'I feel happy and content' - Mentor on retirement

England netball fable Geva Mentor has said that she is "happy and content" having announced her status from nan game.

With 2 matches remaining successful nan existent Super League season, nan 40-year-old Leeds Rhinos defender will play successful nan last games of nan run earlier ending her playing career.

"I'm very happy and contented pinch my decision, nan clip is very correct to retire," Mentor told BBC South Today.

"Last twelvemonth I wasn't judge if I was fresh but aft a mates of games this play I knew it was right.

"I've been capable to play nan play and beryllium competitory but I'm fresh for nan adjacent section truthful I tin enactment astatine location a batch much and person little travelling.

"I'm fresh for nan adjacent realm and to alteration my goals and perspectives connected things. It won't beryllium easy and I still don't cognize what is precisely adjacent but I'm really looking guardant to it," she added.

Mentor, who is primitively from Bournemouth, is now based successful France and since moving to nan Rhinos successful 2024 has had to regularly commute betwixt her location and club.

She spent 16 seasons playing successful New Zealand and Australia and has appeared successful much than 310 games astatine nine level.

Mentor was doubly named nan World's Best Netballer during a 24-year career.

"This twelvemonth I took a measurement backmost from nan activity roles to bask my netball," she added.

"When I measurement distant from nan athletics I'll beryllium capable to opportunity yes to much things I'm passionate astir distant from nan tribunal and that is breathtaking for me.

"I'm doing a batch of activity pinch netball France and I could perchance proceed to do that arsenic good arsenic coaching. I'm a large advocator for our athletics and want to thief push it forward.

"The athletics has fixed maine truthful overmuch which I'm ace grateful for and I want others to person a akin aliases amended acquisition than I have."

In their remaining Super League matches, Leeds Rhinos will look Cardiff Dragons successful Sheffield connected Sunday earlier their last crippled of nan run against Nottingham Forest connected 15 June.

Mentor's squad person struggled this play successful nan league, winning conscionable 2 games to time off them sitting 2nd from bottommost successful nan standings.

"We person 2 much games to spell and I'm excited for them," Mentor said.

"I conscionable want to return to nan tribunal and execute and springiness my each successful those last games, I want to extremity strong.

"I'm emotion very grateful astatine nan moment, it's been crazy to deliberation wherever I've travel from and nan travel on nan way.

"I've stayed existent to my roots and remembered wherever I person travel from and that has kept maine grounded and fixed maine a consciousness of position each nan measurement through."