Natalie Wicken

Natalie Wicken, born Natalie Nicholls on 6 December 1930, was a New Zealand netball player who grew up in Stoke and died in Christchurch on 12 July 2022. She played in the goal circle for the New Zealand team in the third Test against the touring Australian side at Auckland in 1948. At seventeen she was the youngest member of that team, and she was the first Nelson player chosen for New Zealand. She later played for Otago and Auckland and for their university teams, won New Zealand University blues for netball in 1950, 1951 and 1953, and in 1960 took part in the meeting in England at which the first standardised international netball rules were set.