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The Adelaide Thunderbirds is an Australian netball team based in Adelaide who compete in the Suncorp Super Netball league. The Thunderbirds were formed as one of the foundation teams of the Commonwealth Bank Trophy (CBT), previously the premier netball league in Australia, which was contested from 1997–2007. After the retirement of the CBT, the Thunderbirds were one of five Australian franchises included in the ANZ Championship. After the disbanding of the trans-tasman league, Adelaide joined the new look Suncorp Super Netball. To date, the Thunderbirds have won two CBT titles and two ANZ Championship titles ; in addition, they have finished in the top three placings throughout their competitive history.
Netball SA Stadium is a sporting venue located in Adelaide, South Australia, opposite SA Athletics Stadium, Adelaide's premier athletics stadium. It is a specialist netball facility, hosting matches in the Suncorp Super Netball league, the Australian Netball League and other netball events and competitions. It is also the venue for the Australian Metropolitan Netball League (AMND) Competition, as well as several other indoor sports, including judo and gymnastics.
The Adelaide Entertainment Centre (AEC) is an indoor arena located in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. It is used for sporting and entertainment events. It is the principal venue for concerts, events and attractions for audiences between 1,000 and 11,300.
Adelaide Arena is a multipurpose indoor sports stadium located in Findon, an inner western suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.
Natalie Bode is a former Australian netball player, and captain from 2010 to 2013. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. Bode was a member of the Australian national netball team, and the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the ANZ Championship. Bode was a centre court player, playing predominantly as Centre.
Kristen Hughes is an Australian netball player, who played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the ANZ Championship in 2008.
Solonaima Maria Folau is a retired New Zealand netball player. She played regularly for the New Zealand national netball team, the Silver Ferns.
Leana de Bruin is a South African and New Zealand international netball player. De Bruin played 34 tests for South Africa before moving to New Zealand in 2000. She made her on-court debut for the Silver Ferns in 2003, and has gone on to represent New Zealand at the Commonwealth Games and Netball World Championships, playing in the goal defence and goal keeper positions. In 2009, she pulled out of the team due to pregnancy, before returning the following year.
Erin Bell is a former Australian netball player.
Sharni Layton is a former Australian netball player, who last played Super Netball for the Collingwood Magpies in 2018. She is a decorated former player in the Australia national netball team, having won two Gold medals at the Netball World Cup and one gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.
Emily Beaton was an Australian netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing for the Adelaide Thunderbirds. She was also starting WA for the Australian Diamonds squad that played in the 2011 World Netball Series tournament in Liverpool. She was part of both Adelaide Thunderbirds premiership teams, both in 2010 and 2013. She retired at the end of the 2016 ANZ Championship season as the only player remaining from the Thunderbirds original ANZ Championship team in 2008. This made her the only Thunderbirds player to play for the Adelaide Thunderbirds throughout the entire ANZ Championship period, having played 100 games. She now runs her typography business, Cleverhand.
Kate Beveridge is an Australian netball player who played in the ANZ Championship for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in 2008–2010, Melbourne Vixens in 2011–2012 and West Coast Fever in 2013-2017.
Alex Clarke is an Australian retired netball player. Clarke was a member of the Australian national team that won gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, England. Domestically, she played 113 matches over 11 years in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, playing for the Adelaide Thunderbirds, Queensland Firebirds and Sydney Sandpipers. Clarke also played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the ANZ Championship. After the 2008 season, Clarke announced her retirement from netball.
Kirby Mutton is an Australian netball player. She played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy and ANZ Championship from 2005 to 2008. In 2009, Mutton was dropped from the twelve-player Thunderbirds team, but was named in their extended training squad.
Melissa Rowland is an Australian netball player. Rowland played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds in the 2008 ANZ Championship season. She was listed in the Thunderbirds' extended training squad for the 2009 season, although she did receive a call-up to play in the pre-season SOPA cup, replacing an injured Mo'onia Gerrard.
Cathrine Tuivaiti is a New Zealand netball player.
The 2011 Adelaide Thunderbirds season is the fourth season that the Adelaide Thunderbirds contested the ANZ Championship, and the fifteenth year of their total competitive history. In 2011, the Thunderbirds were coached by Jane Woodlands-Thompson, with veteran international midcourter Natalie von Bertouch returning to captain the Adelaide side. The Thunderbirds also debuted their new team colours in 2011, after announcing a team rebranding in 2010. Despite winning the title in 2010, the Thunderbirds missed out on a finals place in 2011, finishing in sixth place.
Chelsea Pitman is an Australian-born netball player representing the England National Netball Team internationally. She is currently contracted with the Adelaide Thunderbirds playing in the Suncorp Super Netball competition in Australia. She is predominately a wing attack, but can also play goal attack.
Kate Shimmin is an Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league, playing for the Adelaide Thunderbirds. In August 2019, Jess Thirlby the new England Roses Coach announced Shimmin would join the full time England Roses programme.
References
- 2008 Adelaide Thunderbirds profile. Retrieved on 2008-07-15.
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