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About Liz Ellis
Liz Ellis' career highlights include 3 World Championships, 2 Commonwealth Games Gold Medals and 4 National Premierships, as well as being named Australia's Most Valuable Player on four occasions.
Last year Liz became a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day Honours for "services to netball and the encouragement of women in sport, and to the community through support for a range of charitable organizations".
In 2007 Liz led the Australian Netball team to victory in the World Championship final against New Zealand and was awarded Best Player for the game. Earlier in the year she led Sydney TAB Swifts to their fourth Commonwealth Bank Trophy title, which was also a back-to-back win. In 2006 after an historic undefeated season record Liz's Swifts were awarded National Team of the Year along with West Coast Eagles (AFL) at 2006 Australian Sport Awards.
Netball has become one of Australia's most played sports and Liz has helped increase the game's profile through her on-court talent and off-court drive and passion. In 1997, Liz initiated the Liz Ellis Netball Clinics, which coach more than 2000 young netballers every year.
It is this enthusiasm for promoting netball that has made Liz a positive role model for young sportspeople and it's not surprising she was voted Favourite Female Sports Star for the 2006 Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards.
As well as being one of the country's highest profile elite athletes, Liz is also a highly sought after speaker and broadcaster. She has appeared on numerous television and radio programs as a general sports commentator and presenter, including the 2000 and 2004 Olympics, and 2006 Commonwealth Games. Now commentating the sport she excelled in, Liz can be seen on Channel 10 and ONE HD with Luke Darcy during the netball season. And this year Liz will also be covering the Commonwealth Games for ONE HD.
She has appeared on various TV panel, quiz and chat shows including Good News Week, 20 to 1, David Tench Tonight, 60 Minutes, Sunrise, Celebrity Ready Steady Cook, 110% Tony Squires, ABC TV's The Fat, The Glasshouse and The Einstein Factor. Liz has been heard regularly on Triple M's Wil and Lehmo, The Shebang, The Cage and Dead Set Legends, as well as Radio National, 2UE and ABC, and presented a weekly sports segment on Triple J for five years.
Liz has also contributed to The Australian and Australian Netballer Magazine and written two netball related books Playing the Game and Netball Heroes.
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