April Brandley
Personal information
Full name April Brandley (née Letton)
Born (1990-04-19) 19 April 1990 (age 33)
Height 185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Netball career
Playing position(s): GK, GD, WD
Years Club team(s) Apps
2011 NNSW Waratahs
2012–2014 New South Wales Swifts
2015–2016 West Coast Fever
2017–2019 Collingwood Magpies
Medal record
Netball World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2019 Liverpool Netball
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Gold Coast Netball
World Netball Series
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Liverpool Fastnet

April Brandley (née Letton; born 19 April 1990) is a retired professional Australian netball player in the Suncorp Super Netball league. She played in the positions of GK, GD and WD, and has been selected on several occasions for the Australia national netball team.

Career

Domestic

Brandley was a temporary replacement player for the Queensland Firebirds in 2011 and played for the New South Wales Swifts in 2012.[1] At the end of the 2014 ANZ Championship season, Brandley signed with the Perth-based West Coast Fever for two seasons.[2] Since 2017 she has played for the Collingwood Magpies.[3] At the Magpies she has established herself as a first-choice defender, and she was re-signed by the club at the end of the 2018 season.[4] After the 2019 season Brandley announced she was pregnant and intended to step away from the game in 2020.[5] However she returned to the game the following year as a training partner for Giants Netball, after the start of the Super Netball season was pushed back to August due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[6]

Super Netball statistics

Statistics are correct to the end of the 2018 season.[7]
Season Team G/A GA RB CPR FD IC DF PN TO MP
2017 Magpies 0/0 0 8 36 0 16 56 216 11 15
2018 Magpies 0/0 1 3 44 2 20 39 157 22 13
Career 0/0 1 11 80 2 36 95 373 33 28

International

She participated in the 2010 World Netball Series and 2011 World Netball Series, both in Liverpool, UK.[8] Her good form at the Collingwood Magpies in the 2018 season resulted in her being was selected in the Australian Diamonds squad for the 2018/19 international season.[9] Brandley was part of the Australian team that finished second and won a silver medal at the 2019 Netball World Cup.

Accolades

ANZ Championship accolades

National team

Netball career facts

References

  1. ^ NSW Swifts official player profile. Retrieved on 2011-11-29.
  2. ^ April Brandly player profile, West Coast Fever website Archived 7 February 2016 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2016_02_02.
  3. ^ "Collingwood's Diamond-encrusted Magpies netball team the envy of the world". Daily Telegraph. 21 September 2016.
  4. ^ "Brandley and Sinclair back in Magpies nest". Magpies Netball. 13 September 2018. Archived from the original on 3 March 2019. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  5. ^ "A baby break for Brandley". Magpies Netball. 4 September 2019.
  6. ^ "Orange is the New Black & White for Super Mum April Brandley". Giants Netball. 30 July 2020.
  7. ^ "April Brandley". Netball Draft Central. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
  8. ^ April Letton player profile, Netball England website Archived 9 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2011-11-30.
  9. ^ "17-strong Diamonds squad named for International Test Series". Netball Australia. 15 July 2018.

External links

Queensland Firebirds 2011 ANZ Championship winners (1st Premiership)
Australia squad at the 2019 Netball World Cup (2nd place)
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