This year's Fast5 World Series will serve as Silver Ferns shooting legend Irene van Dyk's final farewell to international netball.
The star shooter, who announced her retirement from test netball earlier this year, has been included in the Fast Ferns line-up for the two day tournament. Van Dyk's retirement just six weeks out from the Commonwealth Games caught much of the netball world off guard, with many saddened by the thought there was no proper send-off for the world's most-capped netballer in her final test.
The Fast5 tournament in Auckland in November presented the opportunity for the sporting public to properly farewell the one of New Zealand netball's greatest servants.
Van Dyk, who was today elected to the New Zealand Olympic Committee's athletes foundation, said she couldn't resist putting her name forward for selection to play in the Fast5 Ferns team.
"I am just so stoked," she said.