| Intro | South African netball player | ||
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Athlete Netballer |
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| From | South Africa | ||
| Type | Sports | ||
| Gender | female | ||
| Birth |
2 June 1987, Kempton Park, South Africa |
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| Age | 33 years | ||
| Star sign | Gemini | ||
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Maryka Holtzhausen (born 2 June 1987) is a South African netball player. She plays in the positions of GA and WA. She is a member of the South Africa national netball team, and competed in the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi and the 2011 World Netball Championships in Singapore. She also participated in the 2010 World Netball Series and the 2011 World Netball Series, both held in Liverpool, UK. She played in the 2012 Quad Series, and in the same year, she won a bronze medal in 2012 Fast5 Netball World Series with the Fast5 Proteas.
Holtzhausen was the first player from her country to line up in the UK’s leading competition, the Netball Superleague, joining Loughborough Lightning for the 2015 season. She has also played for Free State Crinums and Spar Proteas She’s played for Severn Stars for the 2018 season and she’ll be back for the 2019 season.
In November 2018 Holtzhausen was the second player in South Africa national netball team history to receive her 100th cap.[2]