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| Full name | Gina Crampton | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1991-12-07)7 December 1991 (age 34)[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| School | Wellington Girls' College | |||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Otago Otago Polytechnic | |||||||||||||||||||
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Gina Crampton (born 7 December 1991) is aNew Zealand netball international. She was a member of theNew Zealand teams that won the2019 Netball World Cup and the2021 Constellation Cup. Crampton was also a member of theSouthern Steel teams that won the2017 and2018 ANZ Premierships. She was named the2016 New Zealand ANZ Championship Player of the Year and the2019 ANZ Premiership Player of the Year. Crampton has captained both Southern Steel and New Zealand. Since2021 she has played forNorthern Stars.
Crampton grew up inWellington. She is the daughter of Ngaire and Colin Crampton. She has one brother, Flynn. Colin Crampton, playedbasketball forNelson Giants andNew Zealand in the 1980s. He later became chief executive ofWellington Water.[4][5] Between 2005 and 2009, Crampton attendedWellington Girls' College.[6][7][8] In 2009 she captained the school netball team as they played in national secondary schools tournaments.[4][9][10] In 2010 she moved toDunedin to studyphysical education at theUniversity of Otago. She completed her studiesOtago Polytechnic.[11][12]
In 2010 and 2011, Crampton represented Netball Otago in the Lois Muir Challenge, a second levelNew Zealand netball competition that was played concurrently with theANZ Championship.[13][14][15] In 2012 she played for Otago-Southland Remarkables, a combined Netball Otago and Netball Southland team. She was named the 2012 Remarkables MVP.[16][17][18]
Between2012 and2020, Crampton made 98 senior appearances forSouthern Steel, initially in theANZ Championship and later in theANZ Premiership.[19][20][21][22] In2016 she was a member of the Steel team that finished the season as ANZ Championship minor premiers. She was subsequently named the 2016 New Zealand ANZ Championship Player of the Year.[23][24][25][26] In2017 she was a member of the Steel team that won both the inauguralANZ Premiership andSuper Club titles.[27][28][29][30] In2018 she was vice-captain toWendy Frew as Steel went onto to retain their title.[31][32][33][34] In2019 and2020, together withTe Huinga Reo Selby-Rickit, Crampton co-captained Steel.[35][36][37]In 2019 Crampton was also named the ANZ Premiership Player of the Year.[35][38][39][40]
In September 2020, it was announced that Crampton would be switching fromSouthern Steel toNorthern Stars for the2021 ANZ Premiership season.[41][42][43] In May 2021, in a Round 2 match againstMainland Tactix, Crampton made her 100th senior league appearance.[21][22] Crampton made herself unavailable for the 2024ANZ Premiership season and the rest of the 2023Silver Ferns season after the 2023 Netball World cup to join her partner inNew York.[44]
| Season | Team | G/A | GA | RB | CPR | FD | IC | DF | PN | TO | MP |
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| 2017 | Steel | 0/0 | ? | 0 | 422 | ? | 3 | 10 | 28 | 22 | 16 |
| 2018 | Steel | 0/0 | ? | 0 | 462 | ? | 9 | 14 | 42 | 72 | 17 |
| 2019 | Steel | 0/0 | ? | 0 | 364 | 686 | 8 | 10 | 19 | 61 | 16 |
| 2020 | Steel | 0/0 | ? | 0 | 319 | 434 | 4 | 7 | 31 | 33 | 14 |
| 2021 | Stars | 0/0 | ? | 0 | 359 | 642 | 3 | 5 | 30 | 44 | 15 |
| 2022 | Stars | 0/0 | |||||||||
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Initially Crampton intended to take a year off international netball and theANZ Premiership 2024 season, however she was signed as a training partner for theGiants Netball. Crampton was no longer available for the 2025Suncorp Super Netball season due to pregnancy.
Crampton was offered a contract to play with theNSW Swifts for the 2026Suncorp Super Netball Season to replace the pregnantPaige Hadley, making her the ninth New Zealand player to play in the league for that season.
Crampton made her senior debut forNew Zealand on 9 October 2016 in the first test of the2016 Constellation Cup series againstAustralia. She had previously represented New Zealand at under-21 level and won the Aspiring Silver Fern award at the 2015 New Zealand Netball Awards.[1][45][46][47] She was a prominent member of the New Zealand team that won the2019 Netball World Cup.[48][49] Ahead of the2020 Netball Nations Cup, Crampton was included in the New Zealand leadership group. Together withJane Watson, she was named vice captain asAmeliaranne Ekenasio became captain.[5][50] She was also a member of the New Zealand team that won the2021 Constellation Cup.[51] On 3 March 2021, during the same series, Crampton, alongside Watson, co-captained the team in the absence of Ekenasio.[52] She was subsequently appointed New Zealand captain for the2021 Taini Jamison Trophy Series,[5][20][53][54][55][56] the2022 Netball Quad Series[57][58] and the2022 Commonwealth Games.[59][60]
Crampton is in a relationship withFaʻasui Fuatai, a formerNew Zealand national rugby sevens team andunder-20 rugby union team player.[5][7][8] In January 2025 Crampton and Fuatai announced they were expecting their first child.
| Year | Award |
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| 2015[1][80] | Aspiring Silver Fern |
| 2016[24][25][26] | New Zealand ANZ Championship Player of the Year |
| 2019[35][39][40] | ANZ Premiership Player of the Year |
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