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Irene van Dyk
Irene van Dyk played international netball for two different countries across a 20-year career: 72 caps for South Africa from 1994 to 1999, then 145 more for New Zealand's Silver Ferns from 2000 to 2014 after relocating and becoming eligible for the black dress, retiring with a world-record 217 total test caps. She competed at five Netball World Cups — 1995 and 1999 for South Africa, then 2003, 2007, and 2011 for New Zealand — winning gold with the Silver Ferns in 2003, and reached the 200-test milestone in 2011, a mark no other netballer had approached at the time. Across her international career, van Dyk shot 5,917 goals from 6,572 attempts, a 90 percent conversion rate at the goal shooter position sustained over two decades and two national jerseys, and she remained New Zealand's most-capped Silver Fern at the time of her 2014 retirement. Van Dyk's combination of representing two different countries at netball's highest level and her world-record 217 test caps has made her one of the most statistically significant players in the sport's international history.
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Liz Ellis
Liz Ellis played a then-record 122 tests for Australia between 1993 and 2007, a total that made her the country's most-capped netballer at the position of goal keeper, and she won three World Championship titles with the Diamonds, in 1995, 1999, and 2007. She also won two Commonwealth Games gold medals, in 1998 and 2002, and domestically was the most-capped Commonwealth Bank Trophy player in history with 173 matches, adding four National Premierships with the Sydney Swifts in 2001, 2004, 2006, and 2007. Ellis's standing in the sport was formally recognized in 2008 when Netball Australia created the Liz Ellis Diamond, the sport's premier individual honor, awarded annually to the player judged to have combined outstanding international and domestic-league performance that year. Her combination of a then-record 122 Australian caps and three World Championship titles across a 14-year international career has made Ellis one of the most decorated defenders in netball history — significant enough that the sport's top individual award now carries her name.
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