Adelaide Thandeke Muskwe (born 21 August 1998) is a Zimbabwean netball player who represents

Zimbabwe Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozam ...

internationally and plays in the positions of goal defense and wing defense.

Life

Muske and her twin brother Admiral were born in 1998 at

Parirenyatwa Hospital Parirenyatwa General Hospital a hospital in Harare and is the largest medical centre in Zimbabwe. The hospital was formerly known as the Andrew Fleming Hospital and was named after the principal medical officer to the British South Africa Company ...

Harare Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the Capital city, capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its ...

, Zimbabwe. They moved to the United Kingdom when they were three. Her talents led to her attending

Ratcliffe College Ratcliffe College is a coeducational Catholic independent boarding and day school near the village of Ratcliffe on the Wreake, Leicestershire, approximately from Leicester, England. The college, situated in of parkland on the Fosse Way abo ...

near Loughborough where she trained with the elite netball team

Loughborough Lightning Loughborough Lightning may refer to one of three women's sports teams based at Loughborough University: * Loughborough Lightning (netball) * Loughborough Lightning (women's cricket) Loughborough Lightning were an English women's Twenty20 crick ...

and trained also at UK national camps. Adelaide is a Nottingham Trent University graduate in Sports Science and she has signed for the

Severn Stars Severn Stars are an English netball team based at the University of Worcester and the University of Gloucestershire. The team is named after the River Severn, which runs through Worcester and Gloucester, the home cities of the two universitie ...

netball team in 2019 who are based in Worcester. She was a member of the Zimbabwean squad which finished at eighth position during the

2019 Netball World Cup The 2019 Netball World Cup (also known as the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the INF Netball World Cup. It was held from 12–21 July 2019 at the Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, England with match ...

, which was historically Zimbabwe's first ever appearance at a

Netball World Cup The Netball World Cup is a quadrennial international netball world championship organised by the World Netball, inaugurated in 1963. Since its inception the competition has been dominated primarily by the Australia national netball team and t ...

tournament.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Muskwe, Adelaide 1998 births Living people Zimbabwean netball players Zimbabwean expatriate sportspeople in England 2019 Netball World Cup players Loughborough Lightning netball players Severn Stars players Netball Superleague players