Laura Geitz

Laura Geitz is an Australian netballer, born on 4 November 1987 and raised in Allora on the Darling Downs of Queensland, who captained the Australian national team, the Diamonds, after being first selected for it in 2008. As a goal keeper she took silver at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, gold at the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore and, as captain, gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, which ended a twelve year gold drought for Australia. At club level she played for the AIS Canberra Darters in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy and then the Queensland Firebirds, winning the ANZ Championship with the Firebirds in 2011 and again in 2015, and she stayed with them for the first two seasons of Suncorp Super Netball. She retired from international netball in July 2018 with 71 caps and from the domestic game later that year with 169 league caps. She won the league's Player of the Year award in 2011 and 2014 and the Liz Ellis Diamond in 2011. A bronze statue of her stands at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre, and she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2025.