Former NSW Swifts Training Partner Ali Miller will lead the QBE Swifts Academy at the 2023 Australian Netball Championships in Queensland later this month.
Miller, who has been a regular in the senior training environment for a number of years, plays for the ERNA Hawks in the Netball NSW Premier League and has played for the Swifts in pre-season matches.
She will be joined in the leadership group by vice-captain and senior Swifts defender Teigan O’Shannassy who is eligible to play in this year’s ANC.
Also in the leadership team is another capped Swifts player, Lili Gorman-Brown, who like O’Shannassy played for the senior side in the 2023 Suncorp Super Netball Grand Final against the Adelaide Thunderbirds.
The open age championships will be contested from August 21-27 at Morayfield Sports and Events Centre north of Brisbane, providing an opportunity for both local and interstate fans to experience top-level netball across the week.
The ANC is contested by feeder teams of SSN clubs, and State Bodies which do not hold an SSN license. In 2021 the ANC replaced the Australian Netball League as the feeder competition to SSN.
In 2023 the Swifts will once again be represented by the QBE Swifts Academy, which replaced the Club’s previous pathway program – the Netball NSW Waratahs – at the end of 2019.
Launched with the backing of Netball NSW and the Swifts’ Principal Partner QBE Insurance, the Academy strengthens the foundations of Australian netball's most decorated elite club by providing further pathway opportunities to aspiring players from across New South Wales.
As well as the Swifts Academy, the other participating sides at the 2023 ANC include: the Adelaide Thunderbirds Futures, Firebird Futures, Capital Darters, Collingwood Magpies, Giants Netball Academy, Sunshine Coast Lightning Bolts, Tasmania Wild, Territory Storm, Victorian Fury and the West Coast Fever Reserves.
The 2023 Australian Netball Championships will be available to watch live, on-demand and free via Kayo Freebies.
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