Grace Kara (

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Rasmussen; born 18 March 1988 in

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, New Zealand) is a New Zealand

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player of Samoan descent. Kara played in the

National Bank Cup The National Bank Cup was the pre-eminent national netball competition in New Zealand between 1998 and 2007. From 2008, it was replaced by the ANZ Championship. Format In the rounds, each team played every other team once, then the top four teams ...

for the

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from 2005 to 2007. She continued playing in Auckland for the Northern Mystics in the ANZ Championship, starting in 2008. She is the younger sister of fellow Mystics player Rachel Rasmussen and she is also the older sister of

Ann-Helen Rasmussen Ann Helen Nu'uali'itia also known as Ann-Helen Rasmussen née Rasmussen (born 29 May 1990) is a Samoan and New Zealand netball player of Samoan descent who represents both Samoa and New Zealand internationally and plays in the positions of wing at ...

. Kara was a member of the New Zealand U21 team from 2004 to 2009, winning gold (2005) and silver (2009) medals at the World Youth National Championships. In 2009, she travelled with the senior national team, the Silver Ferns, as a member of their extended training squad. Kara earned a place in the Silver Ferns lineup the following year, making her debut against Samoa. She later travelled to Delhi for the

2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...

, and was named in the 2010 Fastnet Ferns for the

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. She suffered a season ending ACL injury in 2011, which left her out of the end of year squad. She made the squad again for the 2012–13 season, and was named in the twelve for the Australian leg of the 2012 Quad Series, but a stress fracture left her unable to take part. In 2017 she joined Northern Stars where she almost immediately became the captain of the ANZ Premiership team. In 2018 she announced that she is pregnant.

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