April Brandley Explained

April Brandley
Fullname:April Brandley
Maidenname:Letton
Birth Date:19 April 1990
Height:185frac=2NaNfrac=2
Positions:GK, GD, WD
Clubyears1:2011
Clubyears2:2012–2014
Clubyears3:2015–2016
Clubyears4:2017–2019

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] |- style="background-color: #eaeaea"! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2017|style="text-align:center;"|Magpies| 0/0 || 0 || 8 || 36 || 0 || 16 || 56 || 216 || 11 || 15 |- ! scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2018|style="text-align:center;"|Magpies| 0/0 || 1 || 3 || 44 || 2 || 20 || 39 || 157 || 22 || 13|- class="sortbottom"! colspan=2| 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20120426010658/http://nswswifts.com.au/extra.asp?ID=13315 NSW Swifts official player profile
  2. http://www.westcoastfever.com.au/Team/West-Coast-Fever-2016/ContentId/2767 April Brandly player profile, West Coast Fever website
  3. Web site: Collingwood’s Diamond-encrusted Magpies netball team the envy of the world. Daily Telegraph. 21 September 2016.
  4. Web site: Brandley and Sinclair back in Magpies nest. 13 September 2018. Magpies Netball. 13 September 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20190303125352/http://magpiesnetball.com.au/news/brandley-and-sinclair-back-in-magpie-nest/. 3 March 2019. dead.
  5. Web site: A baby break for Brandley. Magpies Netball. 4 September 2019.
  6. Web site: Orange is the New Black & White for Super Mum April Brandley. Giants Netball. 30 July 2020.
  7. Web site: April Brandley. Netball Draft Central. 3 April 2019.
  8. http://www.englandnetball.co.uk/regions/international/clubs/australia/australia/april-letton_26_26_37 April Letton player profile, Netball England website
  9. Web site: 17-strong Diamonds squad named for International Test Series. 15 July 2018. Netball Australia.

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