |
Height: | 176cm |
Playing Positions/Role: | GA/GS |
Previous Positions: | GA/GS |
Netball Career Highlights: | 2nd U21 Age Group Nationals - Auckland Waitakere team |
Age Started Playing: | 10 |
Best thing about playing Netball: | It's fun! |
Previous National Squads: | None |
Other interests: | Friends/ Family/ Art/ Design |
Hobbies/Passtimes: | Horseriding |
Role Models/Heroes: | Maria Tutaia |
Nickname: | Kana |
Place of Birth: | North Shore |
Year of Birth: | 1994 |
Height: | 173cm |
Playing Positions/Role: | WA, C, WD |
Previous Positions: | GD |
Netball Career Highlights: | Making NZ U-21 team for Youth World Cup |
Age Started Playing: | 8 |
Best thing about playing Netball: | Satisfaction you get when your hard work pays off |
Previous National Squads: | New Zealand Secondary Schools, NZ U-21 team |
Other interests: | Hanging out with friends |
Hobbies/Passtimes: | Reading athletes auto-biographies, beach |
Role Models/Heroes: | Mum a.k.a Superwoman |
Nickname: | Liz |
Place of Birth: | Auckland, NZ |
Year of Birth: | 26th April, 1995 |
Height: | 1.8m |
Playing Positions/Role: | WD, GD, GK |
Previous Positions: | GA, GS |
Netball Career Highlights: | |
Age Started Playing: | 8 years old |
Best thing about playing Netball: | Aggressiveness of players and the game itself |
Previous National Squads: | Pacific Rim, Samoa u21s |
Other interests: | Playing Tag football during off season for netball! |
Hobbies/Passtimes: | Shopping for shoes! |
Role Models/Heroes: | Family- the reason to why I am where I am today |
Nickname: | CHAR, MAINEY, PEANUT (DON'T ASK) |
Place of Birth: | Dargaville, Northland |
Year of Birth: | 1990 |
Height: | 182cm |
Playing Positions/Role: | Defence, GD,WD,GK |
Previous Positions: | Believe it or not.. Centre until I grew taller then the average person and went to defence. |
Netball Career Highlights: | Playing on Saturday mornings at Whangarei Netball Centre playing for my little primary school team alongside my two big brothers (not kidding), Representing the far North in age group and national champs Netball North teams. Oh and definitely making the Northern under 23s |
Age Started Playing: | Probably about 7 years old when I started playing, about the time I had to stop playing rugby |
Best thing about playing Netball: | I would say the best thing about playing netball is the people I have met, the opportunities and the travel (I hadn’t been on an plane until I flew to Invercargil for age group champs) |
Previous National Squads: | None |
Other interests: | Family (proud Aunty of two), visiting the family farm in Whangarei, friends, my job, taking my puppy to the beach |
Hobbies/Passtimes: | Well I'm not the collecting type apart from the odd pretty shell at the beach? |
Role Models/Heroes: | Firstly, my parents they are the hardest working people I know, in terms of netball and work three people come to mind my high school netball coach Eve Barton she was a major influence and support early on, the last two are believe it or not both the Northern under 23 coaches Helene Wilson and Jenny May Coffin. |
Nickname: | Min, Minnie |
Place of Birth: | Auckland |
Year of Birth: | 1993 |
Height: | 182cm |
Playing Positions/Role: | GA, GS, GK |
Previous Positions: | |
Netball Career Highlights: | Counties Manukau NZC Team, Mystics Training Squad 2011-12 |
Age Started Playing: | 12 years old |
Best thing about playing Netball: | Meeting new people and playing the sport I love and travelling |
Previous National Squads: | |
Other interests: | Hanging out with friends, coaching AFL, music |
Hobbies/Passtimes: | Volleyball, Basketball, Touch |
Role Models/Heroes: | Katrina Grant, Kirsten Hurley, my parents |
Nickname: | Carlz, Car, Carlito |
Place of Birth: | South Africa, Johannesburg |
Year of Birth: | 19/09/1991 |
Height: | 185cm |
Playing Positions/Role: | GA/GS |
Previous Positions: | GA/GS/WA |
Netball Career Highlights: | Making the NZSS & NZu21 squads |
Age Started Playing: | 8 years old |
Best thing about playing Netball: | Being surrounded by passionate, hard-working people; getting to travel; playing an awesome game; winning; being part of something bigger than myself :) |
Previous National Squads: | NZ u/21, NZSS, South Africa u/17 |
Other interests: | Web Design, Engineering, Indoor Volleyball, Beach Volleyball, Skulling/Rowing, Recruitment, Graphics Design |
Hobbies/Passtimes: | Electronics, crafts, reading, singing&playing guitar, kayaking, shopping, you-tubing, drawing/painting, nannying :) |
Role Models/Heroes: | Netball-wise: Irene van Dyk & Sharelle McMahon |