Karla Pretorius (née Mostert; born 12 March 1990) is a South African netball player, currently playing for the Sunshine Coast Lightning and the South Africa SPAR Proteas Netball. She plays in the positions of Goal Defence (GD) and Wing Defence (WD). International Career - Team Bath and Sunshine Coast Lightning Before joining the Sunshine Coast Lightning, Pretorius played for the UK based Team Bath in the Netball Superleaguealongside fellow Protea teammate Lenize Potgieter. Pretorius currently plays for Sunshine Coast Lightning in the Australian Super Netball league, and has won back-to-back premierships with the club (in 2017 and 2018). In 2017 she won the MVP award for her performance in the Grand Final. She then shared the club's Player of the Year award with teammate Stephanie Wood for their performance in the 2018 season. She was named in the Super Netball team of the year 2018. She is the first South African to feature in the Super Netball league. Unlike South Africa, in Australia netball is a professional sport, which means that Pretorius is being paid to do what she loves most. Pretorius and her husband, Werner Pretorius, married on 9 September 2017. On 13 December 2021, she announced her pregnancy and therefore had to withdraw from next year's competitions, promising to be back in 2023. South Africa SPAR Proteas Pretorius is the vice-captain of the SPAR Proteas. Pretorius holds 77 senior South African caps, including appearances at the Commonwealth Games (2014 and 2018) and the Netball World Cup (2015). She participated in the 2011 World Netball Series, held in Liverpool, UK, the INF Netball World Cup 2015 held in Sydney, Australia, the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games. Pretorius confirmed her status as one of international netball's standout defenders with a series of tenacious performances at the 2015 Netball World Cup held in Sydney, Australia. She made the most intercepts of any player – 28 in total – as South Africa finished fifth overall in the tournament. She also played for the Spar Proteas U/21 side and having made her international debut for the Proteas in 2011. Pretorius was named the Player of the Tournament at the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup held in Liverpool, England. South Africa finished fourth at the recent World Cup after managing to beat Jamaica by 55 goals to 52http://www.sabcnews.com/sabcnews/proteas-beat-jamaica-in-an-end-to-end-netball-world-cup-match/. The Proteas narrowly lost against world number 1 the Australian