List of netball coaches in Australia

The following is a list of notable netball coaches in Australia.

National team head coaches

The following is a list of head coaches of the Australia national netball team.

Years	Head coaches	Tournaments
1956	Lorna McConchie[1][2]	1956 tour of England, Scotland and Ceylon
1960	Eunice Gill[3]	1960 tour of New Zealand
1963	Lorna McConchie[4][5]	1963 World Netball Championships
1967	Margaret Pewtress[6][7][8]	1967 World Netball Championships
1971	Wilma Ritchie[9]	1971 World Netball Championships
1975	Joyce Brown[4][10]	1975 World Netball Championships
1979	Wilma Shakespear[4][11]	1979 World Netball Championships
1983	Joyce Brown[12]	1983 World Netball Championships
1985	Pamela Barham[13]	1985 World Games
1987–1989	Wilma Shakespear[4][14][15]	1987 World Netball Championships 1989 World Games
1990	Margaret Corbett[16]	1990 Commonwealth Games
1990	Gaye Teede[17]
1991–1993	Joyce Brown[18][19][20]	1991 World Netball Championships 1993 World Games
1995–2003	Jill McIntosh[21][22][23]	1995 World Netball Championships 1998 Commonwealth Games 1999 World Netball Championships 2002 Commonwealth Games 2003 World Netball Championships
2003–2011	Norma Plummer[24][25][26][27][28][29][30]	2006 Commonwealth Games 2007 World Netball Championships 2010 Constellation Cup 2010 Commonwealth Games 2011 Constellation Cup 2011 World Netball Championships
2011–2020	Lisa Alexander[31][32]	2011 Constellation Cup 2012 Constellation Cup 2013 Constellation Cup 2014 Commonwealth Games 2014 Constellation Cup 2015 Netball World Cup 2015 Constellation Cup 2016 Netball Quad Series 2016 Constellation Cup 2017 Netball Quad Series (January/February) 2017 Netball Quad Series (August/September) 2017 Constellation Cup 2018 Netball Quad Series (January) 2018 Commonwealth Games 2018 Netball Quad Series (September) 2018 Constellation Cup 2019 Netball Quad Series 2019 Netball World Cup 2019 Constellation Cup
2020–	Stacey Marinkovich[33][34][35][36][37]	2021 Constellation Cup

Sources:^[38]

Premiership winning coaches

The following is a list of head coaches who have guided teams to premierships.

Esso/Mobil Superleague

Wilma Shakespear coaching the Australian Institute of Sport team in 1986. Shakespear coached the Australia national netball team at the 1971, 1979 and 1987 World Netball Championships and at the 1989 World Games. She also guided AIS to two premierships in 1985 and 1986.

Season	Head coaches	Team
1985 [39]	Wilma Shakespear	Australian Institute of Sport
1986 [40]	Wilma Shakespear	Australian Institute of Sport
1987		Melbourne Blues
1989	Anne Sargeant	Sydney Tigers
1990	Norma Plummer	Melbourne City
1991	Carol Sykes	Sydney Pulsars
1992	Margaret Corbett	Sydney Pulsars
1993	Patricia Mickan	Adelaide Garville
1994	Margaret Angove	Adelaide Contax
1995 [41]	Carol Sykes	Sydney Electricity
1996	Norma Plummer	Melbourne Pumas

Source:^[42][43][44]

Commonwealth Bank Trophy

Norma Plummer coached the Australia national netball team between 2003 and 2011. She previously guided Melbourne City and Melbourne Pumas to premierships during the Esso/Mobil Superleague era before guiding Melbourne Phoenix to the inaugural Commonwealth Bank Trophy in 1997.

