List of Australia national netball team captains

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The following is a list Australian netball international players who have captained the national team in international tournaments such as the Commonwealth Games, the INF Netball World Cup, the World Games, the Constellation Cup, the Netball Quad Series and in other senior test matches.

Contents

List

YearsCaptainsStateSeries/Tournaments
1938Becky Douglas [1] Victoria First Test against New Zealand [2]
1948Mary White [3] [4] South Australia Away series against New Zealand [5]
1953 Myrtle Craddock [6] [7] Victoria
1956 Pat McCarthy [8] [9] Victoria 1956 tour of England, Scotland and Ceylon [10]
1956Gaynor Flanagan [11] South Australia
1960Gloria Haycroft [12] Victoria Home series against New Zealand [13]
1963 Joyce Brown [9] [14] [15] Victoria 1963 World Netball Championships
1967Lynette Moroney Davey [4] [16] [17] South Australia 1967 World Netball Championships
1969Elsma Harris Merillo [18] Western Australia
1971 Gaye Walsh [19] [20] Western Australia 1971 World Netball Championships
1975–1979 Margaret Caldow [9] [21] [22] [23] Victoria 1975 World Netball Championships
1979 World Netball Championships
1978 Norma Plummer [24] Victoria
1981Pam Redmond [25] Victoria
1982 Jill McIntosh [26] Western Australia
1983Julie Francou [4] [27] [28] South Australia 1983 World Netball Championships
1984–1988 Anne Sargeant [29] New South Wales 1985 World Games [30]
1987 World Netball Championships [31]
1989–1995 Michelle Fielke [32] South Australia 1989 World Games [33]
1990 Commonwealth Games [34]
1991 World Netball Championships [35]
1993 World Games [36]
1995 World Netball Championships [37]
1996–1999 Vicki Wilson [38] Queensland 1998 Commonwealth Games
1999 World Netball Championships [39]
2000–2003 Kathryn Harby-Williams [40] South Australia 2002 Commonwealth Games [41]
2003 World Netball Championships [42]
2003–2007 Liz Ellis [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] New South Wales 2007 World Netball Championships [48]
2004, 2011 Catherine Cox [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] New South Wales 2011 Constellation Cup
2005–2011 Sharelle McMahon [52] [55] [45] [46] [56] [57] [58] Victoria 2006 Commonwealth Games
2010 Commonwealth Games
2010 Constellation Cup
2008,
2011–2012		 Natalie von Bertouch [7] [59] South Australia 2011 Constellation Cup
2011 World Netball Championships [60]
2012 Constellation Cup
2012 Netball Quad Series
2008 Mo'onia Gerrard [56] New South Wales
2013–2015 Laura Geitz [61] [62] [63] Queensland 2013 Constellation Cup
2014 Commonwealth Games
2014 Constellation Cup
2015 Netball World Cup
2015 Constellation Cup
2014 Kimberlee Green [64] New South Wales
2015 Natalie Medhurst [65] South Australia
2016 Clare McMeniman [66] [67] [68] [69] [70] Queensland 2016 Netball Quad Series
2016 Constellation Cup
2016–2017 Sharni Layton [71] [72] Victoria 2017 Netball Quad Series (January/February)
2017–2021 Caitlin Bassett [73] [74] Western Australia 2017 Netball Quad Series (August/September)
2017 Constellation Cup
2018 Netball Quad Series (January)
2018 Commonwealth Games [75]
2018 Netball Quad Series (September)
2018 Constellation Cup
2019 Netball Quad Series (Note 1)
2019 Netball World Cup [76]
2019 Constellation Cup
2021 Constellation Cup [77] [78] [79] (Note 2)
2019 Gabi Simpson [80] New South Wales 2019 Netball Quad Series (Note 1)
2019 Caitlin Thwaites [80] Victoria 2019 Netball Quad Series (Note 1)
2021– Liz Watson [78] [79] [81] [82] [83] Victoria 2021 Constellation Cup (Note 2)
2022 Commonwealth Games
2022 Constellation Cup
2023 Netball Quad Series
2022 Stephanie Wood Queensland 2022 Netball Quad Series (Note 4)
2022– Paige Hadley New South Wales 2022 Australia England netball series [84] (Note 3)
2023 Netball Quad Series (Note 5)

Notes

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