Laura Langman

Laura Langman is a retired New Zealand netballer, born on 16 April 1986, who played mainly in the midcourt and is the most capped player in the history of the Silver Ferns, having passed Irene van Dyk's record of 145 Tests in October 2018. She was selected for the New Zealand under 21 side while at Hillcrest High School in Hamilton, made her elite debut with the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic in 2003, joined the Silver Ferns that year and made her Test debut in 2005. She captained the 2005 under 21 team to World Youth Netball Championships gold and later captained the Silver Ferns, leading them to the 2019 Netball World Cup title. Her Silver Ferns medals include gold at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games and the 2009 World Netball Series and silver at the 2007 World Netball Championships. She played more than 225 national league games for four clubs, the Magic, the Northern Mystics, the New South Wales Swifts and the Sunshine Coast Lightning, with whom she won the 2017 premiership before retiring after the 2020 preliminary final. She was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2020 and was an inaugural inductee to the Netball New Zealand Hall of Fame in 2024.