- Margaret Foster
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Margaret Foster Personal information Full name Margaret Mary Anne Foster (née Bray) Occupation Netball coach Netball career Positions WA, C Updated on 5 November 2010. Margaret Mary Anne Foster, MNZM is a New Zealand netball coach and former Silver Ferns player. Foster played seven international matches from 1994–2001. She played domestic netball in the National Bank Cup for the Canterbury Flames, playing in 1998, 1999 and 2001.
Coaching career
Foster also coached the team in 2000 and from 2002–2007. Foster took the Canterbury Flames to five final appearances, losing each time to the Southland-based Southern Sting. She also previously coached the New Zealand A squad.[1]
After the National Bank Cup was replaced by the ANZ Championship in April 2008, Foster was replaced as coach of the Christchurch-based Canterbury franchise by Helen Mahon-Stroud. She pulled out of an offer to be head coach of the Northern Mystics, after Yvonne Willering was sacked from the position. Instead, Foster took up the role of assistant coach of the Southern Steel for the 2009 season.[2] She subsequently signed on as assistant coach of the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic for the 2011 season.[3] She was also appointed head coach for the Cook Islands netball development squad for 2011.[4]
Outside of netball
Foster was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. She later wrote a book, Silver Linings, about both her career and three-year battle with cancer.[5] In 2009, Foster was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit as part of the Queen's Birthday honours list, for services to netball.[6]
References
- ^ Williams, Katarina (25 April 2010). "Foster itching to pull side out of doldrums". The New Zealand Herald. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10640721. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
- ^ Seconi, Adrian (16 May 2009). "No division of loyalties for Foster". Otago Daily Times. http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/netball/56308/netball-no-division-loyalties-foster. Retrieved 18 March 2010.
- ^ NZPA (2 November 2010). "Marg Foster joins Magic coaching staff". Stuff.co.nz. http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/netball/4300762/Marg-Foster-joins-Magic-coaching-staff. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
- ^ http://www.cinews.com/2011/January/Wed19/sports.php#1101152007
- ^ Hepburn, Steve (29 April 2009). "Straight-shooting Foster made of the write stuff". Otago Daily Times. http://www.odt.co.nz/sport/netball/53325/netball-straight-shooting-foster-made-write-stuff. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
- ^ "Queen's Birthday honours - full list". The New Zealand Herald. 1 June 2009. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/frontpage-belt/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501129&objectid=10575669&pnum=0. Retrieved 1 June 2009.
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