Katharine Hamilton

• Managing Director
• Coach
• Player
• Umpire

Katharine enjoys all aspect of netball (except GD, scoring and selecting).

She spent her winter Saturdays at Pukekohe Netball Centre as a player, a coach and an umpire. She was affiliated with a few different clubs across the years, but mainly with Puni Netball while her Mum was club president, with Katharine eventually becoming Puni's club captain until she left the area to teach. Once returning to the area after travelling, she taught and coached at Onewhero Area School, before leaving netball when her eldest was born. Her eldest started Future ferns in 2019, which finally gave Katharine the push to play again, this time on Thursday mornings at Franklin Pool & Leisure, where her Mum had played 30 years ago.

Katharine created the Goannas Netball Club at Waiuku Netball Centre after accidentally creating five teams for summer league at Pukekohe Netball Centre. As our fonder, she is our Managing Director, looking after the day to day running of the club, covering duties like accounting and communications.

She is currently recovering from a concsussion during twilight netball last year and is slowly working her way back into netball, with the goal to be back playing for Catch-All on Thursday mornings in term 3.

She also loves to umpire on a Saturday, plus at Franklin Pool & Leisure on Tuesday nights and Thursday mornings at Pukekohe Netball Centre too. As a high school and university student, she would travelling with Pukekohe's representative teams. She was also recruited into Counties Manukau Umpiring Development Squad, where she umpired at Pakaranga, Auckland and Manurewa, but she got her highest umpiring qualification through the support at Waiuku Netball Centre. Her previous umpiring qualifications had expired, but back under Eleanor Kitching mentorship at Waiuku on Saturdays she regained her Zone Umpring Badge and her NZ theory. So achieving her NZC umpire badge is her #1 netball goal for 2026.

The other leg of her netball chair is coaching. She loves to see players develop and teams working together as a unit on court. She is also Waiuku Netball Centres Coaching Coordinator and one of the Centre's Coach Developers (coaching the coaches). Her third netball goal for 2026 is to complete her Netball New Zealand Community Coaching Award level 1 & 2.

Outside of netball Katharine is a homeschool Mum to three children while running a business as a Bra Fit Stylist. She enjoys spending time around the water with her family; either in the pool, at the beach or on the boat.

Her vision for Goannas Netball Club is “to see players on the court enjoying a game she loves so much.”