 Wilma Shakespear coaching the AIS netball team in 1986 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Wilma Joyce Shakespear (née Ritchie) | |||||||||||||
| Born |
4 March 1943 Victoria, Australia | |||||||||||||
| Spouse | Peter Shakespear | |||||||||||||
| Netball career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | National team(s) | Caps | ||||||||||||
| 1963 | Australia | 7 | ||||||||||||
| Coaching career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team(s) | |||||||||||||
| 197x–197x | Australia | |||||||||||||
| 1981–1990 | Australian Institute of Sport | |||||||||||||
| 198x–198x | Australia | |||||||||||||
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Wilma Joyce Shakespear AM (born 4 March 1943), previously known as Wilma Ritchie, is a former Australia netball international, Australia head coach and sports administrator. As a player, she represented Australia at the 1963 World Netball Championships, winning a gold medal. Shakespear coached Australia at the 1971, 1979 and 1987 World Netball Championships and at the 1989 World Games. Shakespear also served as head netball coach at the Australian Institute of Sport.[1][2][3] Shakespear is married to Peter Shakespear, a former Australian rower.[4][5]
In the 1992 Australia Day Honours, Shakespear was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) "for service to sports, particularly netball."[6][7] As a sports administrator she was the founding director of both the Queensland Academy of Sport and the English Institute of Sport. In 2010 she was inducted into the Australian Netball Hall of Fame.[8]
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- ^ "Australia Day Honours". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 25 January 1992. p. 10. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ^ "2011 Annual Report – Netball Australia" (PDF). netball.com.au. Retrieved 26 August 2020.