Liz Ellis, Netball Player., - Biography
Australian Netball International
Height: Height: 183cm 6 feet
born 17
January 1973, Australia
Liz Ellis is an Australian netball
player. She is the captain and the best-known player on the current Australian
team, not only for her long representative career but also for her off-court media
work. Ellis plays goalkeeper for both the Australian team and her club team, the
Sydney Swifts, thus usually matching up against the opposing team's best shooter.
Ellis is widely acknowledged as one of the greats of her sport. She is considered
by many netball fans to be the world's best defender. Over recent years, her confrontations
with the New Zealand shooting sensation Irene
Van Dyk have been regular highlights of international netball.
Ellis became
the captain of the Sydney Swifts in 2000. She was the captain for their 2001,
2004 and 2006 Commonwealth Bank Trophy premierships.
In 2006, she displayed
champion qualities by rebounding from a career-threatening knee reconstruction
(see below) to play one of her best ever netball seasons, leading the Sydney Swifts
through an undefeated season, and culminating with her being named best-on-court
in the 2006 Commonwealth Bank Trophy Grand Final against the Adelaide Thunderbirds.
She
has won Australian netball's Most Valued Player Award, the most prized individual
award in Australian netball, four times, in 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2006.
Joining
the senior Australian squad in 1992, she has been a fixture since, as part of
the world championship winning sides in 1995 and 1999, as well as the Commonwealth
Games gold medal team (a competition as strong as the World Championship, as all
the strongest netball teams are part of the Commonwealth) in Kualar Lumpur in
1998 and in Manchester in 2002.
She became captain of the national team in
February 2004.
In the Test against the Silver Ferns played in Auckland on October
29, 2005, Ellis suffered a serious knee injury, which required surgery and rehabilitation
lasting several months. As a result she missed netball's next major international
series, the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne. Since her return to the side,
the Australian team has been more successful against their main rivals for international
dominance, the Silver Ferns.
Ellis is a fully-qualified solicitor, but has
given legal work up to concentrate on business and media work. She has been a
regular panellist on a number of sports panel shows, where her gently self-deprecating
humor has been popular. For 5 years she presented a weekly sports segment on the
ABC's national youth radio network, Triple J. She has also appeared several times
on The Glass House. Her business activities include running junior coaching clinics
amongst a number of other activities and endorsements.
Ellis lives in Sydney
with her husband Matthew Stocks.
She is a member of the movements for a Australian republic.
She regularaly appears on TV, and hyas asthma.
She likes outing out and wine.
From
age 8 she was the tallest in her Green Hills Netball Club. Switched to Goal Attack
when 9 years old and defender at the age of 14 years.
In Hawkesbury teams
11 - 15 years.
At AIS in 1991.
Joined Ku-ring-gai Netball Club 1993.
Capped
105 Times
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