Adelaide Muskwe

Adelaide Muskwe
Personal information
Full name Adelaide Thandeke Muskwe
Born (1998-08-21) 21 August 1998 (age 26)
Harare, Zimbabwe
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Occupation netball player
Netball career
Playing position(s): goal defense, wing defense

Adelaide Thandeke Muskwe (born 21 August 1998) is a Zimbabwean netball player who represents Zimbabwe internationally and plays in the positions of goal defense and wing defense.[1][2]

Life

Muske and her twin brother Admiral were born in 1998 at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe.[3] They moved to the United Kingdom when they were three.[4] Her talents led to her attending Ratcliffe College near Loughborough where she trained with the elite netball team Loughborough Lightning and trained also at UK national camps.[5] Adelaide is a Nottingham Trent University graduate in Sports Science and she has signed for the Severn Stars netball team in 2019[4] who are based in Worcester.

She was a member of the Zimbabwean squad which finished at eighth position during the 2019 Netball World Cup, which was historically Zimbabwe's first ever appearance at a Netball World Cup tournament.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Adelaide Muskwe". Netball World Cup. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 10 September 2019.
  2. ^ "Adelaide Muskwe". Netball Draft Central. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
  3. ^ Gwaze, Veronica. "Muskwe finds home in Gems camp". The Sunday Mail. Retrieved 23 September 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Heart-broken Zim looks to netball for salvation…Muskwe tipped to shine". NewZimbabwe.com. 12 July 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
  5. ^ "GO GOLD Profiles". www.lrsport.org. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Zimbabwe". Netball Draft Central. Retrieved 9 September 2019.