Sandra Edge

Sandra Edge
MBE
Personal information
Born (1962-08-26) 26 August 1962 (age 62)
Te Puia Springs, New Zealand
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Netball career
Playing position(s): C, WA, WD
Years National team(s) Caps
1985–94  New Zealand 94
Coaching career
Years Team(s)
2017–present Central Pulse
Medal record
Representing  New Zealand
Netball World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1987 Glasgow Netball
Silver medal – second place 1991 Sydney Netball
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Birmingham Netball
Last updated: 24 May 2018

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

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]

References

  1. ^ Silver Ferns profile: Sandra Edge. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  2. ^ Sport Gisborne profile: Sandra Edge. Retrieved 25 May 2018.
  3. ^ a b Sandra 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. ^ "Silver Ferns great Sandra Edge named Pulse assistant coach". Newshub.co.nz. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Sandra Edge – Assistant Coach – Biography". www.pulse.org.nz. Archived from the original on 25 May 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2022.

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 ISBN 0-473-08536-4