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Queensland Fusion
Queensland Sapphires are an Australian netball team that represents Netball Queensland in the Australian Netball Championships. Between 2008 and 2019, as Queensland Fusion, they played in the Australian Netball League. Sapphires are effectively the reserve team of Queensland Firebirds and the representative team of the HART Sapphire Series. History Queensland Fusion Between 2008 and 2019, Queensland Fusion played in the Australian Netball League. They were founder members of the ANL. Their best performance in the ANL came in 2014 when they reached the grand final but lost 51–49 to Victorian Fury. ;Regular season statistics Queensland Sapphires In 2021, Queensland Fusion were re-branded Queensland Sapphires after the HART Sapphire Series. In September 2021, they were due to represent Netball Queensland in the inaugural Australian Netball Championships tournament. However, this tournament was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sapphires subsequently played in a four t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2008 In Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2008 in Australia. Incumbents *Monarch – Elizabeth II *Governor-General – Michael Jeffery (until 5 September), then Quentin Bryce *Prime Minister – Kevin Rudd **Deputy Prime Minister – Julia Gillard **Opposition Leader – Brendan Nelson (until 16 September), then Malcolm Turnbull * Chief Justice – Murray Gleeson (until 29 August), then Robert French State and Territory Leaders *Premier of New South Wales – Morris Iemma (until 5 September), then Nathan Rees **Opposition Leader – Barry O'Farrell *Premier of Queensland – Anna Bligh **Opposition Leader – Jeff Seeney (until 29 January), then Lawrence Springborg *Premier of South Australia – Mike Rann **Opposition Leader – Martin Hamilton-Smith *Premier of Tasmania – Paul Lennon (until 26 May), then David Bartlett **Opposition Leader – Will Hodgman *Premier of Victoria – John Brumby **Opposition Leader – Ted Baillieu *Premier of Western Australia – Ala ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Islander
Pacific Islanders, Pasifika, Pasefika, or rarely Pacificers are the peoples of the list of islands in the Pacific Ocean, Pacific Islands. As an ethnic group, ethnic/race (human categorization), racial term, it is used to describe the original peoples—inhabitants and diasporas—of any of the three major subregions of Oceania (Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia). Melanesians include the Fijians (Fiji), Kanak people, Kanaks (New Caledonia), Ni-Vanuatu (Vanuatu), Papua New Guinean people, Papua New Guineans (Papua New Guinea), Solomon Islands#Ethnic groups, Solomon Islanders (Solomon Islands), and Western New Guinea#Demographics, West Papuans (Indonesia's Western New Guinea, West Papua). Micronesians include the Carolinian people, Carolinians (Northern Mariana Islands), Chamorro people, Chamorros (Guam), Chuukese people, Chuukese (Chuuk State, Chuuk), Kiribati people, I-Kiribati (Kiribati), Kosraeans (Kosrae), Marshallese people, Marshallese (Marshall Islands), Palauans (Palau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenora Misa
Lenora Misa (born 19 December 1997) is a Samoan netball player who represents Samoa internationally and plays in the positions of goal defense and goal keeper. She made her maiden World Cup appearance representing Samoa at the 2019 Netball World Cup The 2019 Netball World Cup (also known as the 2019 Vitality Netball World Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the 15th edition of the INF Netball World Cup. It was held from 12–21 July 2019 at the Liverpool Arena in Liverpool, England with match .... References {{DEFAULTSORT:Misa, Lenora 1997 births Living people Samoan netball players 2019 Netball World Cup players Queensland Fusion players Australian Netball League players Samoan expatriate sportspeople in Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maleta Roberts
Maleta Roberts (born 25 April 1985) is a Papua New Guinean international netball player. Roberts was a member of the Papua New Guinea national team that played in the 2007 Arafura Games and the 2007 Netball World Championships, and subsequently at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. In 2013 she was appointed Co-Captain of the PNG Pepes for the Pacific Series in Samoa. She also played with the Queensland Firebirds in Australia's Commonwealth Bank Trophy, and played with the Queensland Fusion Queensland Sapphires are an Australian netball team that represents Netball Queensland in the Australian Netball Championships. Between 2008 and 2019, as Queensland Fusion, they played in the Australian Netball League. Sapphires are effectiv ... in the inaugural Australian Netball League. at [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ameliaranne Wells
Ameliaranne Ekenasio (née Wells; born 11 January 1991) is an Australian-born, New Zealand netball player. She currently plays for Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic in the ANZ Premiership. Ekenasio is known for her high work rate and smooth long-range shooting. Ekenasio made her New Zealand debut in the 2014 Constellation Cup against Australia. She missed the 2017 season due to the birth of her son Ocean, but returned to take a full part in 2018. In a remarkable comeback, she was selected for the New Zealand netball team to compete at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, however the Silver Ferns team failed to medal. After finishing runner-up in 2018, Ekenasio's Central Pulse side won the 2019 ANZ Premiership defeating the Northern Stars Northern Stars are a New Zealand netball team based in South Auckland. Since 2017 they have competed in the ANZ Premiership. The team was named after the Matariki star cluster which is also featured on the team's logo. They were grand finali ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Verity Simmons
Verity Anne Simmons; born 19 May 1991 in Grafton, New South Wales) is an Australian netball player. In 2012, Charles played her first season in the ANZ Championship with West Coast Fever. In 2014, she transferred to the Queensland Firebirds, and was part of a team that made the ANZ Championship Grand Finals in 2014. And in winning the premiership in 2015. In 2016 she transferred back to West Coast Fever and was appointed vice-captain for the inaugural season of Suncorp Super Netball Suncorp Super Netball is the top level netball league featuring teams from Australia. In 2017 it replaced the ANZ Championship, which also included teams from New Zealand, as the top level netball league in Australia. Since 2019, the league has ... in 2017. She also appeared in Australian Ninja Warrior in 2019 and has made it to the semi-finals. Now divorced from Rugby player Nathan Charles. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Charles, Verity Living people 1991 births People from Grafton, New So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephanie Wood
