Helen Housby facts for kids
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| Born | 19 January 1995 Carlisle, England |
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| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||
| School | The Nelson Thomlinson School | ||||||||||||
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| Playing position(s): GA, GS, WA | |||||||||||||
| Years | Club team(s) | Apps | |||||||||||
| 2013–2016 | Manchester Thunder | ||||||||||||
| 2017–Present | New South Wales Swifts | ||||||||||||
| Years | National team(s) | Caps | |||||||||||
| 2014–present | England | 102 | |||||||||||
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Helen Housby MBE (born 19 January 1995) is a professional English netball player. She has represented the England national netball team since 2014. Housby played club netball for the Superleague side Manchester Thunder from 2013 to 2016, helping them win the 2014 Superleague Grand-Final against rivals Surrey Storm. Since 2017 she plays for the New South Wales Swifts.
Personal life
Housby was born in Carlisle and grew up in rural Cumbria surrounded by animals. An avid Manchester United F.C. fan, her role model was David Beckham. She studied zoology at the University of Manchester. A video of Housby performing a TikTok dance during an England game went viral in 2022. It was posted by the official Commonwealth Games TikTok account and viewed over 1.1 million times.
Club career
She played for the Superleague side Manchester Thunder from 2013 to 2016, helping them win the 2014 Superleague Grand-Final against rivals Surrey Storm. She joined the Australian side New South Wales Swifts for the 2017 season. She was part of the Swifts team that won the Suncorp Super Netball in 2019, and again in 2021.
International career
Housby was a member of the England national netball team that played at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2015 Netball World Cup.
She was a key member of the England netball team that won the gold medal match against Australia at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia - scoring in the final second of the game to give victory to England by one point. The England team had beaten Jamaica in the semi-final match by a single point, also from a last-minute goal. Jamaica had narrowly defeated England in Glasgow 2014 to take the bronze medal. The England team won BBC Sports Team of the Year Award and BBC Greatest Sporting Moment of the Year in 2018.
She was selected for England's 2019 Netball World Cup, and 2022 Commonwealth Games squad, finishing 3rd in both events. Housby was also part of the England team at the 2023 Netball World Cup. She was named player of the tournament and 'best shooter' as England lost in the final to Australia.
Housby was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours for services to netball.
