Mo'onia Gerrard

Mo'onia Frances Gerrard, born on 15 November 1980 in Bathurst, is a former Australian netball player of Tongan descent who was later selected for Tonga. She won the 1999 Best New Talent Award with the Sydney Sandpipers in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, then played for the Sydney Swifts, for the Adelaide Thunderbirds, where she won the 2010 ANZ Championship, and for the New South Wales Swifts from 2011, co-captaining them in 2012 and 2013. For the Australian Diamonds she won the 2011 World Championship gold medal in extra time and the silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games, played 68 Tests and was named Australian International Player of the Year in 2010. In June 2023 she was selected for the Tonga squad at the 2023 Netball World Cup, and in 2013 the New South Wales Legislative Council commended her community service.