


Kate Alexandra Heffernan (born 7 October 1999) is a prominent New Zealand netballer and former international cricketer. A versatile midcourter, she currently represents the Silver Ferns internationally and has recently signed with the Adelaide Thunderbirds in Australia's Suncorp Super Netball for the 2026 season. 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.
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