April Brandley (née Letton; born 19 April 1990) is a professional

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player in the Suncorp Super Netball league. She plays in the positions of GK, GD and WD, and has been selected on several occasions for the

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Career

Domestic

Brandley was a temporary replacement player for the Queensland Firebirds in 2011 and played for the New South Wales Swifts in 2012. At the end of the

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, Brandley signed with the Perth-based

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for two seasons. Since 2017 she has played for the Collingwood Magpies. At the Magpies she has established herself as a first-choice defender, and she was re-signed by the club at the end of the 2018 season. After the 2019 season Brandley announced she was pregnant and intended to step away from the game in 2020. However she returned to the game the following year as a training partner for Giants Netball, after the start of the Super Netball season was pushed back to August due to the

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Super Netball statistics

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International

She participated in the

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and

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, both in Liverpool, UK. Her good form at the Collingwood Magpies in the 2018 season resulted in her being was selected in the

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squad for the 2018/19 international season. Brandley was part of the Australian team that finished second and won a silver medal at the

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Accolades

ANZ Championship accolades

* 2012 NSW Swifts Players' Player

National team

* 2018 Australian Diamonds (

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) * 2013 Australian Diamonds (Tour of England) * 2010-2012 Fast5 team

Netball career facts

* Childhood club: Heathcote Waratah NC * 2011 Diamonds training partner * 2011

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– undefeated premiers * 2011 NSW 21/U Team captain - premiers * 2011 21/U National Netball Championship MVP * 2011 ANZ Championship victory with QLD Firebirds (replacement player) * 2010 21/U National Netball Championship co-MVP * 2010 AIS Anne Clark Award * NSW Representative 2005–2011, winning 11 National Championships

References

External links

Magpies Netball profile

Suncorp Super Netball profile

Netball Draft Central profile

Netball Australia profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandley, April 1990 births Living people New South Wales Swifts players West Coast Fever players Collingwood Magpies Netball players Australia international netball players Netball players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in netball Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia 2019 Netball World Cup players Suncorp Super Netball players Australian Netball League players Netball New South Wales Waratahs players Australian Institute of Sport netball players Australia international Fast5 players Queensland Firebirds players Giants Netball players Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Place of birth missing (living people)