Liz Ellis

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Liz Ellis
AO
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Liz Ellis, Celebrity Grand Prix Day, 11 March 2008
Personal information
Full nameElizabeth Margaret Ellis
Born (1973-01-17) 17 January 1973 (age 51)
Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
School St Andrews College, Marayong
University Macquarie University
Occupation
  • Netball player
  • television presenter
Spouse Matthew Stocks
Children 2
Netball career
Playing position(s): GK
YearsClub team(s)Apps
1997–07 Sydney Swifts 173
YearsNational team(s)Caps
1992 Australia U21
1993–07 Australia 122
Medal record
Representing Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia
Netball World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2007 Auckland Netball
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2003 Kingston Netball
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1999 Christchurch Netball
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1995 Birmingham Netball
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2006 Melbourne Netball
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2002 Manchester Netball
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 1998 Kuala Lumpur Netball
Last updated: 2015-06-24

Elizabeth Margaret Ellis, AO (born 17 January 1973) is a retired Australian netball player and television presenter who was a member of the national netball team from 1992 until 2007 and captain for the last four of those years. She is the most capped international player for Australian netball. [1] Liz Ellis was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2006.

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Early life and education

Ellis was born in Windsor, New South Wales, on 17 January 1973. [2] After attending Holy Family High School and finishing the last two years of secondary education at John Paul II Senior High School (now known as St Andrew's College), Ellis attended the Australian Institute of Sport on a netball scholarship. She also completed a law degree at Macquarie University while she worked her way up the ranks of Australian netball. [3]

Netball career

After attending the AIS in 1991–1992, Ellis made her debut for the Australian Netball Team in July 1993 against Wales. It was the 1995 World Championships in Birmingham where she stamped her mark on the international netball scene with a sterling performance in the grand final against South Africa. She went on to be a mainstay of the Australian Netball Team, participating in the 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2007 World Championships and the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games. She was named Vice-Captain of the team in 2000 and Captain in 2004 and broke the record for the highest number of tests played for Australia in 2005. She was named Australian Netball's Most Valued Player on four occasions – 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2006. [4] [5]

Ellis became the captain of the Sydney Swifts in 2000. She was the captain for their team in 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2007 Commonwealth Bank Trophy premierships. She played her entire domestic career for the Swifts and holds the record for the most games played in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy (173). In October 2005, Ellis suffered a career-threatening knee injury in a match against New Zealand in Auckland. She defied the critics by making a full recovery from a full knee reconstruction and producing some of the best netball of her career in the two years that followed. Ellis announced her retirement from netball on 19 November 2007, two days after leading Australia to a World Championship victory over New Zealand. [6] [7] [5]

Television career

Since her retirement, Ellis has been a netball commentator, working initially for Fox Sports and Network Ten during their coverage of the ANZ Championship and Australian Diamonds test matches. She moved to the Nine Network when it picked up the rights to the Suncorp Super Netball league, and became a regular panellist on the network's weekly Sports Sunday program. [8]

In 2023, Ellis appeared as a contestant in the ninth season of the Australian edition of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! , which she won. [9] She also began appearing regularly on Network 10's The Project as a panelist in 2023. [10] [11]

In October 2023, Network 10 announced at their 2024 upfronts that Ellis was set to host a revival of the sports entertainment competition show Gladiators Australia in 2024, alongside Beau Ryan. [12] [13] The show officially premiered on 15 January 2024. [14]

Personal life

Ellis met former businessman Matthew Stocks in 1992. They became engaged in 2000 and married in 2006. [15]

On 31 March 2011, Ellis announced that she was pregnant. [16] On 28 September 2011, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter, at Sydney's Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

On 21 October 2015, Ellis announced on "The Project" that after several rounds of IVF and three miscarriages, she was pregnant with her second child. A son was born 4 April 2016. [17]

Ellis wrote a book in 2018 titled "If at First You Don't Conceive", detailing her experiences with her troubles having children.[ citation needed ]

In May 2024, Ellis was appointed Chair of the Netball Australia Board. [18]

Recognition

In the 2018 Australia Day Honours, Ellis became an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for "distinguished service to netball as an elite player and coach, through support and advocacy for young women, as a contributor to the broadcast and print media industries, and to the community". [19] In recognition of her outstanding career, since 2008 the highest individual accolade awarded to an Australian netball athlete has been the annual Liz Ellis Diamond.

In 2019, she was inducted into Hall of Fame at Australian Women's Health Sport Awards. [20]

In 2020, a river-class ferry on the Sydney Ferries network was named in her honour. [21]

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References

  1. ↑ "Liz Ellis". The Australian . 15 December 2007. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Reach Out! – Liz Ellis Archived 7 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ↑ Safe, Mike (20 October 2007). "Places in the heart". The Australian. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Jameson, Julietta (26 April 2018). "The places that changed my life: Liz Ellis". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  5. 1 2 "Liz Ellis | Sport Australia Hall of Fame" . Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  6. ↑ "Liz Ellis". www.abc.net.au. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 19 November 2010. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  7. ↑ "Netball NSW Hall of Fame Inductee: Liz Ellis AO". Netball NSW. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  8. ↑ "Liz Ellis AO". Celebrity Speakers. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  9. ↑ Bond, Nick (2 April 2023). "I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here: Full cast revealed". News.com.au . Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  10. ↑ "The Project - 20 Jul 2023". 10 play. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  11. ↑ "The Project - 27 Jul 2023". 10 play. Retrieved 1 August 2023.
  12. ↑ Thomas, Tia (11 December 2023). "Gladiators Australia 2024 hosted by Beau Ryan and Liz Ellis". Now To Love. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  13. ↑ McManus, Bridget (5 January 2024). "How Liz Ellis emerged from the celebrity jungle to host Gladiators". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  14. ↑ "Meet the Australian Gladiators 2024 Cast". Who. 10 January 2024. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  15. ↑ Findlay, Shannen (15 April 2023). "From netball captain to I'm A Celeb's queen of the jungle: Liz Ellis crowned winner in emotional finale". Mamamia . Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  16. ↑ "Liz Ellis going full circle". Herald Sun . 1 April 2011. Retrieved 16 January 2016.
  17. ↑ "Exclusive: Liz Ellis welcomes a baby boy!". Australian Women's Weekly . 5 April 2016.
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  19. ↑ "Australia Day Honours 2018: The full list". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 January 2018. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
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  21. ↑ "NSWIS alumni celebrated on new River Class ferries". New South Wales Institute of Sport. 6 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
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