Natalie Avellino

Natalie Avellino

Personal information
Full name	Natalie Ann Allison Avellino
Born	15 December 1970 (1970-12-15) (age 40)
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Netball career
Positions	WA, GA, GS
Medal record Competitor for  Australia Commonwealth Games Silver 2006 Melbourne Netball Gold 2002 Manchester Netball Gold 1998 Kuala Lumpur Netball Netball World Championships Silver 2003 Kingston Netball Gold 1999 Christchurch Netball Gold 1995 Birmingham Netball
Updated on 2009-03-12.

Natalie Avellino (born 15 December 1970)^[1] is a retired Australian netballer, and current co-coach of the Southern Steel netball team in the ANZ Championship. She made the Australia national netball team from 1994–1995, 1997–1999 and again in 2002–2003 and again in 2006 which included key competitions like three world championships and three Commonwealth Games.

Domestically, Avellino played for three Australian Commonwealth Bank Trophy teams, the Adelaide Ravens, Sydney Sandpipers and the Sydney Swifts. In 2004 she fell out with Netball Australia and was drafted to New Zealand playing for the Invercargill-based Southern Sting in the National Bank Cup, a team which won seven out of ten of the National Bank Cup titles (1999–2004, 2007) as a backup shooter for Donna Wilkins and Tania Dalton who later got injured.

Avellino played for the Sting until 2007 when she retired to become the Southland Netball coach in the National Provincial Championships. She recently took Southland to the National Provincial Champs, where they won the National title for the first time in 49 years after previously being big contenders in the 50's. She has since been announced as the new Southern Steel co-coach and will work with former Otago Rebels coach and current New Zealand under 21 mentor Janine Southby. ^[2] They replace Robyn Broughton who had coached the Steel for the previous four seasons, and all ten years in the National Bank Cup with the Southern Sting.

Avellino has also worked in New Zealand media. ^[3] She is a netball writer for The Southland Times, and worked for Sky Television as a commentator during the ANZ Championship from 2008-2011. She will give up the microphone in 2012 though, because of her Steel commitments.

References

1. ^ 2006 Commonwealth Games profile. Retrieved on 2009-03-12.
2. ^ "Netball: Steel name new coaches". The New Zealand Herald. NZPA. 20 May 2011. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10726960. Retrieved 27 October 2011. 
3. ^ [1] Natalie Avellino SKY SPORT Retrieved on 2001-05-23.

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Name	Avellino, Natalie
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Date of birth	15 December 1970
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