Julie Corletto
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| Full name | Julie Corletto (née Prendergast) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 31 October 1986[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 184 cm (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | Cooper (born 2016), Zara (born 2018), Harvey (born 2021) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Relatives | Ian Prendergast (AFL player) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing position(s): GD, WD, GK | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Club team(s) | Apps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | New South Wales Swifts | 35 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2014 | Northern Mystics | 13 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2012 | Melbourne Vixens | 40 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Melbourne Kestrels | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–06 | Melbourne Phoenix | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | National team(s) | Caps | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–present | Australian national team | 52 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–04 | Australia U21 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Last updated: 2009-03-27 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Julie Prendergast (born 31 October 1986) is an Australian international netball player. She played for the Australian Diamonds and NSW Swifts but has now retired. She usually played in the positions of goal defence and wing defence. Corletto is the younger sister of former AFL footballer Ian Prendergast and former Victorian State netballer Karen Dennis, (née Prendergast).
Career
Corletto started playing netball at aged 10 in her home town of Kerang. She made her Commonwealth Bank Trophy debut at the age of 16 for the Melbourne Phoenix, where her style of defence saw her named Netball Australia's best new talent. She was selected in the Australian open squad at the age of 17. In 2005 she captained the Australian U-21 team to a bronze medal at the World Youth Championships, while on the comeback trail from a stress fracture in her foot.
In 2007 Corletto was recruited from the Melbourne Phoenix to cross-town rivals,
In 2008 Corletto signed with the Melbourne Vixens to play in the new trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. She again played for the Vixens in the 2009. She capped off the 2009 season with the ANZ Championship premiership-winning Vixens, coming runner-up in the Vixens' Best & Fairest, and being awarded the Liz Ellis Diamond,[1] the highest and most prestigious individual honour in Australian netball, awarded to the player that has polled the most votes across the ANZ Championship and Australian Diamonds seasons. Corletto's 2010 season was interrupted with her having to undergo knee surgery on both knees, thus missing out in representing Australia in the Commonwealth Games.
Corletto made up for her misfortunes in 2011, returning to the Vixens team during round 5 of the 2011 season, and being named in the Diamonds Squad to represent Australia in the World Netball Championships. At the end of the 2012 ANZ championship season, she announced she was leaving the Vixens to sign with the New Zealand team the
In 2015, Corletto was part of the New South Wales Swifts team that lost in the ANZ Championship finals to the Queensland Firebirds. She also won the gold medal playing for the Diamonds at 2015 Netball World Cup, playing with injured knees and a broken foot. Corletto subsequently announced her retirement from international netball after the tournament.
ANZ Championship accolades
- 2011 Melbourne Vixens Coaches Award
Netball career facts
- 2015 World Championship gold medal
- 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games Netball Team
- 2011 World Championship gold medal (extra-time)
- 2009 Liz Ellis Diamondwinner
- 2009 ANZ Championship victory with Melbourne Vixens
- 2007 World Championship gold medal
- 2005 Commonwealth Bank Trophy winner with Melbourne Phoenix
- 2004 Commonwealth Bank Trophy Best New Talent
Personal life
Julie has three Children, Cooper (2016), Zara (2018) & Harvey (2021)
References
- ^ a b "Julie Prendergast". netball.com.au. Netball Australia. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
- ^ Rebecca Williams "Julie Corletto walks out on Melbourne Vixens to join Northern Mystics" Melbourne, 20 August 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
- ^ Dana Johannsen "Netball: Sport's courting couple reunited as Mystic's new signing hits town" New Zealand, 28 August 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
External links
- 2009 Melbourne Vixens profile. Retrieved on 2009-03-27.
