Kimberlee Green

Kimberlee Green
Personal information
Born (1986-03-05) 5 March 1986
Height 176 cm (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)[1]
Spouse Trent Copeland
Relatives

Denise Langford (Mother)

Fred Green (Great-grandfather)
Netball career
Playing position(s): C, WA, WD
Years Club team(s) Apps
2002–07 Sydney Swifts and 55
AIS Canberra Darters
2008–present New South Wales Swifts 43
Years National team(s) Caps
2008–present  Australia 74
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
2014 GlasgowNetball
2010 DelhiNetball
World Netball Series
2009 ManchesterFastnet
World Netball Championships
2011 SingaporeNetball
2015 AustraliaNetball
Last updated: 25 June 2010

Kimberlee Green (born 5 March 1986 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian international netball player. Green is the captain of the Giants Netball team in the Suncorp Super Netball league.[2]

Biography

Green is the daughter of South Sydney Rabbitohs footballer Michael Green and Olympic & Commonwealth Games swimmer Denise Langford;[3] her great-grandfather is former New South Wales politician Fred Green. She is also married to New South Wales Blues cricketer Trent Copeland.[4]

Green played six years in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, for the Sydney Swifts and AIS Canberra Darters.[5] With the start of the ANZ Championship, Green signed with Sydney franchise the New South Wales Swifts, which won the inaugural championship in 2008. Later that year, she was selected for the Australian Netball Diamonds team.[3] During her international career, Green has won a bronze medal at the 2009 World Netball Series in Manchester, and a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, a gold medal at the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore and a gold medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

In 2011, for the first time for Australia, Green played at the Wing Defence (WD) position in the first of three tests against Jamaica. In 2014 Green was named in the Australian Netball Team to compete at the 2014 Commonwealth Games who went on to win gold. Green went on to captain to NSW Swifts in the 2014 season.

In 2017, she was appointed inaugural captain of the Greater Western Sydney Giants Netball team. She suffered a season-ending ACL injury in the Giants' round five win over the Adelaide Thunderbirds in Canberra.[6]

Awards

Netball Career Facts

References

  1. 1 2 "Kimberlee Green". netball.com.au. Netball Australia. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  2. ↑ "Green appointed inaugural captain". Giants Netball. 17 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 Forrest, Brad (12 August 2008). "Glamour girls of netball". St George and Sutherland Shire Leader. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  4. ↑ Lane, Daniel (10 October 2010). "A match made in ... sand dune hell". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  5. ↑ "2010 New South Wales Swifts profile: Kimberlee Green". Archived from the original on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
  6. ↑ Bain, Victoria (21 March 2017). "Green to miss remainder of season". GIANTS Netball. Retrieved 21 March 2017.
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