Grace Rasmussen on the court. Photo / Getty Images
Mystics netball player, Grace Rasmussen, shares her happy place with us.
The 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi was a pretty happy place for me. I was the wildcard selection into the Silver Ferns that year and I wasn't expecting to make the team.
I found out I made it a few months earlier, when I was in the car with my
sisters going to watch one of them play a club netball game and [former Silver Ferns coach] Ruth [Aitken] rang. She told me I'd made the team, and obviously I started screaming. I actually asked her if she was joking. When I got off the phone we had to pull the car over and I had a moment with my sisters.
I had only played a couple of international games before we travelled to Delhi. I played most of the games leading up to the play-offs, which was pretty exciting. I managed to get some court time against South Africa, so that was pretty special. I was playing goal attack at the time, and slotting my first shot was a nervous experience, but after that it was all go.
I didn't play in the semis or finals. But I was so emotionally drained just watching the final against Australia that it felt like I was on court. Towards the end of the game Maria [Tutaia] started cramping up and Ruth told me to warm up on the side, which was a huge thing for me. I was really nervous, even though I knew I probably wasn't going to go on.
