{"id":87803,"date":"2023-02-22T15:39:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T04:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/?p=87803"},"modified":"2023-02-22T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T05:32:18","slug":"diamonds-champ-joins-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/bendigotimes\/sport\/diamonds-champ-joins-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds champ joins Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CAITLIN Thwaites is a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner, World Cup champion, Suncorp Super Netball premier, and nine-time Bendigo Sports Star monthly award winner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet somehow she never went on to take home the Bendigo Sports Star of the year award&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt&#8217;s a bit of a running joke in my family that I was a monthly award winner nine times, but I never actually won the yearly award,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, all that is forgotten now as Thwaites was inducted into the Bendigo Sports Star Hall of Fame last Friday night, an accolade she said she never saw coming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am in shock, it\u2019s such an honour,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThere are so many people who have given so much to sport in the area, so to be amongst those names, and I don\u2019t really feel like I deserve to be among them, just feels amazing.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thwaites has done nearly all you can do in an Australian netballer\u2019s career and she said picking a highlight was difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in her final year as a professional she won the Super Netball premiership with the Melbourne Vixens and said that was her fondest memory.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to COVID-19 the team was in a hub on the Gold Coast and Thwaites didn\u2019t know if she would see her ill father again when she made the tough decision to play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Commonwealth Games gold and the World Cup gold are real pinnacles of netball,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut I think the final year that I had with the Vixens and having to deal with so much adversity, and having to overcome COVID and restrictions and quarantine, and all the other barriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI could write a book about that year alone, but it was pretty epic and being able to finish up on that note, it was very special.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thwaites is now immortalised with the other Bendigo sporting legends in the Hall of Fame, even with the Sports Star of the Year award alluding her throughout her career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI could never win that damn thing,\u201d she said. \u201cAmongst my 18-year career I never managed to win it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut that goes to show the calibre of athletes that are constantly, year in and year out coming from the area.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAITLIN Thwaites is a Commonwealth Games gold medal winner, World Cup champion, Suncorp Super Netball premier, and nine-time Bendigo Sports Star monthly award winner. 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