Kate Heffernan
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| Full name | Kate Alexandra Heffernan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 October 1999 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relative(s) | Annette Heffernan (mother) Georgia Heffernan (sister) Maxine Blomquist (aunt) Shirley Langrope (cousin) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Hilda's Collegiate School | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Otago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kate Alexandra Heffernan (born 7 October 1999) is a New Zealand netball international and former cricketer. She represented the New Zealand national netball team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the 2023 Netball World Cup. She captained New Zealand at the 2024 Netball Nations Cup. In 2018, she also made two appearances for the New Zealand women's national cricket team.
Heffernan comes from a family of netball internationals: at the 2024 Netball Nations Cup, herself and her sister, Georgia Heffernan, became the third set of sisters to play international netball for New Zealand. Her mother, Annette Heffernan and her aunt, Maxine Blomquist, were the first set. However, the Heffernan sisters are the first sisters to actually play in the same team at the same time. A cousin, Shirley Langrope, was also a New Zealand netball international. As well as playing netball together for New Zealand, the Heffernan sisters have played together in several teams, including the Southern Steel netball team and the Otago Sparks women's cricket team.