Maddy Proud

Maddy Proud (born 4 December 1993) is an Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league, playing for the New South Wales Swifts.

Maddy Proud
Personal information
Born (1993-12-04) 4 December 1993[1]
Adelaide, South Australia[2]
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
School Sacred Heart College (Adelaide)
Netball career
Playing position(s): C, WA
Years Club team(s) Apps
2011–16 Adelaide Thunderbirds 44
2017– New South Wales Swifts

Proud grew up in Adelaide and was signed by the Adelaide Thunderbirds in 2011 at only 16 years of age.[2] She would go on to play 44 games for the Thunderbirds and feature in the Southern Force premiership in the Australian Netball League in 2012.[1] Proud switched to the New South Wales Swifts ahead of the 2017 Suncorp Super Netball season, the inaugural season of the new competition and won the club's season MVP award that year.[1] Proud has remained at the Swifts since then and is also a children's author, having released a book chronicling the life of a 13-year-old netballer in her first year at high school in January 2018.[3] In February 2019 she was appointed captain of the Swifts.[4]

She represented Australia in the 2018 Fast5 Netball World Series.[5]

References
  • Proud, Maddy (2018). Grace on the Court. Australia: Black Inc. ISBN 9781760640330.
  1. "Maddy Proud". New South Wales Swifts.
  2. Maddy Proud (8 September 2018). "Perception versus reality". Players Voice.
  3. "Maddy Proud author: NSW Swift enters season as a published writer". The Sydney Morning Herald. 13 January 2018.
  4. "Proud Named Swifts Captain Ahead Of 2019 Season". Super Netball. 28 February 2019. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
  5. "Maddy Proud brought into the Australian team replacing Kate Moloney". Fast5worldseries.com.au.
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