20 Facts About Liz Ellis

Liz Ellis is the most capped international player for Australian netball.

Liz Ellis completed a law degree at Macquarie University while she worked her way up the ranks of Australian netball.

Liz Ellis went on to be a mainstay of the Australian Netball Team, participating in the 1995,1999,2003 and 2007 World Championships and the 2002 and 2006 Commonwealth Games.

Liz Ellis was named Vice-Captain of the team in 2000 and Captain in 2004 and broke the record for the highest number of tests played for Australia in 2005.

Liz Ellis became the captain of the Sydney Swifts in 2000.

Liz Ellis was the captain for their team in 2001,2004,2006 and 2007 Commonwealth Bank Trophy premierships.

Liz Ellis played her entire domestic career for the Swifts and holds the record for the most games played in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy.

In October 2005, Liz Ellis suffered a career-threatening knee injury in a match against New Zealand in Auckland.

Liz Ellis defied the critics by making a full recovery from a full knee reconstruction and producing some of the best netball of her career in the two years that followed.

Liz Ellis announced her retirement from netball on 19 November 2007, two days after leading Australia to a World Championship victory over New Zealand.

Since her retirement, Liz Ellis has been a netball commentator, working initially for Fox Sports and Network Ten during their coverage of the ANZ Championship and Australian Diamonds test matches.

Liz Ellis moved to the Nine Network when it picked up the rights to the Suncorp Super Netball league, and became a regular panellist on the network's weekly Sports Sunday program.

In 2023, Liz Ellis appeared as a contestant in the ninth season of the Australian edition of I'm a Celebrity.

Liz Ellis began appearing regularly on Network 10's The Project as a panelist in 2023.

In October 2023, Network 10 announced at their 2024 upfronts that Liz Ellis was set to host a revival of the sports entertainment competition show Gladiators Australia in 2024, alongside Beau Ryan.

On 31 March 2011, Liz Ellis announced that she was pregnant.

On 21 October 2015, Liz Ellis announced on "The Project" that after several rounds of IVF and three miscarriages, she was pregnant with her second child.

Liz Ellis wrote a book in 2018 titled "If at First You Don't Conceive", detailing her experiences with her troubles having children.

In May 2024, Liz Ellis was appointed Chair of the Netball Australia Board.

Liz Ellis was inducted to the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in 2006.