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Michelle den Dekker
OAM

Personal information

Full name

Michelle den Dekker

Born

23 March 1966 (age 58)

Netball career

Playing position(s): Defence

Years

National team(s)

Caps

1988-95

Australia

Coaching career

Years

Team(s)

Specialist defence Assistant coach
Australian Netball Diamonds

Medal record

Representing Australia

Netball World Championships
	1995 Birmingham	Netball
	1991 Sydney	Netball

Last updated: 2015-06-24

Michelle den Dekker OAM, also known as Michelle Fielke, is an Australian netballer from South Australia. den Dekker represented Australia in 84 tests between 1988 and 1995, including a record 71 as captain. She received the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 1992 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to sport.^[1]^[2]

Netball career

Life member of the Garville Netball Club from 1989 to 1995 and helping the club clinch five premierships in 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994 and 1995.^[3]^[4] In the national league, den Dekker was captain-coach of the Queensland Firebirds in 1997-98 before returning home to the now defunct Adelaide Ravens.^[5]

den Dekker made her Australian debut in 1985, and led Australian to two world championships as captain (1991 and 1995). Michelle played a total of 84 test matches for Australia between 1985 and 1995, including 71 as captain. As captain her team enjoyed a win loss ratio of 92% (65 wins, 6 losses).^[6]^[7]

den Dekker was voted as Adelaide's greatest netballer to have fronted for the Adelaide Thunderbirds or Adelaide Ravens.^[5] She was inducted into the Australian Netball Hall of Fame in 2009.^[1]

Coaching career

den Dekker OAM was appointed Head Coach of Netball Australia’s new Centre of Excellence in Canberra in April 2014.^[8]^[9]

den Dekker was the Diamonds Assistant coach for the Australian Netball Diamonds until August 2015 (the 2015 Netball World Cup). Currently still works as a consultant for Netball Australia as a Defence Specialist coach and manages her own Netball consultancy business working to develop our next generation of players and coaches in South Australia

Awards

Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in 1992^[7]
SA Great Award, for services to sport in South Australia in 1993.
Inducted into the Australian Netball Hall of Fame 2009^[7]
Inducted into the Inaugural South Australian Hall Of Fame 2010^[10]
Ambassador for the SA Sports Hall Of Fame alongside Legend Barrie Robran AM.
Inducted into Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2020.^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b w3admin. "#92 – MICHELLE DEN DEKKER OAM | Netball Australia". netball.com.au. Retrieved 19 January 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
^ "QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS ORDER OF AUSTRALIA". The Canberra Times. Vol. 66, no. 20, 875. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 8 June 1992. p. 4. Retrieved 24 July 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Our Honour List ~ Contax Netball Club". Contax.net.au. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ "Garville Netball Club - The Great Greys!". Garville.com.au. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Den Dekker is SA's greatest | Adelaide Now". Archived from the original on 21 November 2011.
^ "About Us". Michelledendekker.com.au. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c atosha. "Australian Netball Hall of Fame | Netball Australia". Netball.com.au. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ Michelle Den Dekker Appointed Head Coach Of Netball Australias New Centre Of Excellence In Canberra The Courier Mail ^{[dead link‍]}
^ bradg (19 December 2013). "den Dekker appointed Diamonds assistant coach | Netball Australia". Netball.com.au. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ "KPMG South Australian Sport Hall of Fame and Legends". Sportsa.org.au. 15 September 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
^ Colangelo, Anthony (4 December 2020). "Women's T20 side, Eales claim top honours at Sport Australia awards". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 December 2020.

External sources

Australia national netball team

Players

Tournaments

Netball World Cup	1963 1967 1971 1975 1979 1983 1987 1991 1995 1999 2003 2007 2011 2015 2019 2023
Commonwealth Games	1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Constellation Cup	2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2021 2022 2023 2024
Netball Quad Series/Nations Cup	2016 2017 (I) 2017 (II) 2018 (I) 2018 (II) 2019 2022 2023 2024
Fast5 Netball World Series	2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2018 2022 2023
World Games	1985 1989 1993

Series

England	2022 2024

Captains

Head coaches

v t e Australia squad at the 1991 World Netball Championships (1st place)
Players	Carissa Dalwood Keeley Devery Michelle Fielke (c) Sharon Finnan Roselee Jencke Jennifer Kennett Sue Kenny Simone McKinnis Shelley O'Donnell Catriona Wagg Vicki Wilson
Coaches	Joyce Brown

v t e Australia squad at the 1995 World Netball Championships (1st place)
Players	Jenny Borlase Shelley O'Donnell Carissa Dalwood Kath Harby Natalie Avellino Liz Ellis Vicki Wilson Sarah Sutter Nicole Cusack Marianne Murphy Michelle Fielke (c) Simone McKinnis
Coaches	Jill McIntosh (head coach)

v t e Australia squad at the 2015 Netball World Cup (1st place)
Players	Caitlin Bassett Erin Bell Rebecca Bulley Julie Corletto Laura Geitz (c) Kimberlee Green (vc) Paige Hadley Renae Ingles Sharni Layton Natalie Medhurst Kim Ravaillion Caitlin Thwaites
Coaches	Lisa Alexander (head coach) Margaret Caldow (assistant coach) Michelle den Dekker (assistant coach)

Adelaide Thunderbirds

Est. 1997 in Adelaide, South Australia

Premierships (4)

Seasons

Commonwealth Bank Trophy	1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007
ANZ Championship	2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Suncorp Super Netball	2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Home courts

Captains

Head coaches

Margaret Angove
Tania Obst
Jane Woodlands-Thompson
Michelle den Dekker
Dan Ryan
Tania Obst