Renae Ingles (née Hallinan) (born 18 July 1986 in

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, Australia) is a former Australia netball international who played in 67 tests for Australia.

Career

Ingles was primarily a wing-defence and centre player. She started her career with the

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and played with them for five seasons in the

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, before joining the

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in 2008 in the new

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. In 2009, she was an integral member of the Melbourne Vixens lineup that won the Vixens' first ANZ Championship title. She moved to the

Adelaide Thunderbirds Adelaide Thunderbirds are an Australian netball team based in Adelaide, South Australia. Since 2017 they have played in Suncorp Super Netball. Between 2008 and 2016, they played in the ANZ Championship and between 1997 and 2007, they played in ...

for the 2012 and 2013 season. She stayed with the Thunderbirds until announcing her retirement in 2017. She returned to netball mid-way through the following year for

and was later selected in the

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squad for the 2018/19 international season. Ingles announced her retirement from netball at the end of the 2019 season. Ingles was awarded

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's Australian International Player of the Year in 2009. She was selected in the

squad for the 2018/19 international season.

Major achievements

*Australian Diamonds Commonwealth Games Team 2014 (Gold Medalists) *Liz Ellis Diamond Winner 2013 *Australian Diamonds International Player of the Year 2013 *Tanya Denver Award 2013 *Adelaide Thunderbirds Premiership 2013 * Australian 2010 Commonwealth Games Team (Silver medalists) * Australian Diamonds International Player of the Year 2009 * Melbourne Vixens Premiership 2009 * Vixens Excellence in Life & Sport Award 2009 * Vixens Coaches' Award 2009

Personal life

In August 2014 she announced via Twitter that she would be marrying basketballer

Joe Ingles Joseph Howarth Ingles (born 2 October 1987) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He also represents the Australian national team. He primarily plays at the small ...

. On 29 August 2015 the couple wed at Bird in Hand Winery in Adelaide. In January 2016, Ingles announced she would not play in the 2016 season as she was pregnant. She subsequently gave birth to twins in Melbourne, a girl Milla and boy Jacob. In May 2020, Ingles announced on Instagram she was expecting the couple's third child, and on November 19th, 2020 Jack was born from the couple's US base.

References

External links

Melbourne Vixens ProfileSuper Netball Profile
Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia Netball players at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Adelaide Thunderbirds players Melbourne Vixens players Melbourne Phoenix players 1986 births Living people People educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School ANZ Championship players Netball players from Melbourne Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia Netball players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in netball Australia international netball players Victorian Netball League players Australia international Fast5 players South Australian Sports Institute netball players 2015 Netball World Cup players Medallists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games {{Australia-netball-bio-stub