The Netball Super League star with her sights on having a positive impact on the next generation

Art and netball are the ways Indya Masser is able to feel her most confident and comfortable. 

As well as starring on the Netball Super League court, NIC Leeds Rhinos’ new signing Indya Masser has her sights set on making an impact off the court.  

Working as a netball coach at Rugby School, the midcourter also has dreams of becoming an art teacher, a passion formed from how the subject supported her dyslexia growing up. 

She explained: “My brain shuts off a lot with art. With my dyslexia I struggle, not socially, but with the reading and writing aspects of things and I get really insecure about it.  

“I am not the most academic, I am quite dyslexic, so I am a visual learner. That is what brought me into art and as a student I found I would sit there really quietly and get on with my art.   

“When I got to A Level, I realised it was something I am good at. I never wanted to take the route of sport as I do it every day of my life, I wanted something different and that was something else I was good at.   

“It took me onto university to do art there, but I lost my way a little bit with it. I know how inspirational my art teacher was to me, so I want to have that same impact on my students.  

“In sport, it has been about visually learning. If it is information overload, I really struggle when someone is just speaking to me, it struggles to go in.   

“Whereas with a lot of my coaches, they realise now that a diagram is the best way forward, or colourful pens to draw something out for me, just so I can see it.   

“That visual learning aspect that I feel like me and my coaches are all on the same wavelength and it is something I like to tell them as soon as possible.”  

A drawing by Indya Masser

On the court, Masser has joined NIC Leeds Rhinos for NSL 2026 after spending the 2025 season with Manchester Thunder, helping her side reach the Preliminary Final.  

She said: “It’s really exciting. To be part of a franchise like Leeds, is something that I've always wanted. So, it’s a dream come true to be a part of Leeds Rhinos. 

“Everything that Lauren (Palmer)'s creating is amazing. The team is great, the long-term plan that Lauren's got is something that I really want to be a part of. I'm really looking forward to exploring more in that wing attack role and really solidifying myself. 

“To feed someone like Joyce (Mvula) is going to be absolutely amazing, having a target shooter in there is every wing attack’s dream.” 

 You’ll be able to see Masser in action for her new side at the Netball Super Cup on Saturday 21 February at Sheffield Arena. Tickets go on general sale at 10am Thursday 9 October.  

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