Catherine Cox is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n netball

Netball

Netball is a ball sport played between two teams of seven players. Its development, derived from early versions of basketball, began in England in the 1890s. By 1960 international playing rules had been standardised for the game, and the International Federation of Netball and Women's Basketball ...

 player. Cox has played regularly for the Australian national team

Australia national netball team

The Australia national netball team, commonly known as the Australian Netball Diamonds, represent Australia in international netball tests and competitions. The team was formed in 1938 and played in the first international game of netball, against New Zealand...

 since her first appearance in 1997 and is a member of the ANZ Championship

ANZ Championship

The ANZ Championship is the pre-eminent netball league in the world. The competition is held annually between April and July, comprising 69 matches played over 17 weeks. It is contested by ten teams, five from Australia and five from New Zealand...

 team West Coast Fever

West Coast Fever

The West Coast Fever are an Australian netball team based in Perth that currently compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The franchise was one of the foundation teams of the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, formerly the premier domestic league in Australia. They contested every year of the...

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Early life and career

Catherine Cox was born in Whangarei, New Zealand but moved with her family to Australia when she was six.

Cox started playing netball at age 11, starting at the Hills District Netball Association in New South Wales. By 1992 she had represented New South Wales

New South Wales

New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

 at under 17 level. She was first represented her country at Under 21 level in 1994.

She was first selected for the Australian national team squad in November 1996 and made her Australian team debut in 1997 against South Africa, aged 21.

Commonwealth Bank Trophy era

Cox's next Australian appearance was in the 1999 Test Series in Australia against England. After a knee operation at the end of 1999, Catherine co-captained the Perth Orioles for the next two seasons. She was selected ahead of shooters Vicki Wilson

Vicki Wilson

Vicki Wilson, OAM, is an Australian netball coach and retired international player.-Netball career:Wilson was a part of the Australian national netball team for fifteen years, making her debut in 1985...

 and Jenny Borlase in the Australian team in 2000, but did not maintain her place.

In 2002, she joined the Sydney Swifts

Sydney Swifts

The Sydney Swifts were an Australian netball team, playing in the national Commonwealth Bank Trophy. They were based out of Acer Arena and Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre in the suburb of Homebush. Following the 2003 demise of the Sydney Sandpipers, the Swifts were the only team representing the...

 and shared shooting roles with Jane Altschwager

Jane Altschwager

Jane Altschwager is an Australian netballer. Altschwager started her netball career in 1994 playing for New South Wales, in the Australian State Netball League, somehow, despite being a 14 year old in South Australia. In 1997 she signed with the Sydney Swifts in the inaugural Commonwealth Bank...

, Megan Dehn

Megan Dehn

Megan Dehn is an Australian international netballer from Woy Woy, New South Wales. A former Australian representative player, she currently plays in the ANZ Championship for New Zealand–based team the Northern Mystics....

 and Susan Pratley

Susan Pratley

Susan Pratley is an Australian netball player, who plays goal attack or goal shooter. She has been a member of the Australian national team since 2006, replacing the likes of Eloise Southby-Halbish, Megan Dehn, and Cynna Kydd...

 and contributed to the Swifts consecutive grand final appearances from 2003 to 2007, with success in 2004, 2006, and 2007.

Cox appeared for the national team at the 2002 Commonwealth Games

2002 Commonwealth Games

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 and played after half-time in the double over-time final win over New Zealand. She appeared for Australia in the 2003 Netball World Championships

2003 Netball World Championships

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, and played the last quarter of the grand final loss by two goals to New Zealand. Cox also played for Australia's successful team at the 2007 World Championships

2007 Netball World Championships

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 in Auckland.

ANZ Championship era

Cox captained the New South Wales Swifts

New South Wales Swifts

The New South Wales Swifts are an Australian netball team based in Sydney that compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The Swifts were formed in 2007 as an amalgamation of two teams from the Commonwealth Bank Trophy – the Sydney Swifts and the Hunter Jaegers...

 in the inaugural ANZ Championship

ANZ Championship

The ANZ Championship is the pre-eminent netball league in the world. The competition is held annually between April and July, comprising 69 matches played over 17 weeks. It is contested by ten teams, five from Australia and five from New Zealand...

 season in 2008 and was awarded player of the match in the grand final win against Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic. In June 2010, Cox played her 200th domestic match against the Melbourne Vixens

Melbourne Vixens

The Melbourne Vixens are an Australian netball team in Melbourne that compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The team were formed in 2007 as an amalgamation of the Melbourne Phoenix and Melbourne Kestrels from the previous Commonwealth Bank Trophy. Sharelle McMahon and Bianca Chatfield have...

, the second Australian to reach that milestone after Sharelle McMahon

Sharelle McMahon

Sharelle Jane McMahon is an Australian netball player and former captain of the Australian national netball team...

. Cox was vice-captain of the national team at the 2011 World Championship and played in the first half of Australia's one goal win over New Zealand in the final.

In August 2011, Cox lost the captaincy of the New South Wales Swifts and left to join West Coast Fever.