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Tania Dalton

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Tania Dalton (née Nicolson; 26 November 1971 – 1 March 2017)[1] was a New Zealand international netball player. She was part of the 2003 Netball World Championships winning Silver Ferns squad. She made 12 caps for the Silver Ferns in total, playing in the positions of goal shooter (GS) and goal attack (GA).

Dalton was a member of the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns from 1996–2004 and 2006–07; she was also named in 2005 but was forced out through injury. She played domestic netball for the Northern Force from 1998 until 2000, and the championship-winning Southern Sting from 2002–2006.

Retirement

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After retiring from playing professional netball, she worked as a netball commentator on SKY Sports for international tests, the ANZ Championship and National Championships, alongside former internationals Anna Stanley, Natalie Avellino, Kathryn Harby-Williams and Bernice Mene.

Dalton is also a part owner of the franchise food outlet chain, Pita Pit New Zealand Limited.[2]

Dalton collapsed on 23 February 2017 while playing a regular game of social touch rugby in her home town of Takapuna, Auckland. She was running at the time and was not injured in the game. She was immediately hospitalised in a critical condition with a ruptured internal carotid artery aneurysm.[2] On 28 February 2017, her family turned off her life support. She died the next day, on 1 March, at the age of 45.[3]

References

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  1. "Get to know the Silver Ferns". NZ Girl. Archived from the original on 4 August 2008. Retrieved 17 March 2010.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Former Silver Fern Tania Dalton critically ill after collapsing at touch rugby". 26 February 2017 – via New Zealand Herald.
  3. "Netball great Tania Dalton 'put up fight of life', but couldn't win". New Zealand Herald. 1 March 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.