Liz Ellis
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| Full name | Elizabeth Ellis | |
| Date of birth | January 17, 1973 | |
| Place of birth | Windsor, Australia | |
| Previous Teams | Sydney Swifts (1993–2007) Australia (1992–2007) |
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| Years as Player | 1992–2007 | |
| Championships as Player | 1995, 1999, 2007 | |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |
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Competitor for  Australia |
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| Gold | 1998 Kuala Lumpur | ||
| Gold | 2002 Manchester | ||
Elizabeth (Liz) Ellis (born 17 January 1973) is an Australian former netball player, who was captain of the Australian netball team from 1992 until her retirement from the sport in 2007.
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[edit] Early life and education
She was born in Windsor, New South Wales on 17 January 1973 [1]. After finishing high school, Ellis attended the Australian Institute of Sport on a netball scholarship. She also completed a law degree at Macquarie University while she worked her way up the ranks of Australian netball.[2]
[edit] Netball Career
[edit] Domestic
Ellis became the captain of the Sydney Swifts in 2000. She was the captain for their 2001, 2004, 2006 and 2007 Commonwealth Bank Trophy premierships.
In 2006, she displayed champion qualities by rebounding from a career-threatening knee reconstruction (see below) to play one of her best ever netball seasons, leading the Sydney Swifts through an undefeated season, and culminating with her being named best-on-court in the 2006 Commonwealth Bank Trophy Grand Final against the Adelaide Thunderbirds.
She has won Netball Australia's Most Valued Player Award, the most prized individual award in Australian netball, four times, in 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2006.
[edit] Career outside netball
Ellis is a fully-qualified solicitor, but gave up legal work up to concentrate on playing professional netball and media work. She has been a regular panellist [3]on a number of sports panel shows such as The Fat. For five years she presented a weekly sports segment on the ABC's national youth radio network, Triple J. She has also appeared several times on The Glass House and the Triple M show The Cage [4]. Her business activities include running junior coaching clinics amongst a number of other activities and endorsements.
She currently lives in the Northern Beaches of Sydney with her husband, Matthew Stocks. She is also known to be one of the sexiest athletes in Australia with her trademark long legs.[5]
