Netball Australian Capital Territory

Netball Australian Capital Territory is the governing body for netball in the Australian Capital Territory. It is affiliated to Netball Australia. It is responsible for organizing and managing the association's representative teams including Capital Darters, who compete in the Australian Netball Championships and The Capital Spirit, who compete in Netball NSW Premier League. It is also responsible for organizing and managing the HCF State League as well as other leagues and competitions for junior and youth teams. Its headquarters are based at the SolarHub ACT Netball Centre in Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory. It was originally founded in the early 1940s as the ACT Women's Basketball Association and was initially affiliated to the New South Wales Women's Basketball Association. In 1975 it became affiliated directly to the All Australia Netball Association.

Netball Australian Capital Territory

Jurisdiction	Australian Capital Territory
Abbreviation	Netball ACT NACT
Founded	1940s
Affiliation	Netball Australia
Headquarters	SolarHub ACT Netball Centre
Location	435 Northbourne Avenue Lyneham, ACT
President	Sue Scanlan
CEO	Matthew Battams
Official website
act.netball.com.au

History

Netball ACT was originally founded in the early 1940s as the ACT Women's Basketball Association. While netball was played earlier than this in the Australian Capital Territory, mainly between school teams, this was the first formal association. It was initially affiliated to the New South Wales Women's Basketball Association. 1970 saw the creation of the Canberra Netball Association and the South Canberra Netball Association to accommodate increasing participation and the growing number of players. In 1975 the ACT Netball Association became affiliated directly to the All Australia Netball Association. This move was supported by Netball New South Wales and required a change to the national governing body's constitution, allowing territories to be admitted.^[1][2]

Since 1990, the headquarters of Netball ACT have been located at the Solarhub Netball Centre, in Lyneham, Australian Capital Territory.^[2][3]

Representative teams

Current

Team	Leagues	Years
Capital Darters[4][5][6][7][8]	Australian Netball Championships	2021–
The Capital Spirit[7][8][9][10]	Netball NSW Premier League	2020–
Under-19, Under-17[11]	Australian National Netball Championships

Former

Team	Leagues	Years
Australian Institute of Sport	Australian Netball League[12][13] Esso/Mobil Superleague[14][15][16]	2008–2012 1985–1996
Canberra Darters	Australian Netball League[17][18][19]	2008–2016
Canberra Giants	Australian Netball League[7][19][20][21]	2017–2019
AIS Canberra Darters	Commonwealth Bank Trophy[22][23][24]	2003–2007

Competitions

• HCF State League^[25]
• Capital Chemist Junior Championships^[26]
• Social Competitions^[27]

Member associations

Association	Region/city/town	Founded
ACT Men's and Mixed Netball[28][29]		2021
Arawang Netball Association	Stirling	1976
Belconnen Netball Association	Belconnen	1975
Canberra Netball Association[30]	Canberra	1970
South Canberra Netball Association	South Canberra	1970
Tuggeranong Netball Association	Tuggeranong	1985

Source:^[1][2][31]

Netball ACT board

President

Members	Years
1975–19xx	Marj McMahon[1]
20xx–2014	Sue Scanlan[17]
2014–2016	Paul Donohue[17][18][19]
2016	Lauren Gale[19]
2017–2020	Louise Bilston[7][8][20][21][32]
2020–	Sue Scanlan[8][33]

CEO

Members	Years
2019–2020	David Marjoribanks[7][34][35]
2020–	Matthew Battams[8]

See also

• Sport portal
• Australia portal

• Sport in the Australian Capital Territory