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Millie Lees strived to find a balance as both a junior doctor and a Silver Fern. She s now an anaesthetist in a hospital in Manchester – and it s five years since she touched a netball.
Having struggled when their careers ended, a band of former Silver Ferns are committed to helping the next generation of top netballers smoothly transition from professional sport to everyday life. When Silver Fern Millie Lees left netball to pursue her medical career in England, she completely cut ties with the sport she d been smitten with. “When I first got here, I couldn’t watch a game,” Lees (now Poyser) writes from the English city of Manchester, where she’s an anaesthetist on a maternity ward. “I haven’t touched a netball in over five years.