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Sandra Edge

Sandra Helen Edge (born 26 August 1962 in Te Puia Springs ) [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a New Zealand netball coach and former international netball player. Edge was educated at Lytton High ...

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Sandra Helen Edge (born 26 August 1962 in Te Puia Springs)[1][2] is a New Zealand netball coach and former international netball player.

Edge was educated at Lytton High School.[2]She captained the New Zealand under 21 team in 1982, aged 17. She debuted in the Silver Ferns 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.[3] As a player she was noted as the best centre in the world.[3]

In 1990, Edge was awarded the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.[4] In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire, for services to netball.[5] She was inducted into the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame in 2002.[6]

Edge later became a netball coach, and in 2016 was appointed assistant coach for the Central Pulse in the new ANZ Premiership competition.[7][8]

In 2024, Edge was an inaugural inductee to the Netball New Zealand Hall of Fame.[9]

References

  1. ↑Silver Ferns profile: Sandra Edge. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  2. 12Sport Gisborne profile: Sandra Edge. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  3. 12Sandra Edge at The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame website.
  4. ↑Taylor, Alister; Coddington, Deborah (1994). Honoured by the Queen – New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Who's Who Aotearoa. p. 131. ISBN 0-908578-34-2.
  5. ↑"Queen's Birthday honours list 1995". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 17 June 1995. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  6. ↑"Halberg awards: Rowing twins share triumph". The New Zealand Herald. 1 March 2002. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  7. ↑ "La gran jugadora de las Silver Ferns, Sandra Edge, nombrada entrenadora asistente de Pulse" . Newshub.co.nz . 18 de octubre de 2016. Archivado del original el 24 de mayo de 2018. Consultado el 24 de mayo de 2018 .
  8. ↑ "Sandra Edge – Entrenadora asistente – Biografía" . www.pulse.org.nz. Archivado del original el 25 de mayo de 2018. Consultado el 27 de mayo de 2022 .
  9. ↑ "Netball New Zealand inaugura su Salón de la Fama" . RNZ News . 24 de febrero de 2025. Consultado el 30 de marzo de 2025 .

Lecturas adicionales

  • Perfiles de la fama: Las historias de los mayores triunfadores deportivos de Nueva Zelanda, por Ron Palenski (2002, Salón de la Fama del Deporte de Nueva Zelanda, Dunedin), pág.  15 ISBN 0-473-08536-4