Natalie Metcalf
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Born |
Barrowford, England | 9 December 1992||||||||||||||||
Height | 174 cm (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
School | Ss John Fisher and Thomas More RC High School | ||||||||||||||||
University | University of Leeds & Leeds Beckett University | ||||||||||||||||
Netball career | |||||||||||||||||
Playing position(s): WA, GA | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Club team(s) | Apps | |||||||||||||||
2010–2015 | Yorkshire Jets | ||||||||||||||||
2016 | Manchester Thunder | ||||||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Wasps Netball | ||||||||||||||||
2018–present | New South Wales Swifts | ||||||||||||||||
Years | National team(s) | Caps | |||||||||||||||
2015–present |
![]() | 46 | |||||||||||||||
(Correct as of 8 July 2019[1]) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Natalie 'Nat' Haythornthwaite (born 9 December 1992) is an English netball player.[2][3] She was part of the England squad that won gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[4] Haythornthwaite played for Manchester Thunder and Wasps Netball in the English Superleague, winning consecutive premierships with the Wasps in 2017 and 2018.[5] She played for the New South Wales Swifts in the Australian Super Netball league as a replacement player for some games in late 2018, before being permanently picked up by the Swifts for the 2019 season.[6][1] Despite an injury-interrupted start to the season, Haythornthwaite was selected in the England 12-player squad for the 2019 Netball World Cup.[7]
She signed a contract extension with the Swifts through to the end of the 2020 season.[8]
References
- ^ a b "Nat Haythornthwaite (player profile)". nwc2019.co.uk. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
- ^ "Natalie Haythornthwaite". Gold Coast 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Natalie Haythornthwaite ready to tackle Aussies on home turf in Commonwealth Games". Lancashire Telegraph. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Result - Netball Gold Medal Match". Gold Coast 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2018.
- ^ "Natalie Haythornthwaite signs for Wasps Netball". Sky Sports. 2 September 2016.
- ^ "Natalie Haythornthwaite: England attacker leaves Wasps Netball to join NSW Swifts". BBC Sport. 3 September 2018.
- ^ "England squad for the Vitality Netball World Cup revealed". 23 May 2019. Archived from the original on 25 May 2019.
- ^ "Garbin And Haythornthwaite Re-sign With Swifts". Super Netball. 15 August 2019.
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Keighley
- English netball players
- Netball players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games competitors for England
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for England
- Commonwealth Games medallists in netball
- New South Wales Swifts players
- 2019 Netball World Cup players
- English expatriate sportspeople in Australia
- Wasps Netball players
- Manchester Thunder players
- Netball Superleague players
- Leeds Carnegie/Yorkshire Jets players
- Suncorp Super Netball players