Postecoglou said: "With Bertie's passing a family and a club has lost a true legend and a great man. All our heartfelt thoughts and prayers go sincerely to Bertie's family for their tremendous loss of someone so dear to them. "We took him down to Bath to see how he'd get on with the four-man, and within one session he was blasting it off and jumping on the side and I thought 'wow, I've never seen anything like it'." The defender is the final player to be announced by Lightning ahead of next season and she completes an incredibly strong line-up. Rutherford, the London 2012 long-jump champion, joined up with Deen's four-man squad this year at the suggestion of the duo's mutual friend, American two-time Olympic women's bobsleigh champion Kaillie Humphries.