Cynna Kydd is a former Australian professional netball player. She played for the Melbourne Kestrels in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy from 2000 to 2006. She was also a frequent member of the Australian national netball team from 2003 to 2005. Her career was hampered by injury and poor form in later years.
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Cynna Kydd is a former Australian professional netball player. She played for the Melbourne Kestrels in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy from 2000 to 2006. She was also a frequent member of the Australian national netball team from 2003 to 2005. Kydd made the surprise decision at the beginning of the 2006 season to transfer to the club’s more successful rival, the Melbourne Phoenix. She lasted only one season before walking away from the club to travel overseas. She subsequently signed with New Zealand club Canterbury Flames for the 2007 National Bank Cup season, but withdrew her services before playing a game due to injury. She later moved to England, where she played mixed minor grade netball. She is currently studying tourism and hospitality at Victoria University in Melbourne. She has also played for New Zealand and South Australia in the netball competition. She won the Australian Institute of Sport’s Best New Talent award for netball in February 2001. Her career was hampered by injury and poor form in later years, and she struggled after being dropped from the national side in early 2005 and missing out on a return in time for the 2006 Commonwealth Games after sustaining a serious concussion late in the year. She continued to represent Australia in under-21 competition, and was selected again in the national open squad in the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
She also won the competition’s Most Valuable Player award for 2004. She currently lives in Melbourne with her husband and their two children, who she met at high school in Kyabram, a suburb of Melbourne, in the Victorian south-east. She previously played for local and Goulburn Valley representative teams as a teenager and, in 1998 at the age of 16, was selected to play for the dominant Eastside Netball Club in the state Dairy Farmers State League competition, alongside three national league players. At 188 cm tall, Kydd established a reputation as an effective shooter, and despite often missing matches as a result of her national U-21 team was a key part of the team. At the end of the 2001 season, two of the main stars, Shelley O’Donnell and Janine Ilitch, both announced they would be sidelined for most or all of the season because of pregnancy, and Kydd was called upon to fill the vacancy. She became an effective combination with goal shooter Amanda Burton, and although the Kest Rels struggled, she formed an effective team. In 2002 she was named in the Australian open team for the annual Australian National Netball Championships and the Youth World Cup in Wales. In 2003 she was selected in the U- 21 national squad to tour Jamaica in May, followed by a successful stint with the team aspart of the squad for the youth World Cup.
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