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Catherine Cox

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Catherine Cox played 108 tests for Australia between 1997 and 2013, becoming just the fourth Australian to reach 100 caps after fellow greats Vicki Wilson, Sharelle McMahon, and Liz Ellis, and she shot more than 2,000 goals for the Diamonds at an average of over 21 goals per test appearance. She won World Cup gold with Australia in both 2007 and 2011, adding a silver medal from the 2003 World Netball Championships, a 16-year international career spanning three different tournament victories at the sport's highest level. Cox was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame, an honor Netball Australia specifically framed around her sustained scoring output across more than a decade wearing the green and gold, rather than any single standout tournament. Her combination of 108 Australian caps and back-to-back World Cup titles in 2007 and 2011 has made Cox one of the most statistically productive goal shooters in the history of Australian netball.

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