Former Swifts captain and nine-time Club MVP Liz Ellis AO is to be elevated to Legend status in the Netball NSW Hall of Fame next month.
A multiple World Cup and Commonwealth Games Gold Medal winner with the Australian Diamonds, and regarded by many as the greatest-ever netballer the nation has produced, Ellis will be just the sixth person granted Legend status in the near 100-year history of the organisation.
A Hawkesbury junior who represented NSW at 17U, 19U, 21U and Opens levels before the start of the first National Netball League (Commonwealth Bank Trophy) in 1997, she was a Swifts Foundation player and went on to captain the side from 2000 to 2007.
Ellis retired from elite Club netball in 2007, just before the Sydney Swifts rebranded as the NSW Swifts when the Commonwealth Bank Trophy was replaced by the ANZ Championship.
In her time at the Swifts, she led them to four Premierships (2001, 2004, 2006, 2007) and was one of the Club’s inaugural Centurions.
At international level Ellis was regarded as the finest goal keeper of her generation. She won 122 caps for Australia and three World Cup titles (1995, 1999 & 2007) as well as Commonwealth Gold Medals in Kuala Lumpur (1998) and Manchester (2002).
Since retiring from playing Ellis has continued to be involved in netball as a broadcaster (Fox Sports, Channel 10, Channel 9), coach and administrator, chairing the 2020 State Of The Game Review.
Outside of the game, Ellis gained further national recognition by winning I’m A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here this year, using the platform to break the stigma around everyday issues faced by women such as fertility, miscarriage and period poverty.
She will be elevated to Legend status at the Netball NSW State Dinner which takes place on Saturday 4 November at the Waterview in Sydney Olympic Park.
Tickets for the event can be purchased HERE.
