GIANTS Netball Academy is an Australian netball team that represents

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in the Australian Netball League. The team was originally formed in 2016 as a partnership between Netball ACT, Netball New South Wales and

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. Between 2017 and 2019 they played in the ANL as Canberra GIANTS. They were grand finalists in 2018. In 2019, Netball ACT and Giants Netball ended their partnership and the latter relaunched the team as the Giants Netball Academy. Netball ACT subsequently formed a new ANL team,

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History

Canberra Giants

In late 2016, Netball ACT,

and

formed a partnership in order to enter a team in the Australian Netball League. Canberra Giants subsequently replaced

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as Netball ACT's ANL franchise. Between 2017 and 2019, Giants played in the ANL. With a team captained by

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and featuring Maddie Hay, Teigan O'Shannassy and

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, Giants reached the 2018 ANL grand final but lost to Tasmanian Magpies.

GIANTS Netball Academy

In September 2019 it was announced that Netball ACT,

and

had ended their partnership. It was also announced that Netball ACT and Giants Netball would be entering separate teams in the Australian Netball League from 2020. Netball New South Wales and Giants Netball subsequently launched the Giants Netball Academy. Netball ACT subsequently formed a new ANL team,

ANL Grand finals

Home venues

During the 2019 ANL season Canberra Giants played their home matches at the SolarHub ACT Netball Centre and the Genea Netball Centre.

Notable players

2020 squad

;Notes * Toni Anderson, Latika Tombs, Matisse Letherbarrow, Clare Iongi and Claire O'Brien are training partners with

Giants Netball

* Kiera Austin *

* Maddie Hay * Teigan O'Shannassy *

Head coaches

Premierships

* Australian Netball League **''Runners up'': 2018: 1

References

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Academy An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary or tertiary higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membership). The name traces back to Plato's school of philosop ...

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