Sandra Helen Edge (born 26 August 1962 in
Te Puia Springs
Te Puia Springs is a village on the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, located 103 km north of Gisborne.
Its population is estimated to be between 300 and 400 people. The village has a hospital and one shop. It has natural sp ...
) is a New Zealand
netball
Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ...
coach and former international netball player.
She captained the New Zealand under 21 team in 1982, aged 17. She debuted in the
Silver Ferns
The New Zealand national netball team, commonly known as the Silver Ferns, represent New Zealand in international netball. The team take their nickname from the Silver Tree Fern (''Cyathea dealbata''), which is National symbols of New Zealand, ...
in Melbourne in 1985, against Australia. For the next ten years she played in a record 94 internationals and three world championships; the team won the world title in 1987. She became New Zealand team captain in 1994, and retired in 1995. The team defeated England and South Africa, and came third in the 1995 world championship.
As a player she was noted as the best centre in the world.
[Sandra Edge at The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame website](_blank)
In 1990, Edge was awarded the
New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal
The New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal was a commemorative medal awarded in New Zealand in 1990 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, and was awarded to approximately 3,000 people.
Background
The New Zea ...
. In the
1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a
Member of the Order of the British Empire
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations,
and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
, for services to netball. She was inducted into the
New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame
The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame is an organisation commemorating New Zealand's greatest sporting triumphs. It was inaugurated as part of the New Zealand sesquicentenary celebrations in 1990. Some 160 members have been inducted into the Hall o ...
in 2002.
Edge later became a netball coach, and in 2016 was appointed assistant coach for the
Central Pulse
Central Pulse are a New Zealand netball team based in Wellington. Between 2008 and 2016, they played in the ANZ Championship. Since 2017 they have represented Netball Central in the ANZ Premiership. Netball Central is the governing body that r ...
in the new
ANZ Premiership
The ANZ Premiership is the top level netball league featuring teams from New Zealand. In 2017 it replaced the ANZ Championship, which also included teams from Australia, as the top level netball league in New Zealand. It is organised by Netball ...
competition.
References
Further reading
* ''Profiles of Fame: The stories of New Zealand’s Greatest Sporting Achievers'' by Ron Palenski (2002, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, Dunedin) p. 15
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1962 births
Living people
New Zealand netball players
New Zealand international netball players
1987 World Netball Championships players
1991 World Netball Championships players
1995 World Netball Championships players
Netball players at the 1989 World Games
New Zealand netball coaches
ANZ Premiership coaches
New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire
Sportspeople from Gisborne, New Zealand
People educated at Iona College, Havelock North
People from Te Puia Springs
Central Pulse coaches