Shamera Sterling
Jamaican netball player (born 1995)
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Shamera Sterling-Humphrey (born Shamera Sterling, 21 October 1995) is a Jamaican netball player.[2] She plays for Adelaide Thunderbirds in Suncorp Super Netball and was named Suncorp Super Netball Player of the Year in 2023.[3]
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| Born | 21 October 1995 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of the West Indies | |||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic career
Sterling played for Loughborough Lightning in the Netball Superleague in 2018, winning the Player of the Season and Players' Player awards.[4][5]
She moved to the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the Australian Super Netball league in the 2019 season.[6] In 2023, Sterling led the Thunderbirds to the club's first premiership in a decade, and her first. She was selected for the Club Champion Award and named Suncorp Super Netball Player of the Year, having led the league with 118 deflections.[7]
International career
Sterling was part of the Jamaican squad that won bronze at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[8] She was also part of the squad that won their first ever silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, losing to Australia in the final, after defeating New Zealand in the semis and beating Australia for the first time in a Commonwealth Games during the group stage[9][10] She was also part of the 2023 Bronze medal-winning team at the World Cup in Cape Town.
Personal life
Sterling grew up in Jamaica and describes how netball was an escape for her when her father was in prison.[11] Her junior club was Naldi Knights. She studies primary education[12] and attended the University of the West Indies, as did her husband.
She married her long-time partner, Andrew Humphrey in Montego Bay, Jamaica in December 2023.[13]