Stephanie Wood (born 28 November 1991), also known as Steph Wood, is an Australia netball international. Wood was a member of the Australia teams that won the silver medals at the 2018 Commonwealth Games and at the 2019 Netball World Cup. Between 2015 and 2016, Wood played for New South Wales Swifts in the ANZ Championship. Since 2017 she has played for Sunshine Coast Lightning in Suncorp Super Netball. Between 2015 and 2019, she featured in five successive grand finalist squads, winning premierships with Sunshine Coast Lightning in 2017 and 2018. Early life and family Wood was born in Brisbane. Her family moved around because her father served in the Australian Defence Force. The family eventually settled in Brisbane and Brendale. She is the youngest of three girls. Her two older sisters, Jodie and Tracey, also played netball. Playing career Early years Wood started playing netball when she was six and was playing in division one with the Pine Rivers Netball Association w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretel Tippett
Gretel Bueta (née Tippett; born 3 July 1993) is an Australian netball player and former basketball player. Basketball Bueta played for the Australian Institute of Sport in the Women's National Basketball League during the 2010/2011 season. She played half the season with the Logan Thunder in the 2011/2012 season and was named Rookie of the Year for WNBL in 2011 before pulling out due to glandular fever. She also played in 3 junior World Championships - 2009 U/19 World Championships in Thailand where Australia placed 5th. 2010 u/17 World Championships in France where Australia placed 7th and 2011 u/19 World Championships in Chile where Australia placed 4th. In a 24 November 2010 game for the team against the Canberra Capitals, she scored thirteen points and had ten rebounds. Netball In March 2012, Bueta made the switch from Basketball to Netball, registering as a goal attack, goal shooter In 2013, she was used as a replacement player for the Queensland Firebirds for the inju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Scherian
Laura Scherian (born 26 June 1988) is an Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league, playing for the Sunshine Coast Lightning. Scherian began her netball career in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy at the now-defunct AIS Canberra Darters in 2007, before being picked up by the Queensland Firebirds in 2010 in the ANZ Championship. She was not re-signed by the Firebirds in 2011 which led her to be relegated to the second-tier Queensland Fusion team in the Australian Netball League, where she played at for the next six years as an amateur. She would play only sporadically for the Firebirds in those years when required to replace an injured contracted player. In 2017 she was signed as the last contracted player at the Sunshine Coast Lightning in the new Suncorp Super Netball Suncorp Super Netball is the top level netball league featuring teams from Australia. In 2017 it replaced the ANZ Championship, which also included teams from New Zealand, as the top level ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cara Koenen
Cara Koenen (born 27 February 1996) is an Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league, playing for the Sunshine Coast Lightning. Koenan was a foundation player at the Lightning ahead of the club's inaugural season in 2017. She has remained at the club since that time and was most recently re-signed for the 2020 season. She is the only netballer in the league to have originated from Magnetic Island, which is off the coast of Townsville in northern Queensland. On 10 July 2021, Koenen played her 50th national league game, all for the Lightning. Koenen came off the bench to play goal shooter in the gold medal match at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, scoring 15 goals from 15 shots to help Australia win against Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demelza Fellowes
Demelza McCloud ( née Fellowes; born 5 August 1980) is an Australian netball player. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder. McCloud was selected in the Australian national team in 2004 and 2005. Domestically, she has played for the Adelaide Thunderbirds and Melbourne Kestrels in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, and also played in New Zealand for the Otago Rebels in the 2007 National Bank Cup. With the advent of the trans-Tasman ANZ Championship, McCloud was rostered with the Canterbury Tactix in New Zealand for the inaugural season in 2008. For the 2009 season, she signed with the Queensland Firebirds. In 2009, McCloud was selected as part of the World 7 team where players from England, Jamaica, Samoa and Australia (not part of the Diamonds squad) formed a team to play against the Silver Ferns. In 2010, McCloud decided to retire from netball. However, in the first round of the 2010 ANZ Championship, she was called to play for the Melbourne Vixens to repla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hulita Veve
Hulita Veve (born 14 September 1995), previously known as Hulita Haukinima, is an Tongan netball player. Haukinima was a member of the Queensland Firebirds team that won the 2016 ANZ Championship. She has also played for Queensland Fusion in the Australian Netball League and for Firebirds in Suncorp Super Netball. In 2014 she was captain of the Queensland under-19 team that won their Australian National Netball Championships tournament. In 2019 she captained the QUT Wildcats team that won the inaugural HART Sapphire Series title. Early life, family and education Haukinima was born-and-raised in Queensland. She grew up in the Beenleigh and Marsden suburbs of Logan City. She attended Marsden State School and Marsden State High School. While a member of the 2016 Queensland Firebirds ANZ Championship winning team, she worked as a childcare worker in Browns Plains. Haukinima is married to Jerome Veve and is the mother of two boys, Jakiah and Jeremiah. Jerome is a United States ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
