Casey Kopua

Casey Kopua, born Casey Williams on 19 June 1985, is a retired New Zealand netballer and a former captain of the national team, the Silver Ferns. She joined the Silver Ferns in 2004 and made her on court debut in 2005, and she had earlier helped the New Zealand under 21 side win the 2005 World Youth Netball Championships in Florida. In 2009 she became the twenty third captain of the Silver Ferns and in 2014 she became the most capped captain in the team's history. Her international medals include gold at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2009 World Netball Series, silver at the 2007 and 2011 World Netball Championships, and, after returning under coach Noeline Taurua, gold at the 2019 Netball World Cup, where she was named player of the match in the final. In domestic netball she spent her whole career with the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic from 2003. She was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2011, was an inaugural inductee to the Netball New Zealand Hall of Fame in 2024, and made brief injury cover appearances in Australia and New Zealand in 2025 and 2026.