Marlize de Bruin
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| Born | 11 November 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relative | Luan de Bruin (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Pretoria | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marlize de Bruin (born 11 November 1994) is a South African sportswomen. As a netball player, she played for UP-Tuks in Varsity Netball and for Gauteng Jaguars in the Premier Netball League. She also represented the South Africa national netball team at the 2016 Fast5 Netball World Series. As a rugby sevens player, she represented the South Africa women's national rugby sevens team at the 2022 Rugby World Cup Sevens and at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
De Bruin was born and raised in Pretoria[1] and attended Afrikaanse Hoër Meisieskool.[2] Between 2015 and 2020, she attended the University of Pretoria where she gained degrees in education and sports management and trained to be a teacher. During her training she worked as a teacher at Afrikaans Hoër Meisieskool and as a netball coach at Pretoria High School for Girls.[1][3][4][5] Her older brother, Luan de Bruin, is a professional rugby union player.[6][7][8][9]
Netball
UP Tuks
Between 2014 and 2019, de Bruin played for UP-Tuks in Varsity Netball.[2][5][4][10] In the 2016 Varsity final she was named Player of the Match, despite finishing on the losing team.[11][12] In 2017, together with Shadine van der Merwe and Ine-Marí Venter, she was a member of the first UP Tuks team to win the Varsity title.[13] In 2019 she was vice captain as UP-Tuks won their second title.[1][14] While playing for UP-Tuks, de Bruin became known as "South Africa's fittest netball player".[7][15][16] For the 2021 Varsity Netball competition, de Bruin served as an assistant coach to UP-Tuks head coach, Jenny van Dyk.[17][18][19]
Gauteng Jaguars
Between 2015 and 2022, de Bruin played for Gauteng Jaguars in the Premier Netball League.[20][21][22][23] She was a prominent member of the Jaguars team that won five successive PNL titles between 2017 and 2021.[6][7][24][25] In 2017 and 2018 she also played for Jaguars in the Netball New Zealand Super Club tournaments. In 2018, together with Shadine van der Merwe and Ine-Marí Venter, she was a member of the Jaguars team that defeated Southern Steel, the 2018 ANZ Premiership premiers.[26][27][28][29][30] In 2019 and 2021, de Bruin also served as Jaguars captain.[18][19][31] In 2021, she captained Jaguars to their fifth successive league title. She also finished the season as Best Overall Player.[32][33]
South Africa
In 2016, 2018 and 2021, de Bruin played for the Netball South Africa President's XII in Diamond Challenge tournaments.[34][35][36] In 2021, she captained the President's XII.[37] She has also represented South Africa at Fast5 and university level.[15][16] She played for South Africa at 2016 Fast5 Netball World Series.[38][39] She was also a member of the South Africa team that were runners up at the 2018 World University Netball Championship.[4][40] De Bruin has also been included in senior South Africa training squads. However, she always found herself behind experienced captain Bongiwe Msomi.[17][41][42] Ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Netball South Africa awarded players professional contracts for the first time. De Bruin was one of 24 players to receive a contract.[17][43][44]
