Liz Ellis

Liz Ellis (born 17 January, 1973) is an Australian netball player. She is the captain and the best-known player on the current Australian team, not only for her long representative career but for her off-court media work. Ellis plays goalkeeper for both the Australian team and her club team, the highly successful Sydney Swifts, thus usually matching up against the opposing team's best shooter.

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17 January - 1973 - Netball - Goalkeeper - Sydney Swifts

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Joining the senior Australian squad in 1992, she has been a fixture since, as part of the world championship winning sides in 1995 and 1999, as well as the Commonwealth Games gold medal team (a competition as strong as the World Championship, as all the strongest netball teams are part of the Commonwealth) in 1998 and 2002. Made captain of the Sydney Swifts in 2000, she became national captain in 2004.

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1992 - 1995 - 1999 - 1998 - 2002 - 2000

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Ellis is a fully-qualified solicitor, but has given legal work up to concentrate on business and media work. She has been a regular panellist on a number of sports panel shows, where her gently self-deprecating humor has been popular. She has also appeared several times on The Glass House. Her business activities include running junior coaching clinics amongst a number of other activities and endorsements.

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Solicitor - Panel show - The Glass House - Coach

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Ellis lives in Sydney with her husband Matthew Stocks.

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