Afa Rusivakula

Afa Rusivakula
Personal information
Full name Unouna Afa Rusivakula
Born (1992-06-22) 22 June 1992 (age 32)
Netball career
Playing position(s): goal shooter/goal attack
Years Club team(s) Apps
2015 Celtic Dragons
Years National team(s) Caps
Fiji

Unouna Afa Rusivakula (born 22 June 1992) is a Fijian netball player.[1]

Rusivakula began playing in Fiji with the Shine On team in the Lautoka Netball Association. She made her international Test debut for Fiji in the 2011 Pacific Netball Series against Papua New Guinea, playing at goal shooter/goal attack. She represented Fiji in the 2011 World Netball Championships and the 2015 Netball World Cup, and had reached 38 international caps by 2015. She played for the Capital Force in Fiji's Digicel Punjas Netball Super League in 2015 and 2016, winning the premiership in 2016; she also played for the Wardens Netball Club in the Suva Netball Association. Outside of sport, Rusivakula trained as a correctional officer.[2][1][3]

In December 2015, Rusivakula was signed by the Celtic Dragons in the United Kingdom's Netball Superleague as one of their international import players for their 2016 season.[4] She scored 48 points in her first game for the Dragons in February 2016.[5] For 2017, Rusivakula was signed by the new Northern Stars franchise in New Zealand's professional ANZ Championship competition as their import player.[6] She played in thirteen games in the 2017 season, scoring 122 goals with a percentage of 73.05%.[1] However, she was not re-signed for the 2018 season, with the club instead signing English captain Ama Agbeze as their import player.[7] Rusivakula played for Marama Vou, Netball Fiji's representative team, in the 2017 Netball New Zealand Super Club.[8]

  1. ^ a b c "Afa Rusivakula (FIJ)". ANZ Premiership. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Unouna Afa Rusivakula". Netball World Cup Sydney 2015. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  3. ^ "Media Guide 2015: New World Netball Series". Netball New Zealand. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  4. ^ "CELTIC DRAGONS ANNOUNCE THE SIGNING OF UNOUNA AFA RUSIVAKULA". Celtic Dragons. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  5. ^ "Netball: Celtic Dragons claim first win of the season". BBC Sport. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  6. ^ "New Zealand's newest netball franchise revealed". The New Zealand Herald. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Agbeze joins Stars in 2018". ANZ Premiership. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  8. ^ "8 Clubs 6 Days / Netball's Best in Nelson / (2017 Super Club) Media Guide" (PDF). www.netballnz.co.nz. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 February 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2022.