Vanessa Marie Lee also known as Vanessa Lee (born 24 November 1983) is a Singaporean netball player and former captain of the Singapore national team who has been in international circuit since her debut in 2002. She has played at two World Cups in

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and has also represented

Singapore at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Singapore was represented at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne by a 101-member strong contingent comprising 63 sportspersons and 38 officials. Singapore won a total of 18 medals, 5 of them gold: its best ever performance at the Commonweal ...

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and at the

Asian Netball Championships The Asian Netball Championship is a netball competition held every two years with teams from across Asia competing. First 7 editions were held every four years, then changed to every two years starting from 2012. Sri lanka is the reigning champi ...

. Vanessa Lee is regarded as one of the finest netball players to have emerged from Singapore. She initially retired from international netball in 2012 after winning the

2012 Asian Netball Championships The 2012 Asian Netball Championships was the 8th edition of the tournament. The tournament was played at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka from 25 August to 31 August with ten Asian national netball teams. Final draw The final ...

defeating

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and made her comeback into international arena in 2016 after four years to lead the national side. In October 2018, she took a brief break from netball which meant she pulled out of the

2019 Netball World Cup The 2019 Netball World Cup (also known as the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the INF Netball World Cup. It was held from 12–21 July 2019 at the Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, England with matche ...

and

Charmaine Soh Charmaine Soh Shi Hui (born 24 March 1990) is a Singaporean netball player and captain of the Singapore national team who plays either as a goal attack or goal shooter. Charmaine officially captained the national side at the 2019 Netball World Cu ...

replaced her as the captain of the national side. In the same month, she was inducted into the Singapore Netball's Hall of Fame.

References

1983 births Living people Singaporean netball players Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore Southeast Asian Games medalists in netball Netball players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Singapore Competitors at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games Competitors at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent 21st-century Singaporean women {{Singapore-netball-bio-stub