Sharon Finnan
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| Full name | Sharon Louise Finnan-White OAM (Née: Finnan) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 September 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation | CEO First Nations Academy of Excellence | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Dr. Andrew White (Paediatrician) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Ethan and Lachlan | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| School | St Joseph's Girls High School, Kogarah, NSW | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sharon Louise Finnan-White OAM (née Finnan, born 7 September 1967) is a former Australian netball player and a two-time winner of the Netball World Cup with the Australian national netball team.[1]
Finnan was born in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills, New South Wales. She played for the New South Wales Under-21 and Open team from 1988–1997 and was invited to attend the Australian Institute of Sport program in 1988. She was first selected to play for the national team in the 1990 Commonwealth Games and retired from netball in 2000.[2]
As of 2015[update], Finnan-White lives in Townsville.[2]
In the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours list, she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.[3] In 2000, she was awarded the Australian Sports Medal for services to netball development.[4]
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- Living people
- Netball players from Sydney
- Queensland Firebirds players
- Indigenous Australian netball players
- Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
- Australia international netball players
- Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
- Sydney Sandpipers players
- Australian Institute of Sport netball players
- Esso/Mobil Superleague players
- 1967 births
- 1991 World Netball Championships players
- 1999 World Netball Championships players
- 20th-century Australian sportswomen