Marcia Ella-Duncan
Personal information | |||
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Born |
1963 La Perouse, New South Wales | ||
Netball career | |||
Playing position(s): Centre | |||
Years | National team(s) | Caps | |
1986-1987 | Australian Diamonds | 18 |
Marcia Lynne Ella-Duncan OAM (born 1963) is a former Australian netball player. She became the first Indigenous netballer to represent the Australian Diamonds.
Personal
Ella was born in 1963 in La Perouse, a suburb of Sydney. She is a descendant of the Yuin nation. Her parents moved to Sydney from South Coast, New South Wales.[1] She was the ninth of twelve children. Three brothers - Mark, Glenn and Gary represented the Wallabies.[1] She attended schools in La Perouse and Matraville.[1] She retired from representative netball at 26 after marrying rugby league player Phil Duncan and having her first child.[1] She has two daughters - Lauren and Maddison.[1]
After retiring from netball, Ella-Duncan has been involved in numerous Indigenous Australian issues criminal justice, family and child well-being, community development and land management.[2]
Netball
Ella represented New South Wales (NSW) at eleven and then selected in NSW 16 Schoolgirls and then NSW U21 teams. She started off as a
Ella became the first Indigenous player to represent
Recognition
- 2015 - Australian Netball Hall of Fame
- Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame[4]
- Photographic Portrait held by the National Portrait Gallery of Australia.[2]
References
- ^ ISBN 1740130707.
- ^ a b "Marcia Ella 2006". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ a b "Marcia Ella-Duncan". Netball Australia. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
- ^ a b c Tatz, Colin (2018). Black Pearls : The Aboriginal and Islander Sports Hall of Fame. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press. p. 246.
- Commonwealth of Australia Gazette. Special. No. S159. Australia. 13 June 1988. p. 7. Retrieved 24 July 2023 – via National Library of Australia.