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{{Short description|New Zealand netball player}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2015}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=March 2015}}
{{Infobox netball biography
|name    = Grace Kara
|image   =
|caption =
|updated = 15 December 2017
|birth_name = Grace Rasmussen
|birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1988|3|18|df=yes}}
|birth_place = [[Auckland]], New Zealand
|death_date  =
|death_place =
|height       = {{height|m=1.77|precision=0}}
|relatives    = [[Rachel Rasmussen]] (sister)<br>[[Roma Rasmussen]] (sister)<br>[[Ann Helen Nu'uali'itia]] (sister)<ref>{{cite news|date=14 August 2010|access-date=22 January 2019|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/netball/4024128/Grace-Rasmussen-gets-attack-role|author=Sewell, Jane|title=Grace Rasmussen gets attack role|work=The Press}}</ref>
|spouse       = Mark Kara
|marrieddate  = 11 November 2017
|positions     = WA, C, GA
|clubteam1     = [[Auckland Diamonds]]
|clubyears1    = 2005–07
|clubteam2     = [[Northern Mystics]]
|clubyears2    = 2008–2013
|clubapps2     = 39
|clubteam3     = [[Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic]]
|clubyears3    = 2014–2017
|clubteam4     = [[Northern Stars]]
|clubyears4    = 2017–2018
|nationalyears1 = 2004–09
|nationalyears2 = 2010–2019
|nationalteam1 = New Zealand U21
|nationalteam2 = [[New Zealand national netball team|Silver Ferns]]
|nationalteam3 = FastNet Ferns
|medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry|{{NZL}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Netball World Cup]]}}
{{MedalSilver|[[2015 Netball World Cup|2015 Sydney]]|[[Netball at the 2015 Netball World Cup|Netball]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2010 Commonwealth Games|2010 Delhi]]|[[Netball at the 2010 Commonwealth Games|Netball]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Netball Series]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2010 World Netball Series|2010 Liverpool]]|[[Fastnet (netball)|Fastnet]]}}
|nationalcaps2=63<ref name="Silver Ferns"/>}}

'''Grace Kara'''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mynetball.co.nz/silver-ferns/team/squad.html|title=Squad|work=Silver Ferns Netball|access-date=11 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128132106/https://www.mynetball.co.nz/silver-ferns/team/squad.html|archive-date=28 January 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref> ([[née]] Rasmussen; born 18 March 1988 in [[Auckland]], New Zealand) is a former New Zealand [[netball]] player of [[Samoans|Samoan]] descent.<ref>{{cite web|author=Bertrand, Kelly|title=Silver Fern Grace Rasmussen's fairytale wedding|url=https://www.nowtolove.co.nz/lifestyle/weddings/silver-fern-grace-rasmussens-fairytale-wedding-35407|magazine=[[New Zealand Woman's Weekly]]|date=30 November 2017}}</ref> Kara played in the [[National Bank Cup]] for the [[Auckland Diamonds]] from 2005 to 2007. She continued playing in Auckland for the [[Northern Mystics]] in the [[ANZ Championship]], starting in 2008. She is the younger sister of fellow Mystics player [[Rachel Rasmussen]] and she is also the older sister of [[Ann-Helen Rasmussen]].

Kara was a member of the New Zealand U21 team from 2004 to 2009, winning gold (2005) and silver (2009) medals at the World Youth National Championships. In 2009, she travelled with the senior national team, the [[New Zealand national netball team|Silver Ferns]], as a member of their extended training squad.<ref name="Silver Ferns">{{cite web|url=http://www.olympic.org.nz/athletes/grace-rasmussen/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160216125438/http://www.olympic.org.nz/athletes/grace-rasmussen/|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 February 2016|title=Grace Kara|publisher=[[International Olympic Committee]]|access-date=22 January 2019}}</ref> Kara earned a place in the Silver Ferns lineup the following year,<ref>{{cite news|author=ONE Sport|title=One new cap for Silver Ferns|publisher=[[TVNZ]]|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/netball-news/one-new-cap-silver-ferns-3679271|date=30 July 2010|access-date=11 September 2010|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100802144712/http://tvnz.co.nz/netball-news/one-new-cap-silver-ferns-3679271}}</ref> making her debut against Samoa.<ref>{{cite news|author=Street, Toni|author-link=Toni Street|title=Rasmussen adds spark|publisher=TVNZ|url=http://tvnz.co.nz/netball-news/toni-street-rasmussen-adds-spark-3688159|date=8 August 2010|access-date=11 September 2010|archive-date=13 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110613213251/http://tvnz.co.nz/netball-news/toni-street-rasmussen-adds-spark-3688159}}</ref> She later travelled to Delhi for the [[2010 Commonwealth Games]], and was named in the 2010 Fastnet Ferns for the [[World Netball Series]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Johannsen, Dana|title=Wider Silver Ferns squad join defence of Fastnet title|work=[[The New Zealand Herald]]|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/netball/news/article.cfm?c_id=69&objectid=10681715|date=19 October 2010|access-date=22 January 2019}}</ref>

She suffered a season ending ACL injury in 2011, which left her out of the end of year squad. She made the squad again for the 2012–13 season, and was named in the twelve for the Australian leg of the 2012 Quad Series, but a stress fracture left her unable to take part.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10839247|title=Netball: Francois in for injured Rasmussen|
work=The New Zealand Herald|date=9 October 2012|access-date=22 January 2019}}</ref>

In 2017 she joined [[Northern Stars]] where she almost immediately became the captain of the [[ANZ Premiership]] team.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/sport/352576/kara-more-driven-as-stars-captain|title=Kara more driven as Stars captain|date=15 March 2018|publisher=[[Radio New Zealand]]|access-date=22 January 2019}}</ref> In 2018 she announced that she is pregnant.<ref name="stars081018">{{cite web|url=https://www.starsnetball.co.nz/stars/news/northern-stars-captain-grace-kara-announces-pregnancy.html|title=Northern Stars Captain Grace Kara Announces Pregnancy|publisher=www.starsnetball.co.nz|date=8 October 2018|access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref><ref name="anzp081018">{{cite web|url=http://anzpremiership.co.nz/news/article/stars-captain-grace-kara-announces-pregnancy|title=Stars captain Grace Kara announces pregnancy|publisher=anzpremiership.co.nz|date=8 October 2018|access-date=19 October 2022}}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.silverferns.co.nz/silver-ferns/team/squad/grace-rasmussen.html Silver Ferns profile]
*[https://anzpremiership.co.nz/teams/team/player/grace-rasmussen ANZ Championship profile]

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