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Giants Netball (stylised as GIANTS Netball) is an Australian netball team in Sydney which competes in the premier Australian league, Suncorp Super Netball.^[1] The team represents the Greater Western Sydney region of New South Wales, as well as Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory. The team was formed in 2016, during the disbanding of the ANZ Championship. Giants Netball is owned by Netball NSW and is allied with the elite Australian Football League club, the Greater Western Sydney Giants. Home games are played at the State Sports Centre, Qudos Bank Arena and the AIS Arena in Canberra.

History

Following the dissolving of the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship competition in 2016, Netball Australia announced the creation of a new national Netball league, which would feature the five original Australian teams and three additional teams. In May 2016, Netball Australia confirmed that Netball NSW (in a strategic alliance with the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL club) was one of three preferred license holders for the new teams.^[2]^[3]

Giants Netball made their first stride as a professional sporting club when they announced former assistant coach of the Australia national team Julie Fitzgerald as the inaugural head coach of the team.^[4] The club then began assembling a strong squad over the coming months, a process which culminated in the appointment of Kimberlee Green as captain, a player with 72 national team caps.^[5]

2017-20: Successive finals

The 2017 Suncorp Super Netball season saw the debut of Giants Netball. The club was struck with a season-ending injury to captain Kimberlee Green in the early part of the season. Green was later replaced by Sarah Wall.^[6] Despite this setback, the Giants would finish third (out of eight teams) at the end of the regular season, winning ten of their fourteen games and defeating each of the other seven teams in the competition.^[7] They then defeated Collingwood and Melbourne Vixens in successive finals before falling well short in the Grand Final to Sunshine Coast Lightning.^[8]^[9] The following season the Giants finished first on the regular season ladder and won the minor premiership, though they crashed out the finals series in straight sets. Serena Guthrie, Rebecca Bulley and Susan Pettitt (three starting players) all departed the club at the end of the season, with Bulley and Pettitt retiring from the game and Guthrie returning to play in England.^[10]

Players

Competitive record

Canberra Giants

The team owns a reserves team, known as the Canberra Giants, based in both the cities of Canberra and in Sydney, which play in the second-tier Australian Netball League, partially acting as a development squad beneath the senior team.^[11] The team was established in 2017 and replaced the Canberra Darters which were the region's former ANL team.^[12] The squad comprises a mixture of Giants Netball training partners and elite netball talent based in the Australian Capital Territory.^[13]

See also

References

1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.giantsnetball.com.au/giants-netball-to-open-season-at-home/|title=Netball team GIANTS to open season at home|work=Giants Netball|date=26 October 2016}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/netball-australia-confirms-new-eight-team-division-tv-deal/7427934?pfmredir=sm|title=Netball Australia confirms new eight-team division and bumper broadcasting deal|date=19 May 2016|publisher=ABC News}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.giantsnetball.com.au/about-giants-netball/|title=The Story of GIANTS Netball|work=Giants Netball|accessdate=6 February 2018}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.giantsnetball.com.au/fitzgerald-excited-by-new-team-venture/|title=Fitzgerald excited by new team venture|date=25 October 2016|work=Giants Netball}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.giantsnetball.com.au/green-appointed-inaugural-captain/|title=Green appointed inaugural captain|work=Giants Netball|date=17 December 2016}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Wall named as permanent replacement|url=http://www.giantsnetball.com.au/wall-named-permanent-replacement/|work=Giants Netball|date=20 April 2017}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/swoop/giants-beat-competition-heavyweights-melbourne-vixens-to-go-top-of-super-netball/news-story/14f8309ae89d15220bfd4b33a82c844d|title=Giants beat competition heavyweights Melbourne Vixens to go top of Super Netball|agency=Australian Associated Press|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=14 May 2017|accessdate=15 May 2017}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.giantsnetball.com.au/giants-pip-pies-preliminary-finals-spot/|title=GIANTS pip Pies to Preliminary Finals spot|publisher=GIANTS Netball|date=3 June 2017|accessdate=4 June 2017}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com.au/netball/story/_/id/19660190/sunshine-coast-lightning-put-masterclass-giants-claim-super-netball-title|title=Sunshine Coast Lightning put on masterclass over Giants to claim title|publisher=ESPN|date=17 June 2017|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617133509/http://www.espn.com.au/netball/story/_/id/19660190/sunshine-coast-lightning-put-masterclass-giants-claim-super-netball-title|archivedate=17 June 2017}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.espn.com.au/netball/story/_/id/24413690/bulley-joins-giants-netball-departures|title=Bulley joins Giants netball departures|work=ESPN|date=19 August 2018}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.giantsnetball.com.au/canberra-giants/|work=Giants Netball|title=Canberra GIANTS}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=https://nsw.netball.com.au/canberra-giants/|title=Canberra Giants homepage|work=Netball New South Wales}}
13. ^{{cite web|url=https://netball.com.au/canberra-giants-to-walk-tall-in-2018-anl-season/|work=Netball Australia|date=27 April 2018|title=Caberra GIANTS ready to walk tall in 2018}}