When Serena Guthrie left Team Bath in 2015, relocating to the netball strongholds of New Zealand and Australia for the peak years of her career, it was difficult to entertain serious thoughts that England could decisively shift the sport’s dial. The flow of talent was going one way, the national team was consistently a step behind the antipodeans and the domestic game’s growth was not rapid enough to provide a credible platform for players at the very top level.
On the day she turned 29, Guthrie returned to a stage that could hardly have appeared more different. These days English netball is confident, vibrant, comfortable in its own skin. Guthrie, the influential centre in the Commonwealth Games-winning national team, was back in her old team’s colours for the 2019 Netball Superleague opener and the sense of momentum was unmistakable.
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