Karla Pretorius

Karla Pretorius is a South African netball player, born on 12 March 1990, who plays goal defence and wing defence and is vice-captain of the South Africa national team. She made her international debut in 2011, holds 77 senior caps and has played at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the Netball World Cup from 2015, where she made 28 intercepts in 2015 and was named Player of the Tournament in 2019. At club level she played for the University of the Free State and the Free State Crinums, then for Team Bath in England, and became the first South African in Super Netball with the Sunshine Coast Lightning, winning back-to-back premierships in 2017 and 2018 and the Grand Final most valuable player award in 2017. She holds a master's degree in dietetics from the University of the Free State.