Dream comes true for Giants star Jamie-Lee Price
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This is the photograph that Australian Netball World Cup squad member Jamie-Lee Price says is proof that dreams can come true.
In 2007 – two years after her father, Steve, joined the New Zealand Warriors NRL team – Price was thrilled to lead the Australian netball team into the arena for the opening ceremony of the World Cup tournament in Auckland.
Twelve years on Price will be a key member of the Diamonds team as they look to defend their world crown in England next month.
Shape of things to come: Jamie-Lee Price leads the Australian team out at the opening ceremony of the Netball World Cup in 2007.
Price said she and netball legend Liz Ellis have a vastly different recollection of their brief conversation before marching out on that night in 2007.
“Liz said to me, ‘you’re going to play for Australia aren’t you?’ I was so nervous I can’t remember what I said,” recalled Price before Sunday’s match between her Giants and Adelaide.
“She says I said I wanted to play for New Zealand – but that’s a lie! It’s always been my dream
to represent Australia.”
The Giants mid-courter was immersed in the Kiwi system and even trialled for the Silver Ferns before returning to Australia where her talent was quickly identified by selectors.
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