Tamsin Greenway (born 6 October 1982) is a former England netball international. She was a member of the England teams that won bronze medals at the

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and at the

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and 2015 Netball World Cups. Between

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and

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she played in eight

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grand finals for three different teams –

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, Surrey Storm and

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. During this time she won five Netball Superleague titles as a player and/or coach and a sixth as a director of netball. Greenway also works as a netball pundit for

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. In 2020, she was appointed head coach of the Scotland national netball team.

Early life and education

Greenway is originally from

Desford Desford is a village and civil parish in the Hinckley and Bosworth district of England, west of the centre of Leicester and around 7 miles north east of Hinckley. Situated on a hill approximately 400 feet above sea level, the parish includes t ...

Leicestershire Leicestershire ( ) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire to the north, Rutland to the east, Northamptonshire to the south-east, Warw ...

. She was educated at the local community primary school and

Bosworth Academy Bosworth Academy (formerly Bosworth Community College) is a coeducational secondary school located in Desford, Leicestershire, England and is part of the LiFE Multi-Academy Trust. It was a Sports College under the UK's Specialist School Programm ...

. In addition to

netball Netball is a ball sport played on a rectangular court by two teams of seven players. The primary objective is to shoot a ball through the defender's goal ring while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own. It is one of a ...

, in her youth she played various sports including

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

and

field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...

. Between 2001 and 2004 she studied Media Production at the

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Playing career

Team Bath

Between 2003 and

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Greenway played for

. In 2004, she was a member of the Team Bath squad that won the

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. In 2005–06 she was a member of the Team Bath squad that won the inaugural

title. She was also a member of Team Bath squads that won further titles in 2006–07 and 2008–09. Along the way she also played in her first two Netball Superleague grand finals in

and

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. Her teammates at Team Bath included, among others,

Sara Bayman Sara Francis-Bayman ( Bayman, born 23 December 1984) is an English former netball player and coach from Billinge near Wigan, England. She is currently an Assistant Coach for the West Coast Fever in the Suncorp Super Netball. Playing career ...

, Rachel Dunn, Jess Garland, Pamela Cookey,

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and

Geva Mentor Geva Kate Mentor CBE (born 17 September 1984) is a former England netball international and current Netball Super League player for Leeds Rhinos Netball. She has competed for England in six Commonwealth Games, winning a historic gold medal a ...

Queensland Firebirds

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and

Greenway played for

Queensland Firebirds Queensland Firebirds are an Australian professional netball team based in Brisbane, Queensland. 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 pl ...

in the

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Surrey Storm

Between

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and

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 ...

, Greenway played for Surrey Storm. Greenway served Surrey Storm as team captain, player/coach and director of netball. Under her leadership Surrey Storm played in five out of the six

grand finals between

and

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

. After finishing as runners up in the first three, Surrey Storm won their first Netball Superleague title in

and then retained the title in

. In 2015, Greenway initially announced she was retiring as a player.

Wasps

In 2016, Greenway was appointed as the first director of netball for new

franchise,

. Greenway guided Wasps to two successive Superleague titles in

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and

. She also came out of retirement as a player and played in two further grands finals. Her Wasps teammates included Rachel Dunn, Bongiwe Msomi, Natalie Haythornthwaite,

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and Jade Clarke. In July 2018, Greenway announced she was stepping down as Wasps director of netball.

England

Between 2004 and 2015 Greenway made 67 senior appearances for

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. She made her senior debut during a series against

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. She previously represented England at under-19 and university levels. She subsequently represented England at the

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. She was a member of the England teams that won bronze medals at the

and at the

and 2015 Netball World Cups. She was also a member of the England team that won the silver medal at the 2010 World Netball Series. ;Notes * Played for a World 7

Coaching career

Scotland

In February 2020, Greenway was appointed head coach of

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Television

Greenway works as a netball pundit for

. In 2011, she appeared as a

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fan in the ''Soccerette'' segment of ''

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''. She has also appeared as a guest on ''

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''.

Personal life

Between 2012 and 2016 Greenway was in a relationship with the TV presenter

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. They had a daughter together named Jamie Jeane Lovejoy (b. 2013). In November 2019, Greenway announced the birth of her second child, Casey Jaxx, with fiancé Jo Feldman.

Honours

;

**''Winners'': 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09: 3 *

**''Winners'': 2004 ; Surrey Storm *

**''Winners'':

: 2 **''Runners up'':

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: 3 ; Wasps Netball *

**''Winners'':

: 2 ;

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**''Runners Up'':

; World 7 *

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**''Winners'':

References

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