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Julie Prendergast

Personal information
Full name	Julie Corletto (née Prendergast)
Born	(1986-10-31) 31 October 1986 (age 38)
Height	184 cm (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
School	Doncaster Secondary College Carey Grammar
Children	Cooper (born 2016), Zara (born 2018), Harvey (born 2021)
Relatives	Ian Prendergast (AFL player)
Netball career
Playing position(s): GD, WD, GK
Years	Club team(s)	Apps
2015	New South Wales Swifts	35
2012–2014	Northern Mystics	13
2008–2012	Melbourne Vixens	40
2007	Melbourne Kestrels
2002–06	Melbourne Phoenix
Years	National team(s)	Caps
2005–present	Australian national team	52
2003–04	Australia U21
Medal record Representing  Australia Netball World Championships 2007 Auckland Netball 2011 Singapore Netball 2015 Australia Netball Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow Netball
Last updated: 2009-03-27

Julie Prendergast (born 31 October 1986) is an Australian international netball player. She played for the Australian Diamonds and NSW Swifts but has now retired. She usually played in the positions of goal defence and wing defence. Corletto is the younger sister of former AFL footballer Ian Prendergast and former Victorian State netballer Karen Dennis, (née Prendergast).

Career

Corletto started playing netball at aged 10 in her home town of Kerang. She made her Commonwealth Bank Trophy debut at the age of 16 for the Melbourne Phoenix, where her style of defence saw her named Netball Australia's best new talent. She was selected in the Australian open squad at the age of 17. In 2005 she captained the Australian U-21 team to a bronze medal at the World Youth Championships, while on the comeback trail from a stress fracture in her foot.

In 2007 Corletto was recruited from the Melbourne Phoenix to cross-town rivals, Melbourne Kestrels. Also that year, she was named in the Australian national team to tour England in a tri-series. However, after injuring her ankle in the first minutes of the season opener, the local derby between Phoenix and Kestrels, she was forced to pull out, with Melbourne Kestrels teammate Rebecca Bulley called up in her place. But a few months later Corletto went on to make a debut for Australia against Jamaica, and played goal defence during a subsequent Australian series win against New Zealand. In November 2007, she won her first ever world championship title, as the youngest member of the victorious Australian team.

In 2008 Corletto signed with the Melbourne Vixens to play in the new trans-Tasman ANZ Championship. She again played for the Vixens in the 2009. She capped off the 2009 season with the ANZ Championship premiership-winning Vixens, coming runner-up in the Vixens' Best & Fairest, and being awarded the Liz Ellis Diamond, the highest and most prestigious individual honour in Australian netball, awarded to the player that has polled the most votes across the ANZ Championship and Australian Diamonds seasons. Corletto's 2010 season was interrupted with her having to undergo knee surgery on both knees, thus missing out in representing Australia in the Commonwealth Games.

Corletto made up for her misfortunes in 2011, returning to the Vixens team during round 5 of the 2011 season, and being named in the Diamonds Squad to represent Australia in the World Netball Championships. At the end of the 2012 ANZ championship season, she announced she was leaving the Vixens to sign with the New Zealand team the Northern Mystics in 2013 to join husband Daryl, who had re-signed with the New Zealand Breakers. She played for the Northern Mystics in 2013 and 2014. Corletto played in the Australian Netball Diamonds 2014 Commonwealth Games team that won the gold medal.

In 2015, Corletto was part of the New South Wales Swifts team that lost in the ANZ Championship finals to the Queensland Firebirds. She also won the gold medal playing for the Diamonds at 2015 Netball World Cup, playing with injured knees and a broken foot. Corletto subsequently announced her retirement from international netball after the tournament.

ANZ Championship accolades

• 2011 Melbourne Vixens Coaches Award

Netball career facts

• 2015 World Championship gold medal
• 2014 Australian Commonwealth Games Netball Team
• 2011 World Championship gold medal (extra-time)
• 2009 Liz Ellis Diamond winner
• 2009 ANZ Championship victory with Melbourne Vixens
• 2007 World Championship gold medal
• 2005 Commonwealth Bank Trophy winner with Melbourne Phoenix
• 2004 Commonwealth Bank Trophy Best New Talent

Personal life

Julie has three Children, Cooper (2016), Zara (2018) & Harvey (2021)

References

1. ^ "Julie Prendergast". netball.com.au. Netball Australia. Archived from the original on 27 October 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2015.
2. Rebecca Williams "Julie Corletto walks out on Melbourne Vixens to join Northern Mystics" Melbourne, 20 August 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012.
3. Dana Johannsen "Netball: Sport's courting couple reunited as Mystic's new signing hits town" New Zealand, 28 August 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2012.

External links

• 2009 Melbourne Vixens profile. Retrieved on 2009-03-27.

• 1986 births
• Living people
• People educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School
• Melbourne Vixens players
• Melbourne Kestrels players
• Melbourne Phoenix players
• New South Wales Swifts players
• Northern Mystics players
• Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
• Netball players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
• Commonwealth Games medallists in netball
• People from Kerang
• Australia international netball players
• Victorian Netball League players
• Netball players from Victoria (state)
• Australian expatriate netball people in New Zealand
• 2007 World Netball Championships players
• 2011 World Netball Championships players
• 2015 Netball World Cup players
• Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games