Sovereigns announced Kydd as skipper, with experienced state league campaigner Lauren Atkinson as her deputy, at training on Wednesday night.

The unveiling comes ahead of the club's Victorian Netball League back-to-back season opening matches in Melbourne this weekend.

Kydd a self-proclaimed "oldie" of the team, aged 33, said it was an exciting honour to be part of a new chapter in Ballarat netball.

This season will be Kydd's first foray into the VNL since 2010, when she was a championship division premiership player with Hume City Falcons.

"It's not nerves - more enthusiasm and massive excitement I'm feeling to play at that level again," Kydd said.

"It's a real step up from footy netty again."

The Springbank playing-coach and Central Highlands league A-grade best and fairest knows what it takes to play netball at the highest levels.

She is a 2003 world championship player, a former Melbourne Kestrels captain and Melbourne Phoenix goaler, who won the 2004 Australian top domestic competition’s Most Valuable Player award.

Kydd retired from professional netball to England before moving to the Ballarat region.