Netball's Festival of Stars
Founded2009
Inaugural season2009
Owner(s)ANZ Championship
No. of teams2
CountryAustralia
TV partner(s)Network 10
ONE HD
Sponsor(s)ANZ
Holden
Mars[1][2]

Netball's Festival of Stars was a series of celebrity netball matches organised by Network Ten and the ANZ Championship. It featured two teams representing two Australian charities, Beyond Blue and the National Breast Cancer Foundation. Matches featured two halves of fifteen minutes and were played before an ANZ Championship regular season match.

2009

The inaugural Festival of Stars was hosted at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre on 21 June 2009, before the 2009 ANZ Championship Round 12 match between New South Wales Swifts and West Coast Fever. Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by Network 10 commentators, Luke Darcy and Liz Ellis, respectively. Team Beyond Blue, coached by Julie Fitzgerald, won the game following a penalty shoot-out between the two captains. The match was viewed by a television audience of 345,164 viewers.[3][4]

Match summary
20 May 2012 Team Beyond BluevTeam NBCF    Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre Network 10
Teams
Head Coach: Julie Fitzgerald

Team:
Luke Darcy (c)
Wil Anderson
Chris Grant
Melissa Wu
C Shelley O'Donnell
Andy Maher
Kirk Pengilly

 Head Coach: Matthew Elliott

Team:
Liz Ellis (c)
John Eales
Adam Spencer
Layne Beachley
Marianne McCormick
Nathan Hindmarsh
Bill Woods

Substitutes:
C Ashlee Weir for McCormick

2010

The second Festival of Stars was hosted at Hisense Arena on 6 June 2010, before the 2010 ANZ Championship Round 12 match between Melbourne Vixens and Adelaide Thunderbirds. Once again Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by Luke Darcy and Liz Ellis, respectively. The match featured two fifteen minute halves and was umpired by Natalie Medhurst and Wendy Fleming, a former Australia under-21 international. ANZ donated $1,000 for the first goal scored in each half and $100 for every other goal scored in the match. This raised $20,000 for the two charities.[2][4][5][6]

Match summary
6 June 2010 Mars Team Beyond Blue11–9Holden Cruze Team NBCF    Hisense Arena
Umpires:
Natalie Medhurst
Wendy Fleming		 Network 10
Scoring by half: 4-3, 7-6
Luke Darcy
Dave Hughes
Rebecca Twigley		 Ryan Moloney
Adam Spencer
Caitlin Thwaites
Teams

Starting 7:
GS Luke Darcy (c)
GA Dave Hughes
WA Rebecca Twigley[7]
C Shelley O'Donnell
WD Mieke Buchan
GD Anthony Lehmann
GK James Tomkins

Changes:
Twigley to GA
Hughes to WD

Starting 7:
GS Ryan Moloney
GA Adam Spencer
WA Brigitte Duclos
C Lydia Lassila
WD Adam Swanson
GD Glenn Archer
GK Liz Ellis (c)

Changes:
Ellis to WD
Archer to GD
Swanson to GK
Moloney to WD
Ellis to GK

Substitutes:
GS Caitlin Thwaites for Swanson

2011

The third Festival of Stars was hosted at Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre on 20 March 2011, before the 2011 ANZ Championship Round 6 match between New South Wales Swifts and Queensland Firebirds. Team Beyond Blue and Team NBCF were captained by comedians, Charlie Pickering and Adam Spencer, respectively. This was the third time Spencer played for Team NBCF. The show was hosted by Kelli Underwood and Liz Ellis with Sue Gaudion as the courtside expert. The event raised $13,800 for the two charities. Kerri Pottharst's nine goal tally helped Team NBCF win the match for the first time. Other notable performers included Iron Men Shannon Eckstein, who scored seven goals for Team Beyond Blue, and Matt Poole, who was named Player of the Match.[8][9]

Match summary
20 March 2011 Holden Barina Spark Team NBCF10–9Team Beyond Blue    Sydney Olympic Park Sports Centre
Umpires:
Shelley O'Donnell
Alison Broadbent		 Network 10
Scoring by half: 4-3, 6-6
Kerri Pottharst Goals scored 9
Adam Spencer Goals scored 1		 Shannon Eckstein Goals scored 7
Charlie Pickering Goals scored 2
Teams

Starting 7:
GS Kerri Pottharst
GA Adam Spencer (c)
WA Natarsha Belling
C Laura Dundovic
WD Guy Leech
GD Dean Gladstone
GK Matt Poole

Starting 7:
GS Shannon Eckstein
GA Charlie Pickering (c)
WA Summer Burke
C James Kerley
WD Gus Worland
GD Andrew Reid
GK Charlotte Dawson

References

  1. ↑ "ANZ Championship nets Mars sponsorship". www.sportspromedia.com. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 "MARS signs up with ANZ Championship on eve of 2010 season". www.netballnz.co.nz. 10 March 2010. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  3. ↑ "2009 Annual Report - Netball Australia" (PDF). netball.com.au. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
  4. 1 2 "Netball's Festival of Stars". www.anz-championship.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  5. ↑ "Herald Sun snaps Netball's Festival of Stars training session". www.netball.asn.au. 4 June 2010. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  6. ↑ "Netball Australia Annual Report 2010" (PDF). Netball Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 October 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "Rebecca Judd". www.dailytelegraph.com.au. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "Stars raise $13,800 in ANZ Championship's annual celebrity charity netball match". www.netballnz.co.nz. 21 March 2011. Retrieved 21 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "2011 Annual Report – Netball Australia" (PDF). netball.com.au. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
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