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}} Irene van Dyk (née Viljoen; born 21 June 1972) is a South African-born New Zealand netball player. A goal-shoot, she is one of the world's best-known netballers and the most capped international player of all time.〔 Note: Some sources claim Mary Waya as the world's most capped netballer, but many of her caps (for Malawi) were not against full international sides.〕 Debuting in 1994, she represented South Africa 72 times and captained the team. In 2000 she moved to Wellington, New Zealand and was quickly picked for the national team, the Silver Ferns. This caused some minor controversy, as the only rule in netball at the time for players switching between nations was a ban on playing for more than one nation in a calendar year. She was the 2003 New Zealand Sportswoman of the Year and a nominee in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url =http://www.celebrityspeakers.co.nz/irene-van-dyk/ )〕 She became a New Zealand citizen in 2005, and represented New Zealand for 14 years before retiring from international netball in June 2014. Van Dyk still plays for the Central Pulse in the ANZ Championship. For most of her domestic career in New Zealand she played for the Waikato/Bay of Plenty Magic (2003-2013). ==Personal life== Irene van Dyk is a teacher, having worked in both primary and intermediate schools. She has one daughter named Bianca with her husband, Christie. Bianca followed her mother into netball. A Christian, Irene supported the "Lifeathon" fund-raising event for Christian music radio network Life FM. A 2002 biography about her by Russell Gray is called ''Changing Colours''.〔 Russell Gray ("Changing colours: the Irene van Dyk story" ) National Library of New Zealand. 2002 〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Irene van Dyk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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