April Brandley
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| Full name | April Brandley (Née: Letton) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 April 1990 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 185 cm (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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April Brandley (née Letton; born 19 April 1990) is a retired professional Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league. She played in the positions of GK, GD and WD, and has been selected on several occasions for the Australia national netball team.
Career
[edit | edit source]Domestic
[edit | edit source]Brandley was a temporary replacement player for the Queensland Firebirds in 2011 and played for the New South Wales Swifts in 2012.[1] At the end of the 2014 ANZ Championship season, Brandley signed with the Perth-based West Coast Fever for two seasons.[2] Since 2017 she has played for the Collingwood Magpies.[3] At the Magpies she has established herself as a first-choice defender, and she was re-signed by the club at the end of the 2018 season.[4] After the 2019 season Brandley announced she was pregnant and intended to step away from the game in 2020.[5] However she returned to the game the following year as a training partner for Giants Netball, after the start of the Super Netball season was pushed back to August due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]
Super Netball statistics
[edit | edit source]- Statistics are correct to the end of the 2018 season.[7]
| Season | Team | G/A | GA | RB | CPR | FD | IC | DF | PN | TO | MP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Magpies | 0/0 | 0 | 8 | 36 | 0 | 16 | 56 | 216 | 11 | 15 |
| 2018 | Magpies | 0/0 | 1 | 3 | 44 | 2 | 20 | 39 | 157 | 22 | 13 |
| Career | 0/0 | 1 | 11 | 80 | 2 | 36 | 95 | 373 | 33 | 28 | |
International
[edit | edit source]She participated in the 2010 World Netball Series and 2011 World Netball Series, both in Liverpool, UK.[8] Her good form at the Collingwood Magpies in the 2018 season resulted in her being was selected in the Australian Diamonds squad for the 2018/19 international season.[9] Brandley was part of the Australian team that finished second and won a silver medal at the 2019 Netball World Cup.
Accolades
[edit | edit source]ANZ Championship accolades
[edit | edit source]- 2012 NSW Swifts Players' Player
National team
[edit | edit source]- 2018 Australian Diamonds (2018 Commonwealth Games)
- 2013 Australian Diamonds (Tour of England)
- 2010-2012 Fast5 team
Netball career facts
[edit | edit source]- Childhood club: Heathcote Waratah NC
- 2011 Diamonds training partner
- 2011 NNSW Waratahs – undefeated premiers
- 2011 NSW 21/U Team captain - premiers
- 2011 21/U National Netball Championship MVP
- 2011 ANZ Championship victory with QLD Firebirds (replacement player)
- 2010 21/U National Netball Championship co-MVP
- 2010 AIS Anne Clark Award
- NSW Representative 2005–2011, winning 11 National Championships
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ NSW Swifts official player profile. Retrieved on 2011-11-29.
- ^ April Brandly player profile, West Coast Fever website Archived 7 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2016_02_02.
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- ^ April Letton player profile, Netball England website Archived 9 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2011-11-30.
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External links
[edit | edit source]- 1990 births
- Living people
- New South Wales Swifts players
- West Coast Fever players
- Collingwood Magpies Netball players
- Australia international netball players
- Netball players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games netball players for Australia
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists in netball
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for Australia
- 2019 Netball World Cup players
- Suncorp Super Netball players
- Australian Netball League players
- Netball New South Wales Waratahs players
- Australian Institute of Sport netball players
- Australia international Fast5 players
- Queensland Firebirds players
- Giants Netball players
- Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games