2017 Suncorp Super Netball season | |
League: | Suncorp Super Netball |
Sport: | Netball |
Duration: | 18 February – 17 June 2017 |
No Of Teams: | 8 |
Tv: | Nine Network |
Season: | Regular season |
Minor Premiers: | Melbourne Vixens |
Mvp: | Geva Mentor |
Mvp Link: | NNL Player of the Year Award |
Top Scorer: | Caitlin Thwaites (COL: 594 goals) |
Top Scorer Link: | NNL Leading Goalscorer Award |
Finals: | Finals |
Finals Champ: | Sunshine Coast Lightning |
Finals Runner-Up: | Giants Netball |
Nextseason Link: | 2018 Suncorp Super Netball season |
Nextseason Year: | 2018 |
The 2017 Suncorp Super Netball season was the inaugural season of the premier netball league in Australia, following the disbanding of the ANZ Championship in 2016. The regular season began on 18 February 2017 and concluded with the Grand Final on 17 June 2017.[1]
Expansion team Sunshine Coast Lightning won the Grand Final, comfortably defeating Giants Netball at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.[2] [3]
The season was played over 14 rounds, allowing every team to play each other twice, once at home and once away. The top 4 teams on the standings at the conclusion of the regular season qualified for the finals series. In the first week of the finals series, the 1st ranked team hosted the 2nd ranked team in the major semi-final (with the winner of that match to qualify for the Grand Final) and the 3rd ranked team hosted the 4th ranked team in the minor semi-final (with the loser of that match eliminated). The loser of the major semi-final then hosted the winner of the minor semi-final in the preliminary final. The winner of the major semi-final then hosted the winner of the preliminary final in the Grand Final.[1] [4] YES
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Award | width=125 | Winner | width=125 | Position | width=125 | Team | width=75 | Ref. |
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Player of the Year Award | Geva Mentor | GK | Sunshine Coast Lightning | Ref. | ||||
Grand Final Most Valuable Player Award | Karla Mostert | GD | Sunshine Coast Lightning | Ref. | ||||
Young Star Award | Liz Watson | WA | Melbourne Vixens | Ref. | ||||
Joyce Brown Coach of the Year | Simone McKinnis | Coach | Melbourne Vixens | Ref. | ||||
Leading Goalscorer | GS | Collingwood Magpies | Ref. | |||||
Team of the Year | Mwai Kumwenda | GS | Melbourne Vixens | Ref. | ||||
Tegan Philip | GA | Melbourne Vixens | Ref. | |||||
Liz Watson | WA | Melbourne Vixens | Ref. | |||||
Laura Langman | C | Sunshine Coast Lightning | Ref. | |||||
Gabi Simpson | WD | Queensland Firebirds | Ref. | |||||
Jo Weston | GD | Melbourne Vixens | Ref. | |||||
Geva Mentor | GK | Sunshine Coast Lightning | Ref. |
Team | width=125 | Captain | width=125 | Coach | width=60 | Ref. |
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Adelaide Thunderbirds | Erin Bell | Dan Ryan | Ref. | |||
Collingwood Magpies | Madison Robinson | Kristy Keppich-Birrell | Ref. | |||
Giants Netball | Kimberlee Green | Julie Fitzgerald | Ref. | |||
Melbourne Vixens | Kate Moloney | Simone McKinnis | Ref. | |||
NSW Swifts | Abbey McCulloch | Rob Wright | Ref. | |||
Queensland Firebirds | Gabi Simpson | Ref. | ||||
Sunshine Coast Lightning | Geva Mentor | Noeline Taurua | Ref. | |||
West Coast Fever | Natalie Medhurst | Stacey Marinkovich | Ref. |