Amy Satterthwaite Named Canterbury Women Coach for 2026–27 Season

Former White Ferns legend and former captain Amy Satterthwaite has been named head coach of the Canterbury Magicians (Canterbury Women) for the 2026–27 domestic season.
She replaces long-serving coach Rhys Morgan, taking over the team she last played for in 2023. The appointment makes her the only woman to hold a domestic head coaching role in New Zealand ahead of the upcoming summer.

Satterthwaite Returns to Canterbury

Satterthwaite returns to the team she last represented in the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield in 2023, taking over from Rhys Morgan, who spent 6 years in the role. During Morgan’s time in charge, Canterbury won 2 Super Smash titles, in 2020-21 and 2022-23, as well as the Hallyburton Johnstone Shield in 2020-21.
Satterthwaite ended her international career in 2022 before joining Adelaide Strikers as an assistant coach in the WBBL, which became her first major coaching role. She
later finished her New Zealand domestic playing career after the 2022-23 season. In December last year, she became Canterbury’s female pathway lead.

Satterthwaite’s Canterbury Legacy

Satterthwaite retired as a player after the 2022-23 domestic one-day final and ended her Canterbury career as the team’s leading run-scorer in domestic one-day cricket, with 5,147 runs scored across 20 years. She has since been overtaken by her longtime teammate Frankie Mackay, who now leads the Canterbury Magicians’ all-time run-scoring list with 5,188 runs.

Mackay may have moved ahead of her, but Satterthwaite remains Canterbury’s second-highest run-scorer, with more than 2,000 runs separating her from the third-highest run-scorer, Debbie Hockley. However, Satterthwaite remains Canterbury’s leading T20 run-scorer with 2,925 runs, ahead of Mackay’s 2,821.
She was a key member of the New Zealand women’s team for 15 years, finishing her international career with 145 ODIs and 111 T20Is. She is still the only woman, and one of just 2 players alongside Kumar Sangakkara, to score 4 consecutive ODI centuries.
In Canterbury’s men’s team, Brendon Donkers has been named head coach of the defending Plunket Shield champions. He previously worked as an assistant coach under Peter Fulton before Fulton left midway through last season after being appointed head coach of Middlesex. Donkers then stepped in as Canterbury’s interim head coach and has now been given the position on a full-time basis.
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