{"id":565038,"date":"2026-08-10T21:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/565038\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T21:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T21:10:10","slug":"former-silver-ferns-captain-ana-noovao-dies-aged-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/565038\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Silver Ferns captain Ana Noovao dies aged 58"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">In 2007, she coached Cook Islands to seventh place at the 2007 Netball World Cup<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">During her career, Noovao made the decision not to play on Sundays for religious reasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">Netball New Zealand\u2019s website describes her as \u201ca strong and mobile attacker with a calm temperament. Noovao\u2019s strongest hand was often as an impact player where she thrived\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">Noovao has been described by friends and family on social media as a beloved mum, daughter, sister, grandmother, Aunty and friend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">Fellow former Silver Fern Marg Foster said she was devastated by the news commenting on a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAna was one of the best roomys [sic] , she was an awesome captain, very calm and steady,\u201d Foster said. \u201cI am devastated she has left our world early. Ana was so inspiring.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"BXSdIJQrZoWgYbVqzX\" style=\"display:none\">Her brother, Meti Noovao, also represented the Cook Islands in rugby league and made one appearance for the Warriors in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2007, she coached Cook Islands to seventh place at the 2007 Netball World Cup During her career,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[21939,18919,114304,13381,6179,7126,10541,2740,111,139,278104,69,7457,213],"class_list":["post-565038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-21939","tag-aged","tag-ana","tag-captain","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-ferns","tag-former","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-noovao","tag-nz","tag-silver","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}