Geva Mentor
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Geva Mentor with her 2018 Commonwealth Games gold medal. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Geva Kate Mentor | ||
| Born |
17 September 1984 Bournemouth, England | ||
| Height | 191 cm (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| School | St Peter's Catholic School | ||
| University | Swinburne University of Technology | ||
| Netball career | |||
| Playing position(s): GK, GD, WD | |||
| Years | Club team(s) | Apps | |
| 2001–2007 | Team Bath | 60+ | |
| 2008–2010 | Adelaide Thunderbirds | 46 | |
| 2009–2010 | → Surrey Storm | 14 | |
| 2011–2016 | Melbourne Vixens | 83 | |
| 2017–2018 | Sunshine Coast Lightning | 33 | |
| 2019–2023 | Collingwood Magpies | 42 | |
| 2024-2025 | Leeds Rhinos 32 | ||
| Years | National team(s) | Caps | |
| 2001–2023 | England | 175 | |
Medal record | |||
Geva Kate Mentor CBE (born 17 September 1984) is a former England netball international and current Netball Super League player for Leeds Rhinos Netball. She has competed for England in six Commonwealth Games, winning a historic gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. She was also a member of the England teams that won the bronze medal at the 2006 and 2010 Commonwealth Games and at the 2011, 2015 and 2019 Netball World Cups.
Mentor was a member of the Team Bath teams that won the 2005–06 and 2006–07 Netball Superleague titles. In 2008 she began playing in the ANZ Championship, winning premierships with the 2010 Adelaide Thunderbirds and the 2014 Melbourne Vixens. She captained the Sunshine Coast Lightning teams that won the 2017 and 2018 Suncorp Super Netball titles.
At the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games she read the Athletes Oath during the Opening Ceremony. In 2019 she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to netball.