
The Netty Life
When netball is life.
Join co-hosts Kate Cornish and Brittany Carter for your weekly one-stop shop of SSN, NSL and ANZP analysis.
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Gungarri woman and former international umpire Stacey Campton is one of Australia's key Indigenous figures in netball.
During her 14-year career at the top, she umpired at World Championships and Commonwealth Games. Since 2021, Stacey has been working as Netball Australia's high performance umpire coach.
Ahead of Super Netball's First Nations Round this weekend, she joins The Netty Life podcast to talk about her family story and netball journey.
Stacey also discusses how she believes we can encourage more Indigenous umpires up through the state pathways to the elite level.
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.
The final round of the regular Super Netball season for 2023 gave us fairytale finishes for two retiring stalwarts of the game, April Brandley (Giants Netball) and Ash Brazil (Collingwood Magpies). The black and white dress of Collingwood was also retired as the club played their last game in Super Netball after what has been an emotional few weeks for all involved.
The Diamonds World Cup squad was finally announced after an ugly stand-off between the playing group and Netball Australia. We discuss the fallout from this soured relationship and if this is indeed the team that can win back the final trophy missing from our national cabinet.