Joline Henry (born 29 September 1982 in Whanganui, New Zealand) is a New Zealand netball player. Henry is a current member of the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns, and has played for the

Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic are a netball in New Zealand, New Zealand netball team based in Hamilton, New Zealand, Hamilton. Between 1999 and 2007, they played in the National Bank Cup, Coca-Cola Cup/National Bank Cup league. Between 2008 ANZ C ...

(2008-2009) and the Northern Mystics (2010-2011) in the ANZ Championship. In 2012, Henry is with the Central Pulse for the 2012 ANZ Championship.

Early life

Joline Henry was adopted as tamaiti whāngai under tikanga Māori and raised by her grandparents.

Career

Henry started her professional career in 1999 as a 15-year-old playing for the

Western Flyers The Western Flyers were a New Zealand netball team which represented most of the Central, Southern and Eastern North Island in the National Bank Cup. The team was formed in 1998 and played all ten seasons of the competition. At the end of the 20 ...

in the Coca-Cola Cup (later the National Bank Cup). She moved to the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic after two years, winning two National Bank Cup titles in 2005 and 2006. Henry was selected for the Silver Ferns in 2003, and made her on-court debut the following year against

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. She missed out on the team for the

2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ...

in Melbourne, but was selected for the

2007 Netball World Championships The 2007 World Netball Championships was the 12th edition of the INF Netball World Cup, a quadrennial premier event in international netball co-ordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA). Sixteen nations contested the ...

in Auckland, where New Zealand finished runners-up. She was also included in the Silver Ferns side that won the inaugural World Netball Series in 2009 and the

2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...

in Delhi. With the start of the ANZ Championship in 2008, Henry remained with the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic. But in 2009, after eight years with the Magic franchise, Henry announced through her agent that she was moving to the Auckland-based Northern Mystics, following a contract dispute. She was joined by fellow Silver Ferns and former Magic teammate

Maria Tutaia Solonaima Maria Folau (née Tuta'ia; born 18 February 1987 in Tokoroa, New Zealand) is a retired New Zealand netball player. She played regularly for the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns. Early life Folau was born Solonaima M ...

for the 2010 season. Henry later on moved to the Central Pulse. She retired from international sport in 2014, and in 2016 took up a position at the Harrow International School in Hong Kong.

References

External links

2011 Silver Ferns profile2011 ANZ Championship profile
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