Netballer Tayla Fraser on road to success with NSW Swifts in Super Netball
What a difference three years have made to this Baulkham Hills netball star now living her dream in Super Netball.
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In 2016 netballer Tayla Fraser was a teen with a dream and a NewsLocal junior star nominee.
Three years on Fraser is one of the rising stars of Australian netball and a regular in the world-class Super Netball competition.
“It feels like a lifetime ago,” the Baulkham Hills netball product said, who made her Super Netball debut this season with the NSW Swifts.
“I was at school still, in my second year of under 17s netball and I had just got a scholarship with the NSW Institute of Sport.
“The 17 year-old-me would have dreamt to be doing this, what I am doing now, playing professional netball. But I’m not sure if I would have believed I’d be here now.”
A string of injuries to the Swifts starting seven saw Fraser elevated from a training partner and into the 10-player game day squad for the first match of the season back in April.
I looked up into the stands and saw these people waving and thought ‘who is that?’
But it took until the Swifts were in Perth earlier this season for Fraser to make her long-awaited Super Netball debut against West Coast Fever.
The former Rouse Hill player now living in Kellyville rang her parents the night before her first game when she heard she was to take the court for the first time.
“We found out the starting seven the night before and I rang my parents and much to my surprise they were in Perth the next day to watch me debut,” she said.
“I looked up into the stands and saw these people waving and thought ‘who is that’. Then I realised it was them. It’s was everything. I adore my facility.
“I was so excited to see them.
“It just made it all so special.’’