Netball New South Wales Waratahs

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Netball New South Wales Waratahs
Founded 2008
Based in Sydney
Regions New South Wales
Home venue Netball Central
Quaycentre
Premierships1 (2011)
League Australian Netball League
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Netball New South Wales Waratahs is an Australian netball team that represents Netball New South Wales in the Australian Netball League. In 2008 they were founder members of the ANL. They were ANL champions in 2011 and have been grand finalists on a further five occasions, making them the second most successful team in the ANL after Victorian Fury. Waratahs are effectively the reserve team of New South Wales Swifts.

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History

Netball New South Wales

Waratahs are one of two teams that represent Netball New South Wales in senior or national leagues. Their senior team, New South Wales Swifts, have represented Netball New South Wales in both the ANZ Championship and Suncorp Super Netball. Netball New South Wales have also entered a second team, NNSW Blues in the Australian Netball League. [1] [2] [3] [4]

ANL champions

In 2011 Waratahs became the first team other than Victorian Fury to win the Australian Netball League title. In the grand final they defeated Fury 55–46. The winning Waratahs team was coached by Robert Wright and captained by Carla Dziwoki. Other members of the successful squad included Samantha May, Jessica Mansell, April Letton, Ashleigh Brazill, Paige Hadley, Verity Simmons, Amorette Wild and Tiffany Lincoln. [1]

ANL Grand finals

SeasonWinnersScoreRunners UpVenue
2010 [5] [6] [7] Victorian Fury 54–47NNSW WaratahsWaverley Netball Centre
2011 [1] [8] NNSW Waratahs55–46 Victorian Fury Waverley Netball Centre
2012 [9] [2] Southern Force 50–36NNSW WaratahsWaverley Netball Centre
2013 [10] [11] Victorian Fury 56–51NNSW Waratahs Netball SA Stadium
2016 [12] Victorian Fury 53–46NNSW Waratahs Netball Central
2019 [13] [14] [15] Victorian Fury 54–53NNSW Waratahs SNHC

Source: [16]

Home venue

Waratahs play their home games at Netball Central, also known as the Genea Netball Centre, and Quaycentre. [17]

Notable players

Internationals

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New South Wales Swifts

Source: [1] [2] [18] [19]

Giants Netball

Source: [20]

ANL MVP

The following Waratahs players were named MVP in the Australian Netball League.

SeasonPlayer
2010 Amorette Wild
2012Kristy Guthrie
2014 Kristina Brice
2016Vanessa Mullampy

Source: [16]

Head coaches

CoachYears
Robert Wright [1] [21] c. 2011
Sue Hawkins [2] 2012
Briony Akle [18] [22] [23] [24] 2016–2017
Colleen Mitchell [19] 2018
Lenore Blades [25] 2018–201x

Premierships

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