Julie Corletto (
née Prendergast; born 10 October 1986) is an Australian international
netball
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player. She played for the Australian Diamonds and NSW Swifts but has now retired. She usually played in the positions of goal defence and wing defence. Corletto is the younger sister of former AFL footballer
Ian Prendergast.
Career
Corletto started playing netball at aged 10 in her home town of
Kerang
Kerang is a rural town on the Loddon River in northern Victoria in Australia. It is the commercial centre to an irrigation district based on livestock, horticulture, lucerne and grain. It is located north-west of Melbourne on the Murray V ...
. She made her
Commonwealth Bank Trophy
The Commonwealth Bank Trophy, also referred to as the National Netball League, was the top level national Australian netball league between 1997 and 2007. The league was organized by Netball Australia. Its main sponsor was the Commonwealth Ba ...
debut at the age of 16 for the
Melbourne Phoenix
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, where her style of defence saw her named
Netball Australia's best new talent. She was selected in the Australian open squad at the age of 17. In 2005 she captained the Australian U-21 team to a bronze medal at the World Youth Championships, while on the comeback trail from a stress fracture in her foot.
In 2007 Corletto was recruited from the Melbourne Phoenix to cross-town rivals,
Melbourne Kestrels
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. Also that year, she was named in the
Australian national team to tour England in a tri-series. However, after injuring her ankle in the first minutes of the season opener, the local derby between Phoenix and Kestrels, she was forced to pull out, with Melbourne Kestrels teammate
Rebecca Bulley
Rebecca Bulley (born 18 August 1982), also known as Rebecca Strachan, is a former Australia netball international. Between 2008 and 2015 she made 42 senior appearances for Australia. Bulley was a member of the Australia teams that won the gold ...
called up in her place. But a few months later Corletto went on to make a debut for Australia against
Jamaica
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, and played goal defence during a subsequent Australian series win against
New Zealand
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. In November 2007, she won her first ever world championship title, as the youngest member of the victorious Australian team.
In 2008 Corletto signed with the
Melbourne Vixens
Melbourne Vixens is an Australian netball team based in Melbourne, Victoria. Since 2017 they have represented Netball Victoria in Suncorp Super Netball. Between 2008 and 2016, they played in the ANZ Championship. The team was formed in 2007 wh ...
to play in the new trans-Tasman
ANZ Championship
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. She again played for the Vixens in the 2009 (and married
Melbourne Tigers
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The team made their debut in the NBL in 1984 as ...
basketballer
Daryl Corletto
Daryl Corletto (born 24 August 1981) is an Australian-British professional basketball player.
Early life and career
Corletto grew up in Altona Meadows, Victoria, and played for the Werribee Devils. His father influenced him to pursue a basketba ...
). She capped off the 2009 season with the ANZ Championship premiership-winning Vixens, coming runner-up in the Vixens' Best & Fairest, and being awarded the Liz Ellis Diamond,
[ the highest and most prestigious individual honour in Australian netball, awarded to the player that has polled the most votes across the ANZ Championship and Australian Diamonds seasons. Corletto's 2010 season was interrupted with her having to undergo knee surgery on both knees, thus missing out in representing Australia in the Commonwealth Games.
Corletto made up for her misfortunes in 2011, returning to the Vixens team during round 5 of the 2011 season, and being named in the Diamonds Squad to represent Australia in the World Netball Championships. At the end of the 2012 ANZ championship season, she announced she was leaving the Vixens to sign with the New Zealand team the ]Northern Mystics
Northern Mystics are a New Zealand netball team based in Auckland. Between 2008 and 2016, they played in the ANZ Championship. Since 2017 they have represented Netball Northern in the ANZ Premiership. Netball Northern is the governing body t ...
in 2013 to join husband Daryl
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Male variations of this name include: Darlin, Daryl, Darrell, Darryl, Daryll, Darryll, Darrell, Darrel.
Female and unisex variations of this name include: Daryl, Darian, Dareen, Darell ...
,[Dana Johannse]
"Netball: Sport's courting couple reunited as Mystic's new signing hits town"
New Zealand, 28 August 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012. who had re-signed with the New Zealand Breakers
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. She played for the Northern Mystics
Northern Mystics are a New Zealand netball team based in Auckland. Between 2008 and 2016, they played in the ANZ Championship. Since 2017 they have represented Netball Northern in the ANZ Premiership. Netball Northern is the governing body t ...
in 2013 and 2014. Corletto played in the Australian Netball Diamonds
The Australia national netball team, also known as the Australian Diamonds, represent Netball Australia in international netball tournaments such as the INF Netball World Cup, the Commonwealth Games, the Constellation Cup, the Netball Quad S ...
2014 Commonwealth Games
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team that won the gold medal.
In 2015, Corletto was part of the New South Wales Swifts
New South Wales Swifts are an Australian netball team based in Sydney, New South Wales. Since 2017 they have represented Netball New South Wales in Suncorp Super Netball. Between 2008 and 2016, they played in the ANZ Championship. The team was ...
team that lost in the ANZ Championship
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finals to the Queensland Firebirds
Queensland Firebirds are an Australian netball team based in Brisbane, Queensland. 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 the ...
. She also won the gold medal playing for the Diamonds at 2015 Netball World Cup
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, playing with injured knees and a broken foot. Corletto subsequently announced her retirement from international netball after the tournament.
ANZ Championship accolades
* 2011 Melbourne Vixens Coaches Award
Netball career facts
* 2015 World Championship gold medal
* 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games Netball Team
* 2011 World Championship gold medal (extra-time)
* 2009 Liz Ellis Diamond
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winner
* 2009 ANZ Championship victory with Melbourne Vixens
* 2007 World Championship gold medal
* 2005 Commonwealth Bank Trophy winner with Melbourne Phoenix
* 2004 Commonwealth Bank Trophy Best New Talent
Personal life
Julie is married to basketballer Daryl Corletto. The two have a son, born in 2016 and a daughter born in 2018
References
External links
2009 Melbourne Vixens profile
Retrieved on 2009-03-27.
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1986 births
Living people
Melbourne Vixens players
Melbourne Kestrels players
Melbourne Phoenix players
New South Wales Swifts players
Northern Mystics players
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
Netball players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games medallists in netball
People from Kerang
Australia international netball players
Victorian Netball League players
Netball players from Victoria (Australia)
Australian expatriate netball people in New Zealand
2007 World Netball Championships players
2011 World Netball Championships players
2015 Netball World Cup players
Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games