Season	Head coaches	Team
1997 [24][45]	Norma Plummer	Melbourne Phoenix
1998 [46]	Margaret Angove	Adelaide Thunderbirds
1999 [46]	Margaret Angove	Adelaide Thunderbirds
2000 [47]	Joyce Brown	Melbourne Phoenix
2001 [48]	Julie Fitzgerald	Sydney Swifts
2002 [31][49]	Lisa Alexander	Melbourne Phoenix
2003 [31][50]	Lisa Alexander	Melbourne Phoenix
2004 [51]	Julie Fitzgerald	Sydney Swifts
2005 [52]	Julie Hoornweg	Melbourne Phoenix
2006 [25][53]	Julie Fitzgerald	Sydney Swifts
2007 [27][53]	Julie Fitzgerald	Sydney Swifts

ANZ Championship

Noeline Taurua guided Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic to the 2012 ANZ Championship and Sunshine Coast Lightning to the 2017 and 2018 Suncorp Super Netball titles

Season	Head coaches	Team
2008[54]	Julie Fitzgerald	New South Wales Swifts
2009[55]	Julie Hoornweg	Melbourne Vixens
2010[56]	Jane Woodlands-Thompson	Adelaide Thunderbirds
2011[57]	Roselee Jencke	Queensland Firebirds
2012[58][59]	Noeline Taurua	Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic
2013[60]	Jane Woodlands-Thompson	Adelaide Thunderbirds
2014[61]	Simone McKinnis	Melbourne Vixens
2015[62]	Roselee Jencke	Queensland Firebirds
2016[63]	Roselee Jencke	Queensland Firebirds

Suncorp Super Netball

Season	Head coaches	Team
2017[64]	Noeline Taurua	Sunshine Coast Lightning
2018[65]	Noeline Taurua	Sunshine Coast Lightning
2019[66][67]	Briony Akle	New South Wales Swifts
2020[68]	Simone McKinnis	Melbourne Vixens
2021[69][70]	Briony Akle	New South Wales Swifts
2022	Dan Ryan	West Coast Fever

Australian Netball Awards

Between 2011 and 2016, Roselee Jencke guided Queensland Firebirds to five ANZ Championship grand finals, winning three premierships in 2011, 2015 and 2016.

Netball Australia Coach of the Year

Season	Player	Team
2004 [51]	Julie Fitzgerald	Sydney Swifts
2005 [52]	Julie Hoornweg	Melbourne Phoenix
2006 [25]	Julie Fitzgerald	Sydney Swifts
2007 [27]	Julie Fitzgerald	Sydney Swifts

Australian ANZ Championship Coach of the Year

Season	Winner	Team
2008[71]	Julie Fitzgerald	New South Wales Swifts
2009[72]	Julie Hoornweg	Melbourne Vixens
2010[28]	Jane Woodlands-Thompson	Adelaide Thunderbirds
2011[29][57]	Roselee Jencke	Queensland Firebirds
2012[73]	Julie Hoornweg	Melbourne Vixens
2013[60]	Jane Woodlands-Thompson	Adelaide Thunderbirds
2014[74][75][76]	Simone McKinnis	Melbourne Vixens
2015[77][78][79]	Roselee Jencke	Queensland Firebirds
2016[80][81]	Roselee Jencke	Queensland Firebirds

Sources:^[82]

Joyce Brown Coach of the Year

In 2014 Netball Australia introduced the Joyce Brown Coach of the Year award in honour of Joyce Brown.

Season	Winner	Team
2014 [74][75][76]	Roselee Jencke	Queensland Firebirds
2015 [77][78][79]	Lisa Alexander	Australia
2017 [83]	Simone McKinnis	Melbourne Vixens
2018 [84][85]	Stacey Marinkovich	West Coast Fever
2019 [86]	Briony Akle	New South Wales Swifts
2020 [68]	Simone McKinnis	Melbourne Vixens
2021[87][88]	Briony Akle	New South Wales Swifts

Sources:^[82]

Foxtel ANZ Championship All Star coaches

Season	Winner	Team
2011[29][89][90][91]	Roselee Jencke	Queensland Firebirds
2012[73][92]	Noeline Taurua	Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic
2013[93][94]	Jane Woodlands-Thompson	Adelaide Thunderbirds
2014[95][96]	Julie Fitzgerald	Waikato Bay of Plenty Magic
2015[97]	Stacey Rosman	West Coast Fever
2016[98][99][100]	Robert Wright	New South Wales Swifts