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A QUARTET of netball stars of the future have been named to cover any injury crisis within the Diamonds ahead of the Commonwealth Games.
ADELAIDE Thunderbirds coach Dan Ryan has scheduled games against Collingwood Magpies, NSW Swifts and Giants Netball in a busy preparation for the Super Netball season.
IT was a phone call Australian netball coach Lisa Alexander first made four years ago but it still ended the same way as it had in 2014 – with one of her players in tears.
NETBALL mum Laura Geitz and veteran Susan Pettitt are beneficiaries of coach Lisa Alexander’s proven policy of favouring form over history but fan favourite Sharni Layton is a casualty.
SHARPSHOOTER Caitlin Bassett will lead Australia into battle at the Commonwealth Games with veteran Susan Pettitt and former captain Laura Geitz also making the cut but Sharni Layton missing.
AFTER overcoming injury and then losing her place in the side, Madi Robinson has fought back to win a place in the Aussie Diamonds’ team for the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
QUEENSLAND Firebirds sensation Laura Geitz has earned her fairytale Australian recall, after the former Diamonds captain was named in the Commonwealth Games team.
AUSTRALIA has claimed a morale-boosting 3-0 clean sweep of the last international netball series prior to the Commonwealth Games with a 67-48 humiliation of New Zealand.
A FORMER coach says the Silver Ferns can no longer consider themselves the second best team in netball but Australian won’t be taking them any less seriously.
DIAMOND great Laura Geitz has praised netball’s support of her dream to return to the highest level of the game as a new mother as an “amazing step forward for women’s sport”.
AUSTRALIA is just a game away from winning the Quad series as the only undefeated team in the international event following their four-goal win over England in London.
DIAMONDS coach Lisa Alexander says she is working with the strongest Australian squad she has ever seen, making the selection of the Commonwealth Games 12 the most difficult ever.
Australian Gabi Simpson says the looming selection for the Commonwealth Games is lifting the Diamond to a new level as they open the Quad series with a 36th straight victory over South Africa — but by their smallest margin in more than half a century.
AUSTRALIA came home hard in the final quarter to see off plucky South Africa by four goals and open their Quad Netball Series campaign in England with a victory.
THE NSW Swifts and Giants will limber up for the Super Netball season with matches against an England side hoping to pull off a major netball sting at the Commonwealth Games.
NETBALL star Laura Geitz is a step closer to playing at a home Commonwealth Games after the “delighted and excited” former Diamonds captain was elevated into the Australian squad.
Australian coach Lisa Alexander says there is pressure on every player in the Diamonds Quad series touring side to perform at their best against South Africa this weekend with Commonwealth Games spots up for grabs.
COACH Lisa Alexander says star defenders Laura Geitz and Sharni Layton “are still in the picture’’ for Commonwealth Games selection as a Diamonds squad minus the pair heads overseas.
AUSTRALIAN netballers will be deliberately distracted and annoyed as much as possible as part of their preparations for the looming Commonwealth Games.