Ashleigh Brazill
| Ashleigh Brazill | |||
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| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Ashleigh Brazill | ||
| Born |
29 December 1989 (place Australia) | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| School | Bargo public school & Picton High School NSW | ||
| Netball career | |||
| Playing position(s): C, WD | |||
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| Last updated: 2016 | |||
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Ashleigh Brazill (born 29 December 1989) Campbelltown, NSW, is an Australian netball player in the ANZ Championship, playing for West Coast Fever. She played for the New South Wales Swifts in 2010 and 2011.[1]
In 2010, Brazill was one of the twelve players selected for the Australian Fastnet Diamonds team and took part in the 2011 World Netball Series in Liverpool. For her performance, Brazill was awarded the FastNet Diamond of the Series. Brazill made the Fastnet team once again in 2012 but was forced to withdraw due to injury She played in the Australian Fastfive team again in 2013 and in 2014.[2]
In 2011, Brazill was nominated for the Best Young Player Award in round 10 of the 2011 ANZ Championship season.
2013 saw Brazill suffer an ankle injury in round 5 of the ANZ Championship. Brazill returned to play a full comeback game in round 10 against the Central Pulse. In an unlucky injury run, Ash was once again sidelined for 6 weeks of the 2014 ANZ Championship Season after exploratory wrist surgery revealed she had torn a tendon from a bone in her wrist.
Brazill played out the 2014 ANL season for the Western Sting, winning joint MVP for the season.
Played for West Coast Fever, WA. Australia. West Coast Fever MVP in 2012. West Coast Fever Captain 2015–present.
Represented Australian in 2013 and 2014 as part of the Fast Five Flyers team, a team of ten for the Fast Five Tournament, against New Zealand, South Africa, Jamaica, England and Malawi. Coming runners up each year.
In 2015 Brazill was selected in the Australian Diamonds squad. Unfortunately she missed out on team selection for the world cup but she was later named in the team for the 3rd game of the Constellation Cup. Brazill made her debut in WD and played out a full game.
Brazill was unnamed in the 2016 team for the England tour but was later called up as a replacement for Renae Ingles. Brazill was played frequently in C throughout the tour.
She married her long-term female partner Brooke Grieves on 30 January 2016 in Western Australia.[3]
References
- ↑ 2011 New South Wales Swifts profile
- ↑ Ashleigh Brazill player profile, Netball England website Archived June 9, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ "Australian Netball Diamond Ash Brazill's wedding video is an absolute tear jerker.". Mamamia. 2016-05-31. Retrieved 2016-06-03.