Giants Netball

Giants Netball
Founded 2016
Based in Sydney
Regions Greater Western Sydney & Canberra
Home venue Qudos Bank Arena (18,200)
State Sports Centre (5,006)
AIS Arena (5,000)
Head coach Julie Fitzgerald
Captain Kimberlee Green
League Suncorp Super Netball
2018 placing 3rd
Website www.giantsnetball.com.au

Giants Netball (stylised as GIANTS Netball) is an Australian netball team in Sydney which competes in the premier Australian league, Suncorp Super Netball.[1] The team represents the Greater Western Sydney region of New South Wales, as well as Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. The team was formed in 2016, during the disbanding of the ANZ Championship. Giants Netball is owned by Netball NSW and is allied with the elite Australian Football League club, the Greater Western Sydney Giants. Home games are played at the State Sports Centre, Qudos Bank Arena and the AIS Arena in Canberra.

History

Following the dissolving of the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship competition in 2016, Netball Australia announced the creation of a new national Netball league, which would feature the five original Australian teams and three additional teams. In May 2016, Netball Australia confirmed that Netball NSW (in a strategic alliance with the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL club) was one of three preferred license holders for the new teams.[2][3]

Giants Netball made their first stride as a professional sporting club when they announced former assistant coach of the Australia national team Julie Fitzgerald as the inaugural head coach of the team.[4] The club then began assembling a strong squad over the coming months, a process which culminated in the appointment of Kimberlee Green as captain, a player with 72 national team caps.[5]

2017-20: Successive finals

The 2017 Suncorp Super Netball season saw the debut of Giants Netball. The club was struck with a season-ending injury to captain Kimberlee Green in the early part of the season. Green was later replaced by Sarah Wall.[6] Despite this setback, the Giants would finish third (out of eight teams) at the end of the regular season, winning ten of their fourteen games and defeating each of the other seven teams in the competition.[7] They then defeated Collingwood and Melbourne Vixens in successive finals before falling well short in the Grand Final to Sunshine Coast Lightning.[8][9] The following season the Giants finished first on the regular season ladder and won the minor premiership, though they crashed out the finals series in straight sets. Serena Guthrie, Rebecca Bulley and Susan Pettitt (three starting players) all departed the club at the end of the season, with Bulley and Pettitt retiring from the game and Guthrie returning to play in England.[10]

Players

2019 Giants Netball roster
PlayersCoaching staff
Nat. Name Position(s) DoB Height
Australia Kiera Austin GA, GS, WA 26 August 1997 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Australia Caitlin Bassett GS 23 May 1988 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Australia Amy Parmenter C, WD 1 August 1997 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Australia Kimberlee Green (c) WA, C 5 March 1986 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Australia Matilda McDonell GD, GK 22 June 2000 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
England Jo Harten GS, GA 21 March 1989 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Australia Kristiana Manu'a GK, GD, WD 3 September 1995 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Australia Teigan O'Shannassy GK, GD 14 April 1999 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Australia Sam Poolman GK, GD 4 March 1991 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Australia Jamie-Lee Price WD, C 10 January 1996 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Head coach
  • Julie Fitzgerald


Notes
  • (c) – Captain
  • (cc) – Co-captain
  • (vc) – Vice-captain
  • – Injury / maternity leave
  • (TRP) – Temporary Replacement Player
Player profiles: Team website Last updated: 23 September 2018

Competitive record

Canberra Giants

The team owns a reserves team, known as the Canberra Giants, based in both the cities of Canberra and in Sydney, which play in the second-tier Australian Netball League, partially acting as a development squad beneath the senior team.[11] The team was established in 2017 and replaced the Canberra Darters which were the region's former ANL team.[12] The squad comprises a mixture of Giants Netball training partners and elite netball talent based in the Australian Capital Territory.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Netball team GIANTS to open season at home". Giants Netball. 26 October 2016.
  2. ↑ "Netball Australia confirms new eight-team division and bumper broadcasting deal". ABC News. 19 May 2016.
  3. ↑ "The Story of GIANTS Netball". Giants Netball. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Fitzgerald excited by new team venture". Giants Netball. 25 October 2016.
  5. ↑ "Green appointed inaugural captain". Giants Netball. 17 December 2016.
  6. ↑ "Wall named as permanent replacement". Giants Netball. 20 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Giants beat competition heavyweights Melbourne Vixens to go top of Super Netball". The Daily Telegraph. Australian Associated Press. 14 May 2017. Retrieved 15 May 2017.
  8. ↑ "GIANTS pip Pies to Preliminary Finals spot". GIANTS Netball. 3 June 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2017.
  9. ↑ "Sunshine Coast Lightning put on masterclass over Giants to claim title". ESPN. 17 June 2017. Archived from the original on 17 June 2017.
  10. ↑ "Bulley joins Giants netball departures". ESPN. 19 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Canberra GIANTS". Giants Netball.
  12. ↑ "Canberra Giants homepage". Netball New South Wales.
  13. ↑ "Caberra GIANTS ready to walk tall in 2018". Netball Australia. 27 April 2018.
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