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Lisa Alexander (netball)

Australian netball coach

Summary

Australian netball coach

Field	Value
name	Lisa Alexander
honorific-suffix
occupation	Teacher, Netball coach
coachyears1	ca. 2002–03
coachteam1	Melbourne Phoenix
coachyears2	2006–07
coachteam2	Australia U21
coachyears3	2008–11
coachteam3	Adelaide Thunderbirds (asst)
coachyears4	2009
coachteam4	World VII (asst)
coachyears5	2011–2020
coachteam5

|honorific-suffix= Lisa Michelle Alexander is an Australian netball player and coach. She coached the Australia national netball team from 2011 to 2020.

Career

Alexander is a former Victorian state representative player and a member of the Australian senior wider squad. She was head coach of the Melbourne Phoenix in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, taking the team to two title wins in 2002 and 2003. She was appointed head coach of the Australian U21 netball team from 2006–07. With the start of the ANZ Championship in 2008, Alexander was appointed assistant coach of the Adelaide Thunderbirds, under head coach Jane Woodlands-Thompson. The Thunderbirds won the ANZ Championship title in 2009. That year she was also an assistant coach for the World 7 team during the 2009 Taini Jamison Trophy Series.

On 11 August 2011, Alexander was named as the head coach of the Australia national netball team. She took over the position from Norma Plummer, who stepped down after the 2011 World Netball Championships to coach the West Coast Fever in the ANZ Championship from 2012. As Australian coach Alexander won 83 of her 102 test matches, an impressive 81% winning record.

Personal accolades

On 30 July 2000, she was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for services to netball as a player and in the area of coaching and player development. She was awarded the AIS Sport Performance Awards Coach of the Year for 2014. In the 2021 Australia Day Honours, Alexander was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to netball at the elite level.

References

(11 August 2011). "Alexander is new Australia netball coach". [[The Sydney Morning Herald]].
Netball Australia. (11 August 2011). "Alexander appointed Diamonds coach".
(11 February 2020). "Australian Diamonds Coach To Step Aside". Netball Australia.
(11 February 2020). "Netball Australia's 'appetite for change' seals Lisa Alexander's Diamonds fate". The Guardian.
(15 February 2020). "Outgoing Australia netball coach Lisa Alexander reflects on her plans after the Diamonds job". ABC News.
"Lisa Alexander". [[Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet (Australia).
"Rabbitohs, Fearnley, Fox win top ASPAS".
"Ms Lisa Michelle ALEXANDER". Australian Government.

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