In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:She went on to earn 39 caps in the Silver Ferns by the end of 2006 . Sentence 2:but was not selected for the 2007 World Netball Championships squad , subsequently retiring from netball to focus on beach volleyball , partnering with Susan Blundell .
but