Jade Clarke

Jade Clarke (born 17 October 1983 in Manchester, England)[1]  is an English netball player. Primarily a midcourt defender, Clarke was selected for theEngland national netball team in 2002, making her senior debut the following year against New Zealand. During her international career, she has competed at two Netball World Championships (2003 and 2007), two Commonwealth Games (2006 and 2010), and the 2009 and 2011 World Netball Series.[2]  Clarke plays domestic netball in the Netball Superleague, having played four seasons with Loughborough Lightning before switching to the Northern Thunder for 2009–10.[3]  In 2010, Clarke was signed to play in the Australasian ANZ Championship with New Zealand–based team the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic, as a Temporary Replacement Player for injured midcourter Peta Scholz.[4] [5]

In 2011 she was named as the captain of England, after the retirement of Karen Atkinson after the 2011 Netball World Championships. She captained them to a first ever gold medal in the 2011 World Netball Series. In 2012 she signed on to play for the NZ Franchise, Northern Mystics for the ANZ Championships. She has signed with the Canterbury Tactix for the 2013 season. After 2 seasons with the Canterbury Tactix Clarke signed with the Sydney based NSW Swiftssigning as their import player.