Fowler surpasses 6000 goals

Former Southern Steel goal shoot Jhaniele Fowler shoots for the West Coast Fever this season on...
Former Southern Steel goal shoot Jhaniele Fowler shoots for the West Coast Fever this season on her way to 6000 national league goals. Photo: Getty Images
Jhaniele Fowler chalked up a milestone in green on Saturday.

It was one she achieved more than half of in blue, though.

The former Southern Steel goal shoot surpassed 6000 national league goals on Saturday.

She achieved the feat during the West Coast Fever’s Super Netball preliminary final loss to the Giants.

It continues a prolific career for the Jamaican, who over nearly a decade has been one of the dominant players in both New Zealand and Australia.

In her Steel career she scored 3374 goals in a stint that spanned from 2013 to 2017 — the final year coming in the ANZ Premiership following the transtasman competition split.

She scored 50 or more goals in a single game 32 times in Steel colours.

That it is a milestone reached only three other times — twice by Jennifer O’Connell and once by George Fisher.

Notably it also included a remarkable 70-goal night against the Mainland Tactix in 2017.

Since moving to the Fever in 2018 she has been similarly dominant, regularly topping Super Netball’s goal-scoring charts.

This season she finished with 883 goals at 96%, putting her a long way ahead of second-placed Collingwood Magpies shooter Shimona Nelson on 614.

In each of the past three seasons she has been named the competition’s player of the year, to go with the three ANZ Championship Most Valuable Player awards she won with the Steel.

■The Super Netball final, between the Giants and the New South Wales Swifts, is scheduled for this Saturday.

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