West Coast Fever’s Jhaniele Fowler has taken home the Suncorp Super Netball Player of the Year for the fourth year running at the Australian Netball Awards on Wednesday night.
Fowler again finished the 2021 season as the league’s top goal scorer with 891 goals and also had three perfect 100 per cent shooting accuracy matches.
Premiership winning coach Briony Akle was named the Joyce Brown Coach of the Year for her efforts in leading the NSW Swifts to their second league title since 2019.
GIANTS Netball goal attack Sophie Dwyer was rewarded for her break-out season, winning the Suncorp Super Netball Rising Star Award.
And the 2021 Suncorp Super Netball Team of the Year was revealed:
- Goal shooter – Jhaniele Fowler (West Coast Fever)
- Goal attack – Jo Harten (GIANTS Netball)
- Wing attack – Maddie Hay (GIANTS Netball)
- Centre – Kim Ravaillion (Queensland Firebirds)
- Wing defence – Gabi Simpson (Queensland Firebirds)
- Goal defence – Sunday Aryang (West Coast Fever)
- Goal keeper – Courtney Bruce (West Coast Fever)
- Attack reserve – Sam Wallace (NSW Swifts)
- Centre reserve – Jamie-Lee Price (GIANTS Netball)
- Defence reserve – Shamera Sterling (Adelaide Thunderbirds)
In other news at Netball Australia's night of nights, West Coast Fever captain and Origin Diamonds defender Courtney Bruce celebrated her 28th birthday by taking out netball’s highest honour, the 2021 Liz Ellis Diamond.
Bruce claimed her first Liz Ellis Diamond after stand-out domestic and international seasons with the West Coast Fever and Origin Australian Diamonds.
The International Player of the Year was taken out by Origin Australian Diamonds captain and Melbourne Vixens star Liz Watson, after a standout performance during the Constellation Cup against the New Zealand Silver Ferns in March.
And Andrea Booth was named the Lorna McConchie Umpire of the Year for her contribution to umpiring across the 2021 Suncorp Super Netball season.
