Romelda Aiken is a Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

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. Aiken debuted for the Jamaican national team

The Sunshine Girls (team)

The Jamaica national netball team, commonly known as the Sunshine Girls, represent Jamaica in international netball competition. Netball is the number one women's sport in Jamaica and the majority of the schools in Jamaica participate. Netball receives full media coverage on television, radio and...

 in 2005 as a replacement for regular shooter Elaine Davis

Elaine Davis

Elaine Davis is a Jamaican international netball player. Davis debuted for the Jamaican national team during the 1995 Netball World Championships against Barbados, and has played goal shooter for most of her career. Throughout her career she competed in four Netball World Championships and three...

. The 1.96 metres (6.4 ft) shooter rose to international prominence during the 2007 Netball World Championships

2007 Netball World Championships

The 2007 World Netball Championships was the 12th staging of the World Netball Championships, a quadrennial international netball world championship co-ordinated by the International Federation of Netball Associations , inaugurated in 1963....

. In 2008, Aiken signed with the Queensland Firebirds

Queensland Firebirds

The Queensland Firebirds are an Australian netball team based in Brisbane that currently compete in the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. The Firebirds were formed as one of the foundation teams of the Commonwealth Bank Trophy , previously the premier netball league in Australia, which was contested...

 to play in 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...

 in Australia and New Zealand.

Former Australian

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...

 captain Liz Ellis

Liz Ellis

Elizabeth "Liz" Ellis AM is a retired Australian netball player, a member of the national team from 1992 until 2007 and captain for the last four of those years. She is the most capped international player for Australian netball....

 has predicted that "if she [Aiken] can keep this up for a long time she will undoubtedly be one of the best [players] ever."

External links

• 2010 ANZ Championship profile