Anna Stanley
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 Anna Stanley facts

• She led the Silver Ferns to a drought-breaking series win over Australia (the first since 1989) in the winter of 2004, and played for the Auckland Diamonds in the National Bank Cup national league in 2004 and 2005
• The daughter of a former New Zealand player, Stanley had not played senior provincial netball when she was sent to her international debut against Jamaica in 1994
• Her career dipped to its lowest point when sidelined by selectors for 18 months, but she was recalled in 2002
• Stanley is renowned in netball circles as an outstanding athlete and for her speed through court and trademark bullet pass
• Stanley represented Otago, Canterbury and Auckland in New Zealand's top netball league
• In 2004, she suffered a knee injury during the Silver Ferns' clean sweep series win over arch-rivals Australia
• In 2005, after several months of rehabilitation, she returned to the court for the Auckland Diamonds
• She returned to the Silver Ferns in October of that year, and was a member of the Commonwealth Games gold medal–winning team of March 2006
• Only a few weeks into the 2006 National Bank Cup season, she announced that she was pregnant and would be retiring from netball to concentrate on her family life, thus ending a fluctuating but successful career on the court
• Stanley was named in the Waikato-Bay of Plenty Magic squad in New Zealand's top netball league in 2007, however she did not play this season for the team in the league