updated birth_place domesticyears domesticteams nationalcaps nationalyears birth_date article_title nationalteams name positions
2015-06-24 adelaide , australia 2004 -- 06 1997 -- 2003 auckland diamonds adelaide thunderbirds 95 1991 -- 2003 16 july 1969 kathryn harby-williams
 australia kathryn harby-williams gd , wd
kathryn harby-williams

kathryn harby-williams -lrb- born 16 july 1969 -rrb- is an australian netball player and television presenter .
she currently works with radio sport new zealand and is a sky tv commentator for sky sport 1 's live netball coverage of the anz championship and international tests , along with former silver ferns tania dalton and anna stanley , and with co-australian national representative natalie avellino ; she also co-hosts the weekly netball show `` on court '' with stanley .
one of the most successful players of her era , she represented australia for twelve years -lrb- 95 caps -rrb- in her usual positions of goal defence and wing defence , including four years as captain from 2000 to 2003 .
she was victorious at two world championships in 1995 and 1999 , and part of the team winning gold at the commonwealth games in 1998 and 2002 .
stemming from her failure to be selected in a representative team in her teenage years , she would take 100 sprints up a 30-metre hill as a regular pre-season training .
at another time after spraining her ankle in a match against new zealand , despite missing court training she managed to put in four kilometres in the pool next day .
she was the inaugural captain of the adelaide thunderbirds in the commonwealth bank trophy national league from 1997 until 2003 , after she retired from australian netball and moved to new zealand to take up a position as a reporter with the `` sport 365 '' news programme .
harby-williams made a brief comeback in new zealand , playing two seasons with the auckland diamonds in new zealand 's national league , the national bank cup .
at the age of 34 she was selected as the league 's most valuable defence player .
she announced her retirement at the end of the 2005 season in order to focus on pursuing her television and radio career , but returned to the diamonds in 2006 .
after returning to australia in 2013 for commentating for sky sports nz , she starting commentating for fox sports in the anz championship .
harby-williams is also a selector for the australian national team .
