Helen Housby

Helen Housby
Personal information
Born (1995-01-19) January 19, 1995
Carlisle, Cumbria
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Netball career
Playing position(s): GA, GS
Years Club team(s) Apps
2013-2016 Manchester Thunder
2017-Present New South Wales Swifts
Years National team(s) Caps
2014-Present England 47
Medal record
Representing  England
Commonwealth Games
2018 Gold CoastNetball

Helen Housby is a professional English netball player, born 19 January 1995 in Carlisle, Cumbria.[1][2] Housby played for the Superleague side Manchester Thunder from 2013 to 2016, helping them to win the 2014 Superleague Grand-Final against rivals Surrey Storm. She currently plays for the New South Wales Swifts.[3]

Housby was selected as a member of the England national netball team that played at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 Netball World Cup.[4] She currently has 30 caps to her name, the first of which came at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games in a match against Wales.

Housby has also completed two years of her zoology degree course at the University of Manchester.[5] She continues to pursue her love of animals as a resident of Sydney, Australia (where she plays for NSW Swifts), enjoying the presence of creatures as diverse as dolphins, kangaroos and koalas (the latter now endangered by human encroachment on their habitat, a factor highlighted by the choice of a koala as mascot for the recent Commonwealth Games).

Helen was a key member of the England netball team that won the gold medal match against Australia at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia - denying victory to the hosts and their usual rivals for the title, New Zealand, who had been defeated by England earlier in the tournament. The England team had beaten Jamaica in the semi-final match (by just one point, won at the very last moment, as happened in the final); Jamaica had narrowly defeated England in Glasgow 2014 to take the bronze medal, while gold and silver were on that occasion contested by Australia and New Zealand, as they had been at every Commonwealth Games since 1998 when team sports were first added to the line-up.

References

  1. ↑ "Manchester Thunder - Helen Housby". England Netball. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Evans, Denice (13 May 2014). "Helen Housby: A netball star is born". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Helen Housby Player Profile". New South Wales Swifts website. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
  4. ↑ Evans, Denise (26 June 2015). "Tracey Neville names England netball World Cup Squad". Manchester Evening News. Trinity Mirror. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Could I be any more excited?". Players Voice. 29 April 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
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