Wilma Shakespear coaching the AIS netball team in 1986
Personal information
Full name
Wilma Joyce Shakespear(née Ritchie)
Born
(1943-03-04) 4 March 1943 (age 81) 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
Medal record
Representing Australia
World Netball Championships
1963 Eastbourne
Team
Wilma Joyce ShakespearAM (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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^"Inspiring Leader Interview with Wilma Shakespear". focussedfish.com. 28 May 2017. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
^"Australia Day Honours". Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995). 25 January 1992. p. 10. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
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