10 Facts About Tanya Dearns

Tanya Jane Dearns is a New Zealand netball coach and former netball player.

Tanya Dearns played 31 international matches for the New Zealand team between 1990 and 1998, including at the 1991 World Netball Championships.

Tanya Dearns's father worked for the Post Office and the family lived in various towns in the North Island, including Hastings, Auckland, and Tauranga.

Tanya Dearns completed with the national side at the 1993 World Games in The Hague, coming second behind Australia.

Tanya Dearns was head coach of the Capital Shakers in 2001 and 2002, before moving to Napier in 2003 to become Netball Eastern regional manager.

Tanya Dearns returned to coaching for a year in 2006, leading the Western Flyers in the National Bank Cup.

Tanya Dearns then took up a position as general manager of the Napier Golf Club, before being appointed assistant coach of the Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic for the 2013 ANZ Championship season.

Tanya Dearns succeeded Robyn Broughton as coach of the Central Pulse for the 2016 ANZ Championship season.

However, the Pulse won just two of their 13 matches in 2016, and Tanya Dearns was replaced as coach by Yvette McCausland-Durie.

Tanya Dearns was head coach of the UWS Sirens in Scotland, before moving to the Cairns Netball Association in Queensland as operations manager at the end of 2018.