LONDON, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago ace goal shooter Samantha Wallace-Joseph will take up a new challenge in England with the Loughborough Lightning for the 2025 Netball Super League (NSL) season.
For the new season set to begin in March, Wallace-Joseph joins the 2023 and 2024 winners alongside recruits Rose Berri Neil, who spent three years at London Pulse, South American international Shadine van der Merwe, and former Vitality Rose and Commonwealth Games gold medallist Jodie Gibson.
Lightning head coach Vic Burgess said she was confident the new signings would bolster the team’s chances of winning a third consecutive title.
“As back-to-back defending champions, we know a target will be on our back. With this in mind, we’ve recruited exciting players across the court to ensure we’re in a position to battle for silverware again,” Burgess said.
Wallace-Joseph, who played for the New South Wales Swifts in Australia’s Super Netball League (SNL) last season, signed to play with the defending NSL champions after leaving the Swifts in June by mutual agreement. The 30-year-old joined the Swifts in 2017 and helped lead them to titles in 2019 and 2021.
Back in April, Wallace-Joseph apologized for a social media post that caused hurt to members of the transgender community, saying it was “taken out of context.”
It was not confirmed if this was part of the reason she and the Swifts parted ways. Wallace-Joseph recently returned to the court after a knee injury sidelined her for two years.
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