Anna Stanley

Infobox netballer
name = PAGENAME
previousname = Anna Rowberry


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1976|3|31
birthplace = Christchurch, New Zealand

Anna Stanley, ("née" Rowberry; born March 31, 1976 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand netballer, who captained the national team (the Silver Ferns), to win the 2003 Netball World Championships in Jamaica.

She led the Silver Ferns to a drought-breaking series win over Australia (the first since 1989) in the winter of 2004, and played for the Auckland Diamonds in the National Bank Cup national league in 2004 and 2005.

In 2004 she suffered a knee injury during the Silver Ferns' clean sweep series win over arch-rivals Australia. In 2005, after several months of rehabilitation, she returned to the court for the Auckland Diamonds. She returned to the Silver Ferns in October of that year, and was a member of the Commonwealth Games gold medal–winning team of March 2006.

Stanley is married to former All Black Jeremy Stanley. Only a few weeks into the 2006 National Bank Cup season, she announced that she was pregnant and would be retiring from netball to concentrate on her family life, thus ending a fluctuating but successful career on the court.

External links

* [http://www.xtramsn.com/sport/0,,3829-2312776,00.html Brief biography] on xtramsn.com