Silver Ferns
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| ceo = Raelene Castle
| captain = {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Adine Wilson]]
| coach = {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Ruth Aitken]]
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| caps = {{flagicon|New Zealand}} [[Lesley Rumball]] (nee Nicol) 115 Caps
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The '''Silver Ferns''' is the national [[netball]] team of [[New Zealand]], and are named after the [[Silver Tree Fern]] (''[[Cyathea]] dealbata''). They are coached by [[Ruth Aitken]] and their governing body is [[Netball New Zealand]].
==Silver Ferns Full Squad (November 2007)==
* [[Adine Wilson]] (née Harper) - Captain ([[Southern Steel]])
* [[Maree Bowden]] ([[Canterbury Tactix]])
* [[Leana de Bruin]] (née du Plooy) ([[Northern Mystics]])
* [[Irene van Dyk]] ([[Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic]])
* [[Paula Griffin]] ([[Northern Mystics]])
* [[Joline Henry]] ([[Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic]])
* [[Laura Langman]] ([[Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic]])
* [[Sheryl Scanlan]] ([[Northern Mystics]])
* [[Julie Seymour]] ([[Canterbury Tactix]])
* [[Jodi Brown]] (née Te Huna) ([[Canterbury Tactix]])
* [[Maria Tutaia]] ([[Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic]])
* [[Casey Williams]] ([[Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic]])
* [[Daneka Wipiiti]] ([[Southern Steel]])
* [[Lania Barret-Chasse]] ([[Southern Steel]])
* [[Debbie White]] ([[Southern Steel]])
* [[Katrina Grant]] ([[Southern Steel]])
==Competitive history==
The '''Silver Ferns''' are currently Commonwealth champions and runners up at the latest World Championships. Since the [[International Federation of Netball Associations|IFNA]] [[Netball World Championships]] began in [[1963]] the Silver Ferns have placed in the top three each time; they have placed first in [[1967]] ([[Perth, Western Australia|Perth]]), [[1987]] ([[Glasgow]]), and [[2003]] ([[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]]), and first equal with [[Australia]] and [[Trinidad and Tobago]] in [[1979]] ([[Port of Spain]]).
The Silver Ferns also received a silver medal in the [[1998 Commonwealth Games]] ([[Kuala Lumpur]]) and [[2002 Commonwealth Games]] ([[Manchester]]), plus the gold medal in the [[2006 Commonwealth Games]] ([[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]).
As of [[2003]], the Silver Ferns are the highest ranking team on the [[IFNA World Rankings]]. Australia lost their World title to the Silver Ferns in [[2003 Netball World Championships|Jamaica 2003]]. The Silver Ferns are the current World Netball Champions.
During 2004 the Silver Ferns crushed traditional rivals Australia in a historic 3-0 series win -their first clean sweep against Australia since 1989.
In 2005 the World Champions won against Australia 61-36 in Auckland NZ, New Zealand's biggest winning margin over Australia since their 19-goal victory in 1981, while they also surpassed their previous highest score against their trans-Tasman rivals. The Auckland match emphatically confirmed New Zealand were the best in the world, after beating Australia by seven goals in June.
Irene van Dyk becoming the world's most-capped netballer in racking up her 129th test, while captain Adine Wilson played in her 50th test and Vilimaina Davu in her 100th. Irene van Dyk netted 41 from 43 attempts at goal to return a 95% shooting rate. The Silver Ferns marched through 2005 unbeaten in all 8 international games, with comfortable series victories over England and Australia, capping the year with a tri-series triumph over Jamaica and Barbados. But after recent losses to England and Australia, coach Ruth Aitken says they need to lift their game or else another world title is unlikely.
== [[Netball World Championships|Netball World Championship]] Record ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year(s)!!Result
|-
|[[2007 Netball World Championships|2007]]|| Second [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
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|[[2003 Netball World Championships|2003]]|| First [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]
|-
|[[1999 Netball World Championships|1999]]|| Second [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
|-
|[[1995 Netball World Championships|1995]]|| Third [[Image:Med 3.png|Bronze]]
|-
|[[1991 Netball World Championships|1991]]|| Second [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
|-
|[[1987 Netball World Championships|1987]]|| First [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]
|-
|[[1983 Netball World Championships|1983]]|| Second [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
|-
|[[1979 Netball World Championships|1979]]|| First (jointly) [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]
|-
|[[1975 Netball World Championships|1975]]|| Third [[Image:Med 3.png|Bronze]]
|-
|[[1971 Netball World Championships|1971]]|| Second [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
|-
|[[1967 Netball World Championships|1967]]|| First [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]
|-
|[[1963 Netball World Championships|1963]]|| Second [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
|-
|}
== [[Commonwealth Games]] Record ==
{| class="wikitable"
!Year(s)!!Result
|-
|[[2006 Commonwealth Games|2006]]|| First [[Image:Med 1.png|Gold]]
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|[[2002 Commonwealth Games|2002]]|| Second [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
|-
|[[1998 Commonwealth Games|1998]]|| Second [[Image:Med 2.png|Silver]]
|-
|}
==Some notable Silver Ferns of the past and present:==
* [[Irene van Dyk]]
* [[Temepara George]]
* [[Adine Wilson]] (née Harper)
* [[Belinda Colling]] (double international - representing New Zealand in basketball and netball)
* [[Donna Wilkins]] (née Lofthagen)(double international - representing New Zealand in basketball and netball)
* [[Vilimaina Davu]]
* [[Anna Stanley]] (nee Rowberry)
* [[Sandra Edge]]
* [[Julie Coney]]
* [[Bernice Mene]]
* [[Yvonne Willering]]
* [[Lesley Rumball]](nee Nicol) (Most games for NZ)
* [[Julie Seymour]] (née Dawson)
* [[Louisa Wall]] (became an MP in 2008)
==External links==
* [http://www.netballnz.co.nz/ Netball New Zealand's website]
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