Sandra Helen Edge (born 26 August 1962 in Te Puia Springs) is a New Zealand

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coach and former international netball player. She captained the New Zealand under 21 team in 1982, aged 17. She debuted in the

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in Melbourne in 1985, against Australia. For the next ten years she played in a record 94 internationals and three world championships; the team won the world title in 1987. She became New Zealand team captain in 1994, and retired in 1995. The team defeated England and South Africa, and came third in the 1995 world championship. As a player she was noted as the best centre in the world.Sandra Edge at The New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame website
In 1990, Edge was awarded the

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. In the 1995 Queen's Birthday Honours, she was appointed a

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, for services to netball. She was inducted into the

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in 2002. Edge later became a netball coach, and in 2016 was appointed assistant coach for the

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in the new

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competition. In 2024, Edge was an inaugural inductee to the

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* ''Profiles of Fame: The stories of New Zealand’s Greatest Sporting Achievers'' by Ron Palenski (2002, New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, Dunedin) p. 15 {{DEFAULTSORT:Edge, Sandra 1962 births Living people New Zealand netball players New Zealand international netball players 1987 World Netball Championships players 1991 World Netball Championships players 1995 World Netball Championships players Netball players at the 1989 World Games New Zealand netball coaches ANZ Premiership coaches New Zealand Members of the Order of the British Empire Sportspeople from Gisborne, New Zealand People educated at Iona College, Havelock North People from Te Puia Springs Central Pulse coaches Netball players at the 1985 World Games World Games gold medalists for New Zealand World Games medalists in netball Medalists at the 1989 World Games 20th-century New Zealand sportswomen

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