The Latest Breaking News from Tactix

As the Tactix go their separate ways with their ANZ Premiership season over, centre Laura Malcolm heads home to the UK, before a special trip to South Africa. 

After a closely-fought ANZ Premiership regular season, three teams remain to contest the trophy. Merryn Anderson takes a look at how they got there, who missed out - and why.

From apprentice to head coach of the Mystics, former detective sergeant Tia Winikerei is leading to a new beat. And she's grateful to a netball legend for guiding her towards coaching, Suzanne McFadden discovers. 

The ball carriers at Tactix home games this season will remember those with melanoma - the first, coach Marianne Delaney-Hoshek's father, John. Merryn Anderson writes. 

A stalwart of netball in the south, Charlotte Elley has made the shift north to the Magic for this year's ANZ Premiership. And, she tells Merryn Anderson, she's keen to prove she's not a one-trick pony. 

Losing her mum at an early age, Ivari Christie found strength in netball. The explosive teen midcourter has now played her way into the Southern Steel, with help from a couple of Silver Ferns legends, Suzanne McFadden writes.

As the Silver Ferns enter their final matches before attempting to defend their Netball World Cup title in July, they'll be boosted by the return of defender Karin Burger. And Burger herself has a massive boost, in the form of her family and friends courtside for the first time. 

In a string of firsts, Black Fern Helen Mahon-Stroud was the first NZ women’s rugby captain, who scored the first try in the inaugural Rugby World Cup in 1991.

Electric defender Jane Watson is back in the Silver Ferns squad after the birth of her daughter, but she won't be rushing - she's prepared to play the long game before next year's World Cup