Adelaide Thunderbirds Futures

The Adelaide Thunderbirds Futures is an Australian netball team that represents Netball South Australia in the Australian Netball League. In 2008 they were founder members of the ANL. Between 2008 and 2011 they played as South Australia. After rebranding to the Southern Force, the team was ANL champions in 2012 and 2022 and were runners-up in 2015. The Adelaide Thunderbirds Futures are effectively the representative team of the Netball South Australia Premier League and the reserve team of Adelaide Thunderbirds.

Adelaide Thunderbirds Futures

Founded	2008
Based in	Adelaide
Regions	South Australia
Home venue	Netball SA Stadium
Head coach	Brian Lines
Premierships	2 (2012, 2022)
League	Australian Netball Championships
Website	Adelaide Thunderbirds Futures
Uniform

History

Netball South Australia

Southern Force are effectively the representative team of the Netball South Australia Premier League. They are one of two teams that represent Netball South Australia in senior or national leagues. Their senior team, Adelaide Thunderbirds, has represented Netball South Australia in both the ANZ Championship and Suncorp Super Netball. Southern Force are effectively the reserve team of Thunderbirds.^[1][2][3][4] Between 2008 and 2011, Netball South Australia's ANL team simply played as South Australia. In 2012 they became Southern Force, a name that was first suggested by members of the 2011 ANL squad.^[3][5][6]

ANL/ANC Grand finals

In 2012 with a squad that included Kelly Altmann, Georgia Beaton, Cody Lange, Maddy Proud, Melissa Rowland, Kate Shimmin and Sheree Wingard, Southern Force finished as ANL Champions, defeating NNSW Waratahs 50–36 in the grand final.^[3] In 2015, with a squad that saw Lange, Shimmin and Wingard joined by Sarah Klau, Hannah Petty, Samantha Poolman and Maddy Turner, Southern Force reached the grand final for a second time. However on this occasion they lost 58–46 to Victorian Fury.^[7][8]

Season	Winners	Score	Runners Up	Venue
2012[3][9]	Southern Force	50–36	NNSW Waratahs	Waverley Netball Centre
2015[7][8]	Victorian Fury	58–46	Southern Force	Waverley Netball Centre
2022	Southern Force	59-57	Victorian Fury	Traralgon

Source:^[10]

Home venue

The Thunderbirds Futures play their home games at the Netball SA Stadium.^[11] They have also played home games at the Titanium Security Arena.^[12]

Notable players

2022 squad

Southern Force – 2022 Australian Netball League roster
Players	Coaches
Name Pos DOB Height Club Nat Caps Lucy Austin GS – Lauren Frew GS/GA – Poppy Gilfillan-Silk GA/GS – Georgia Dent WA/C – Tyler Orr C/WD – Sophie Casey WD/C – Chelsea Blackman GD/WD/GK – Jessie Grenvold GK/GD – Jacoba Clough GS/GA – Paris Sinclair C/WD – Jorden Vivian GK/GD – Molly Watson GK/GD –	Head coach Brian Lines Notes (c) – Captain (cc) – Co-captain (vc) – Vice-captain – Injury / maternity leave (TRP) – Temporary Replacement Player
Player profiles: Team website	Last updated: 29 June 2020

Source:^[13]

Internationals

 Australia

• Kate Shimmin

 Australia Fast5

• Samantha Poolman
• Lucy Austin
• Gerogie Horjus

 England

• Beth Cobden
• Kate Shimmin

 New Zealand

• Cathrine Tuivaiti

 Samoa

• Cathrine Tuivaiti

New South Wales Swifts

• Maddy Turner
• Maddy Proud
• Sarah Klau

Adelaide Thunderbirds

• Lucy Austin
• Georgie Horjus
• Sophie Casey
• Hannah Petty
• Kate Shimmin

Sunshine Coast Lightning

• Kate Shimmin

Source:^{[3][4][8][12][13][14][15]}

ANL MVP

The following Southern Force players were named MVP in the Australian Netball League.

Season	Player
2015	Kate Shimmin

Source:^[8][10]

Head coaches

Coach	Years
Tania Obst[3][15]	2010, 2012
Dan Ryan[16][17][18][19]	2013
Tania Obst[8][12]	2015–2016
Brian Lines[4][13][20]	2017–

Premierships

• Australian Netball League
  • Winners: 2012: 1
  • Runners up: 2015: 1