Gretel Bueta


Gretel Bueta is an Australian netball player and former basketball player.

Basketball

Bueta played for the Australian Institute of Sport in the Women's National Basketball League during the 2010/2011 season.She played half the season with the Logan Thunder in the 2011/2012 season and was named Rookie of the Year for WNBL in 2011 before pulling out due to glandular fever. She also played in 3 junior World Championships - 2009 U/19 World Championships in Thailand where Australia placed 5th. 2010 u/17 World Championships in France where Australia placed 7th and 2011 u/19 World Championships in Chile where Australia placed 4th. In a 24 November 2010 game for the team against the Canberra Capitals, she scored thirteen points and had ten rebounds.

Netball

In March 2012, Bueta made the switch from Basketball to Netball, registering as a goal attack, goal shooter and wing attack.
In 2013, she was used as a replacement player for the Queensland Firebirds for the injured Chelsea Pitman. Later that year, she was selected for the Australian under 21 netball team for the 2013 World Youth Netball Championship in Glasgow, Scotland, where Australia finished second, and announced that she was joining the NSW Swifts.
Bueta made her ANZ Championship debut in Round 5 of the 2014 ANZ Championship after signing with the NSW Swifts for the 2014 and 2015 seasons.
At the end of the 2014 season, she was released from her contract with the NSW Swifts a year early to return home to be closer to family, signing with the Queensland Firebirds for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. She was selected in the Australian Diamonds squad for the 2018/19 international season.
Gretel has twice been named in the Super Netball Team of the Year, in 2018 and 2019. In the latter year she was also awarded the Liz Ellis Diamond, the most prestigious annual award in Australian netball, given to the player judged the best in both domestic and international netball throughout the calendar year. She sat out of the entire 2020 season as a result of becoming pregnant.

National netball representation

Bueta is the sister of former AFL footballers Kurt and Joel.
She married her long term boyfriend, Niko Bueta, on 7 March 2020.