About The Author

Catherine Anne Cox (born 24 May 1976 in Whangarei, New Zealand) is an Australian netball player. Cox has played regularly for the Australian national team since her first appearance in 1997 and is one of only four players with more than 100 test matches. With Australia she won two World Championships and one Commonwealth Games. On club level she was active for the Australian Institute of Sport and Perth Orioles. She had afterwards her most successful time playing for the Sydney Swifts, winning the Australian championships of 2004, 2006, and 2007. In 2008 she captained the Sydney Swift’s successor team NSW Swifts when it won the inaugural Trans-Tasman championship. In 2012 and 2014 she joined West Coast Fever and Melbourne Vixens, respectively. Catherine Cox was born in Whangarei, New Zealand but moved with her family to Australia when she was six. Cox started playing netball at age 11, starting at the Hills District Netball Association in New South Wales. By 1992 she had represented New South Wales at under 17 level. She was first represented her country at Under 21 level in 1994.[4] She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. She was first selected for the Australian national team squad in November 1996 and made her Australian team debut in 1997 against South Africa, aged 21.