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Tonisha Rock-Yaw

Barbadian netball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ89187711 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tonisha Rock-Yaw (born 20 August 1993) is a Barbadian netball player who represents Barbados internationally and plays in the positions of centre and wing defense. She made her maiden World Cup appearance representing Barbados at the 2019 Netball World Cup. She also represented Barbados at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, which also marked her maiden Commonwealth Games appearance.

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The public source identifies “Tonisha Rock-Yaw” as barbadian netball player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tonisha, Rock-Yaw and Barbadian.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2019, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-08-20. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tonisha, Rock-Yaw and Barbadian providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q89187711. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2019 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tonisha Rock-Yaw” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.