Netball Australian Capital Territory

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Netball Australian Capital Territory
JurisdictionFlag of the Australian Capital Territory.svg  Australian Capital Territory
AbbreviationNetball ACT
NACT
Founded1940s
Affiliation Netball Australia
HeadquartersSolarHub ACT Netball Centre
Location 435 Northbourne Avenue
Lyneham, ACT
PresidentSue Scanlan
CEO Matthew Battams
Official website
act.netball.com.au

Netball Australian Capital Territory is the governing body for netball in the Australian Capital Territory. It is affiliated to Netball Australia. It is responsible for organizing and managing the association's representative teams including Capital Darters, who compete in the Australian Netball Championships and The Capital Spirit, who compete in Netball NSW Premier League. It is also responsible for organizing and managing the HCF State League as well as other leagues and competitions for junior and youth teams. Its headquarters are based at the SolarHub ACT Netball Centre in Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory. It was originally founded in the early 1940s as the ACT Women's Basketball Association and was initially affiliated to the New South Wales Women's Basketball Association. In 1975 it became affiliated directly to the All Australia Netball Association.

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History

Netball ACT was originally founded in the early 1940s as the ACT Women's Basketball Association. While netball was played earlier than this in the Australian Capital Territory, mainly between school teams, this was the first formal association. It was initially affiliated to the New South Wales Women's Basketball Association. 1970 saw the creation of the Canberra Netball Association and the South Canberra Netball Association to accommodate increasing participation and the growing number of players. In 1975 the ACT Netball Association became affiliated directly to the All Australia Netball Association. This move was supported by Netball New South Wales and required a change to the national governing body's constitution, allowing territories to be admitted. [1] [2]

Since 1990, the headquarters of Netball ACT have been located at the Solarhub Netball Centre, in Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory. [2] [3]

Representative teams

Current

TeamLeaguesYears
Capital Darters [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] Australian Netball Championships 2021–        
The Capital Spirit [7] [8] [9] [10] Netball NSW Premier League 2020–
Under-19, Under-17 [11] Australian National Netball Championships

Former

TeamLeaguesYears
Australian Institute of Sport Australian Netball League [12] [13]
Esso/Mobil Superleague [14] [15] [16] 		2008–2012
1985–1996
Canberra Darters Australian Netball League [17] [18] [19] 2008–2016
Canberra Giants Australian Netball League [7] [19] [20] [21] 2017–2019
AIS Canberra Darters Commonwealth Bank Trophy [22] [23] [24] 2003–2007

Competitions

Member associations

AssociationRegion/city/townFounded
ACT Men's and Mixed Netball [28] [29] 2021
Arawang Netball Association Stirling 1976
Belconnen Netball Association Belconnen 1975
Canberra Netball Association [30] Canberra 1970
South Canberra Netball Association South Canberra 1970
Tuggeranong Netball Association Tuggeranong 1985

Source: [1] [2] [31]

Netball ACT board

President
MembersYears
1975–19xxMarj McMahon [1]
20xx–2014Sue Scanlan [17]
2014–2016Paul Donohue [17] [18] [19]
2016Lauren Gale [19]
2017–2020Louise Bilston [7] [8] [20] [21] [32]
2020–Sue Scanlan [8] [33]
CEO
MembersYears
2019–2020David Marjoribanks [7] [34] [35]
2020–Matthew Battams [8]

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