Leeds Rhinos Netball signed England Netball superstar Geva Mentor CBE for the 2024 Netball Super League season.

The goal keeper, who has twice been named the World’s Best Netballer, will return to the UK after 16 seasons playing in the ANZ Championship and Suncorp Super Netball.

Mentor made her Vitality Roses debut in 2000 against New Zealand, aged just 16, and has never looked back, going on to represent her country in six Commonwealth Games and five World Cups.  She is on the verge of her sixth appearance in a World Cup as she gets set to play in the tournament for her country this month in South Africa.

The Bournemouth-born player began her career with Team Bath, before testing herself in Australia for the first time with Adelaide Thunderbirds where she played for three seasons.  She returned to the UK to play for Surrey Storm, but since 2010 she has been competing in Australia, firstly playing for the Melbourne Vixens for six seasons.

Here she was named in the All-Star team three times, became the first import to make 100 appearances and won the ANZ Championship in 2014.  In 2017 she signed for new franchise Sunshine Coast Lightning where she was named captain and led them to two Suncorp Super Netball titles.  For the last five years, she has played for Collingwood Magpies where she continued to receive acclaim and was named in the Team of the Year for the third time in 2020.

On the international scene, she won Commonwealth bronze in 2006 and 2010 and two world championship bronze medals, before winning gold in 2018 after beating Australia in an unforgettable Commonwealth Games final.  In 2015 she was voted the World’s Best Netballer and in 2017 won the accolade again. In 2018 she was awarded a CBE for her distinguished contribution to international netball.