Jane Chimaliro (born 29 September 1985) is a clerk in the Malawian courts and a netball player who plays for

Malawi Malawi, officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast, and Mozambique to the east, south, and southwest. Malawi spans over and ...

in the positions of goal attack or wing attack.

Life

Chimaliro was born in 1975 and she was the last child of four. She was educated in

Mzuzu Mzuzu is the capital of Malawi's Northern Region and is the third largest city by population in Malawi. The city has 221,272 residents and 20,000 commuters (Mzuzu University students) with about 1.7 million people in its metropolitan area. It i ...

at Chibavi Community Day Secondary School and this is where she began to play netball. She played for local teams before she settled down in 2007 at Civonets Netball Club. She began work with the Malawian judiciary in 2009 and in 2011 she was chosen to join the national netball team who are known as the Queens. She has featured in two World Cup tournaments for Malawi in

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

and in

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

. In 2018 the Queens beat the number one netball team, New Zealand, and Chiliro takes pride in being on that team. She has also competed at the

Commonwealth Games The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 ...

on two successive occasions in

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

and

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

representing

. In 2023 she was the Queens' vice-captain and she spoke out concerning the payments that team members receive for representing Malawi. She complained that the payments had not been increased in over ten years. The Queens were a leading team and they had to train on a concrete surface as the stadium they used was not covered in asphalt which is the standard surface for international netball.

References

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