Shimona Nelson (born 1 December 1998) is a

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netball Netball is a ball sport played on a court by two teams of seven players. It is among a rare number of sports which have been created exclusively for female competitors. The sport is played on indoor and outdoor netball courts and is specifical ...

player in the

Suncorp Super Netball Suncorp Super Netball is the top level netball league featuring teams from Australia. In 2017 it replaced the ANZ Championship, which also included teams from New Zealand, as the top level netball league in Australia. Since 2019, the league has ...

league, playing for the

Collingwood Magpies The Collingwood Football Club, nicknamed the Magpies or colloquially the Pies, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL), the sport's elite competition. The club w ...

Career

Nelson broke into the senior

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in early 2017 in a test series against

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and has also represented Jamaica at Under-21 and

Fast5 Fast5 (originally called Fastnet) is a variation of netball featuring shortened games and goals worth multiple points. The new format was announced by the International Federation of Netball Associations (IFNA) (now the International Netball Fed ...

level. Nelson was selected by the

Adelaide Thunderbirds Adelaide Thunderbirds are an Australian netball team based in Adelaide, South Australia. Since 2017 they have played in Suncorp Super Netball. Between 2008 and 2016, they played in the ANZ Championship and between 1997 and 2007, they played ...

as a replacement player for the injured

Cat Tuivaiti Cathrine Tuivaiti (née Latu; born 25 October 1986 in West Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand netball player of Tongan, Samoan, and Māori descent. Career Early career Cathrine Tuivaiti was a member of the New Zealand Secondary Schools ...

in the 2018 season, and played most games in a winless season for the Thunderbirds. Nelson moved to Melbourne-based Super Netball team the

at end of the season, joining the Magpies squad for two years.

Super Netball statistics

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Magpies Magpies are birds of the Corvidae family. Like other members of their family, they are widely considered to be intelligent creatures. The Eurasian magpie, for instance, is thought to rank among the world's most intelligent creatures, and is o ...

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Personal life

Nelson currently studies a Bachelor of Psychological Science at

Deakin University Deakin University is a public university in Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1974, the university was named after Alfred Deakin, the second Prime Minister of Australia. Its main campuses are in Melbourne's Burwood suburb, Geelong Waurn P ...

. Nelson elected to pursue netball instead of playing

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in the

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References

External links

Magpies Netball profile

Super Netball profile

Netball Draft Central profile
1998 births Jamaican netball players Adelaide Thunderbirds players Collingwood Magpies Netball players Living people Suncorp Super Netball players Jamaican expatriate netball people in Australia Commonwealth Games medallists in netball Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Jamaica Netball players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Sportspeople from Kingston, Jamaica Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Jamaica-netball-bio-stub