After searching long and hard, Netball Australia has finally appointed its new Chief Executive Officer.

We sit down with Kelly Ryan to find out what drew her to netball, and how her previous experience in the AFL and sports marketing will influence her tenure.

Hot topics include:
- the super shot
- umpiring funding
- men's netball

Kelly also shares the netty position she played growing up and her favourite Super Netball team.

Collingwood Super Netball head coach Nicole Richardson has been to hell and back this year.

Her side were made defunct six weeks before the end of the Super Netball season, where they finished with their second-ever wooden spoon and won their last two home games in an emotional and bittersweet farewell.

Then she won the Netball World Cup in South Africa with the Diamonds as an assistant coach, standing on the podium alongside five Pies players.

Beyond this, Richardson witnessed Collingwood’s development team win another ANC title in the netball club’s last hurrah.

In this chat, Richardson reflects on her overall time with the Pies, where it all went wrong for the club and her frustrations playing second-fiddle to their football department.

Richardson also shares where she plans to head next and what advice she would give the new SEN-owned team replacing the Pies in the Super Netball league for 2024.

At the end of the 2020 Super Netball season, Chelsea Pitman found herself in a vulnerable position with no plans locked in for 2021, after surviving a miscarriage, an ectopic pregnancy, a tough season away from home in the COVID hub and the disappointment of being dumped by the club she had captained through it all at the Adelaide Thunderbirds.

Aged 32, others may have thrown the towel in, but not Chelsea. She refused to believe it was the end of her netball career.

Instead, she took a step back and played for Garville in the South Australian Premier League and studied to become a police officer.

Then, in early 2022 she received a text from her former coach Dan Ryan offering a lifeline.

Chelsea signed a training partner contract with the West Coast Fever, put her policing plans on hold and moved to WA to carry out the measly $5,000 contract in the hope it might revitalise her career.

Ultimately, it did. Seeing Chelsea play more Super Netball games than she'd anticipated, winning a premiership and scoring a full-time contract for 2023 with the London Pulse.

In this bonus episode, she sits down with Britt to chat about the past year and her remarkable comeback.