Laura Clemesha (born 21 January 1992) is a retired Australian

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player.

Career

Clemesha grew up in the south-eastern Queensland city of Toowoomba and was school captain of her private secondary school

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, before moving to the

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for university and her netball career. She debuted for the Queensland Firebirds in the ANZ Championship competition in 2013 and was part of the team's back-to-back premiership successes in 2015 and 2016. After being utilised off the bench in those years, Clemesha was re-signed to a more high-profile role ahead of the 2017 season, replacing long-time captain

Laura Geitz Laura Geitz (born 4 November 1987) is a former Australian netball player and former captain of the Australian national team. Geitz was selected for the 2008 Australian national team, and has won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, ...

at goal keeper. She continued to play in that role for several years before announcing her retirement at the end of the 2019 season. Clemesha came out as gay in 2017 in a piece for her local newspaper ''The Caboolture News''. Clemesha completed a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Class 1 Honours) in 2017 and a Master of Organisational Psychology in 2020 at the University of Queensland.

References

External links

Queensland Firebirds profile

Suncorp Super Netball profile

Netball Draft Central profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Clemsha, Laura 1992 births Living people Australian netball players Queensland Firebirds players Netball players from Queensland LGBT netball players Lesbian sportswomen Australian Institute of Sport netball players Australian Netball League players Queensland Fusion players Queensland state netball league players Australian lesbians Australian LGBT sportspeople People educated at Downlands College