Liz Ellis: Netball Australia's biggest critic to shake things up from the inside | Megan Maurice

30/04/2024 04:14

The former Diamonds captain joins the board of the ailing organisation with considerable knowledge and a clear blueprint to lift the sport

Lasting, structural change rarely comes from one person alone. It usually happens through collective efforts that often involve people in power and those on the outside. But often these actions require a spark – and that is where one person can make a difference. For netball in Australia – a sport that has been battling waves of off-court controversy over the past four years – that spark may have arrived in the form of Liz Ellis.

A year on from when multiple attempts to join the Netball Australia board were rebuffed, Australia's most capped international player finally has the seat at the table that she has so craved. She revealed last year she had sounded out NA's chair, Wendy Archer, on two occasions when vacancies were coming up, but in the first instance the board was seeking a candidate with a financial background and in the second the two incumbents were reappointed.