Star pair face missing out on Commonwealth Games selection
Australian netball coach Lisa Alexander is toying with leaving out two former captains from the Commonwealth Games squad.
Australian netball coach Lisa Alexander is toying with leaving out two former captains from the Commonwealth Games squad.
Lisa Alexander's side prevailed 67-48 with an emphatic display that sent an ominous warning to their rivals ahead of this year's Commonwealth Games.
A potential Laura Geitz return in time for the Commonwealth Games has buoyed the Diamonds.
The Diamonds flexed their squad strength muscle with a four-point win over England in the Quad Series on Tuesday.
Australia's netballers have beaten England by four goals in a quad series Test match in London.
Australia has scored a narrow win over South Africa to open netball's Quad Series in London overnight.
Two-time world netball champion and former captain Laura Geitz is back in the Australian Diamonds squad, following a Commonwealth Games camp at the Australian Institute of Sport.
She might still be coming back from exhaustion, but defender Sharni Layton is expected to give the selectors some tough decisions.
NSW Swift Maddy Proud will enter this year's Super Netball season as a published children's author.
The Diamonds are also bucking the trend of taking it one game at a time.
The Diamonds will simulate their Commonwealth Games path at AIS over the next four days.
Netball in Australia enjoyed one of its most historic years in a bumper 2017, and there's more to come.
Australian defender Sharni Layton has been pulled from the Diamonds' squad to play next month's Quad Series.
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Diamonds coach Lisa Alexander will give Laura Geitz a chance to prove herself for the Commonwealth Games at a training camp next year.
Star defender Sharni Layton is set to return to international netball after being selected in the Australian Diamonds' squad for next January's Quad Series matches in London and Johannesburg.
Australian Fast5 coach Stacey Marinkovich believes her young players will emerge stronger from this year's Fast5 World Series despite falling into the bronze medal game.
England is unbeaten and will start Sunday's final day as favourites but Australia found form on Saturday night to beat New Zealand and all but end the reigning champions hopes.
Something about the relentless tempo of Fast5 netball suits Ash Brazill.
Australian coach Lisa Alexander has welcomed the prospect of more selection headaches, after the Diamonds beat New Zealand 58-42 to complete their first Constellation Cup sweep in four years.
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