Lisa Michelle Alexander is a retired Australian

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player and coach. She coached the

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from 2011 to 2020.

Career

Alexander is a former Victorian state representative player and a member of the Australian senior wider squad. She was head coach of the

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in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, taking the team to two title wins in 2002 and 2003. She was appointed head coach of the Australian U21 netball team from 2006–07. With the start of the

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in 2008, Alexander was appointed assistant coach of the

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, under head coach Jane Woodlands-Thompson. The Thunderbirds won the ANZ Championship title in 2009. That year she was also an assistant coach for the World 7 team during the 2009 Taini Jamison Trophy Series. On 11 August 2011, Alexander was named as the head coach of the

. She took over the position from Norma Plummer, who stepped down after the

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to coach the

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in the

from 2012. Alexander coached the Diamonds for 102 test matches, becoming the most capped Australian coach of all time. She oversaw gold medal successes at the

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and 2015 Netball World Cup, as well as silver medals at the

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and

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. Her Diamonds coaching career ended in March 2020 after

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declined to extend her contract. As Australian coach Alexander won 83 of her 102 test matches, an impressive 81% winning record.

Personal accolades

On 30 July 2000, she was awarded the

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for services to netball as a player and in the area of coaching and player development. She was awarded the AIS Sport Performance Awards Coach of the Year for 2014. In the

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, Alexander was made a

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for significant service to netball at the elite level.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Alexander, Lisa Australian netball coaches Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian netball players Members of the Order of Australia Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Australia national netball team coaches Netball players from Victoria (state) Melbourne Phoenix coaches Commonwealth Bank Trophy coaches Adelaide Thunderbirds coaches