Sarah Klau: Suncorp Super Netball 2020 - Our Stories

See what NSW Swifts and Australian Diamonds defender Sarah Klau is made of.
After making her elite debut with the Adelaide Thunderbirds, Sarah left her home state of South Australia and ventured to Sydney when Suncorp Super Netball replaced the trans-Tasman Netball League in 2017.
Despite being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes and having to manage the disease 24/7, both physically and mentally, Sarah has never taken a backward step. Instead her netball career has thrived and now she’s regarded as one of the premier defenders in world netball.
The NSW Swifts caused the biggest upset in Suncorp Super Netball history, taking out the 2019 Grand Final against the Sunshine Coast Lightning despite not having won a game against the then back-to-back Premiers all season. For Sarah, who had just come back from representing Australia at the 2019 Netball World Cup in England, it would be a career-defining game.
She dominated the much-fancied Lightning attack in a Grand Final performance for the ages. Now she has made Sydney her home away from home, living with a number of Swifts teammates including fellow South Australians captain Maddy Proud and Diamonds defender Maddy Turner
While a diagnosis could have knocked her off track, it only proved she was made of something special: resilience.