Geva Mentor: NPA "push forward the agenda's that are important"

Geva Mentor has recently announced her retirement from Netball closing her time at Team Bath & Surrey Storm, Sunshine Coast Lightning & Collingwood Magpies in the Suncorp in Australia and more recently her second season at Leeds Rhinos.

On announcing her retirement Geva was quick to acknowledge the work the Netball Players Association have given her as a member here in the UK and also abroad.

"The NPA aren't just going into things in the dark, they're learning from other players associations from different sports and are really making sure that they're capitalising and pushing forward the hot topics at the moment. So, whether that's female health, the professionalism of the game and what that looks like for athletes and the well-being space.... there's a lot going on behind the scenes and we don't necessarily see all of it but we receive those benefits later on. "

Rhinos v Dragons NSL 2025 Photo credit - Morgan Harlow

Geva has this request for members playing in the Superleague that have yet to join

"I really encourage every athlete that is part NSL - which I know not everyone is at the moment - to sign and join up because it is for that greater good and the more we have on there the stronger voice we have and that voice is about the players and it's about actioning things that happen. "

"It's not just waiting till things potentially go wrong or sidetracked to then get the NPA involved. It's about having that support all the way through the highs and the lows"

It is not only NSL players who can be members of the NPA, there is also a NXT GEN membership offered at a discounted rate of £25. All membership sign ups can be done here and are for the whole season - memberships bought from now will be for season 25-26. Netball Players Association (NPA) | Membership

What's next?

"When you've been living in this this bubble of elite sport and then suddenly have to move into kind of say "civilian life" I feel ready for that, for me probably the terrifying thing is income and where that's going to come from but I've approached my life with "Go With The Flow" and that's exactly what I'll do in the next chapter.

"For the past 2 seasons at Rhinos I probably should've been easing myself out, but if someone says something's impossible I like to prove them wrong and prove to myself as well."

"I'll still take those planners into my everyday life which I think will help keep me organised. But to be able to have a lot more blocks of free time, to be able to say yes to things and to be able to go to places and do things. I'm very much looking forward to that. It suits my lifestyle."

"I just feel really humbled by the effort and support that everyone has shown me and the messages I've received, I'm still going through so many of them and it's just it's really heart-warming and it's really humbling."

Thank you Andy Lamb from the Netball Show for collating the article above. To hear the full interview find The Netball Show wherever you get your podcasts.