Geva Mentor and Rebecca Bulley are rolling back the years and proving age is no barrier on the modern netball court
Despite the intense physical pressure the game puts on the body, elite netball players are getting older. In the last 10 years, the average age of a player in Australia’s national league has increased by 1.7 years, with 23% of players now aged 30 or over.
Sunday’s Super Netball preliminary final sees two of the competition’s oldest squads go head-to-head – the Sydney-based Giants have an average age of 27.6; the Sunshine Coast Lightning, 28. Interestingly, both of these teams were new to the competition in 2017, along with the Collingwood Magpies who have an average age of 27.7, making the three newest teams also the three oldest.
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