Nicole Richardson
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
Representing  Australia
| ||
| Women's Softball | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
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1996 Atlanta | Team |
| Netball | ||
| Commonwealth Games | ||
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2002 Manchester | Team |
Nicole Richardson (born 26 June 1970) is an Australian former netball and softball player and current netball coach.
As a softballer, Richardson won a bronze medal for Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She also represented Australia in netball, winning gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Richardson played both centre and wing defence. She played seven seasons with the Melbourne Kestrels in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy. She was captain of the team from 2000 until 2003. She retired from netball in 2003. Since retiring from netball, Richardson has forged a distinctive coaching career. She coached Victorian representative teams at under 17, under 19 and under 21 levels, before becoming head coach of the Netball Australia Centre for Excellence team. During the mid-to-late 2010's, she was assistant coach at Super Netball teams West Coast Fever and Collingwood Magpies, and in 2021 she was appointed head coach of the Magpies.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ "Richardson appointed head coach". Collingwood Magpies. 20 November 2020. Archived from the original on 26 November 2020.
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- 1970 births
- Living people
- Australian softball players
- Olympic softball players for Australia
- Softball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Australia
- Sportswomen from Victoria (state)
- Olympic medalists in softball
- Sportspeople from Melbourne
- Netball players from Melbourne
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Australian netball players
- Australia international netball players
- Commonwealth Games medallists in netball
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Australia
- Netball players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- Melbourne Kestrels players
- Australian Institute of Sport netball players
- Esso/Mobil Superleague players
- Australian netball coaches
- Suncorp Super Netball coaches
- 2003 World Netball Championships players
- Medallists at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
- 21st-century Australian sportswomen