West Coast Fever Reserves

West Coast Fever Reserves
Founded2008
Based inPerth
RegionsWestern Australia
Home venueGold Netball Centre, Perth
Head coachGuy Keane
Premierships2 (2017, 2025)
LeagueSuper Netball Reserves
Websitewa.netball.com.au
Playing dress

The West Coast Fever Reserves, formerly the Western Sting, are an Australian netball team that represents Netball Western Australia in the Super Netball Reserves competition. The Fever Reserves is the reserve team of Suncorp Super Netball club, West Coast Fever. The team is made up of selected stand-out players from GIG WANL, West Coast Fever training partners and some contracted West Coast Fever players.

Under the Sting name, the team were the champions of the Australian Netball League in 2017. The Fever Reserves also won the inaugural Super Netball Reserves premiership in 2025.

History

Australian Netball League

In 2008, Netball Western Australia entered a team in the Australian Netball League. They were a foundation member of the league.[1] In 2011 the team began playing under the Western Sting name.[2] Between 2013 and 2014 future West Coast Fever head coach, Stacey Marinkovich (née Rosman) served as the Sting head coach.[3] In 2017, with a squad led by WANL superstar Jessica Eales, which included future Diamonds Sunday Aryang and Sophie Garbin, as well as future Fever players Emma Cosh, Olivia Lewis, Lindal Rohde, Annika Lee-Jones and Kaylia Stanton, the Sting reached their first ANL Grand Final after five bronze-medal finishes in the preceding six seasons. The match was played in front of a home crowd at the State Netball Centre against the Victorian Fury. The Sting led most of the match, including the entire second half, winning 63–47 and claiming their first ANL title.[4][5]

Super Netball Reserves

In 2025, the Australian Netball Championships (ANC) was rebranded to the Super Netball Reserves by Netball Australia. This new format competition ran alongside the Suncorp Super Netball season, with Fever Reserves games taking place alongside the West Coast Fever, usually the day before or after an SSN match at a different venue, or pre- or post-SSN match at the same venue. Led by Fever 11th player Zoe Cransberg, and featuring Fever training partners Caitlyn Brown, Kelsey Browne and Sloan Burton, the Fever Reserves won all seven home-and-away season matches, qualifying straight into the Grand Final against the second-place finishing Melbourne Mavericks Reserves. They led at every break by at least 7 goals, cruising to a 67–57 win for the inaugural SN Reserves premiership. 2025 Australian World Youth Cup representative Jasmah Haywood was awarded the Player of the Grand Final after scoring 57/64 goals (89% accuracy).

Grand finals

Season Winners Score Runners up Venue
2017[4][5] Western Sting 63–47 Victorian Fury State Netball Centre, Perth
2025 West Coast Fever Reserves 67–57 Melbourne Mavericks Reserves Waverley Netball Centre, Melbourne

Notable players

2025 squad

2025 West Coast Fever Reserves roster
Players Coaches
Name Pos DOB Height Club Nat Caps
Caitlyn Brown* (vc) GD, GK – Western Roar 8
Kelsey Browne* C, WA – Peel Lightning 3
Sloan Burton* GA, GS – Comets 8
Zoe Cransberg* (c) C, WD, WA – Western Roar 6
Kate Cunningham GK, GD – Western Roar 6
Sophie Eastaugh WA, GA, GS – Fremantle Sharks 8
Jasmah Haywood GS, GA – Comets 8
Scarlet Jauncey GD, GK – West Coast Warriors 8
Sophia Lamers GS, GA – Western Roar 6
Jessica Repacholi WD, C – Fremantle Sharks 7
Indiana Squires WD, GD – Fremantle Sharks 8
Clara Wigley C, WA, WD – Comets 6
Teagan Begovic (TRP) GA, WA – Western Roar 2
Eva Petkovic (TRP) GK, GD – Western Roar 2
Charisse Rond (TRP) C, WA – Western Roar 4
Olivia Wilkinson* (TRP) GS, GA – West Coast Fever 3
Fran Williams* (TRP) GD, GK – West Coast Fever 2
Head coach
  • Guy Keane
Assistant coach
  • Karly Guadagnin


Notes
  • (c) – Captain
  • (cc) – Co-captain
  • (vc) – Vice-captain
  • – Injury / maternity leave
  • (TRP) – Temporary Replacement Player
Player profiles: Team website Last updated: 13 November 2025

Notes:

  1. Olivia Wilkinson and Fran Williams are contracted WCF athletes, who are released after SSN games to play in the SN Reserves if required.
  2. Zoe Cransberg is the contracted 11th player for WCF.
  3. Caitlyn Brown, Kelsey Browne and Sloan Burton are WCF training partners.

Source:[6][7]

Internationals

 Australia
 New Zealand

 England

West Coast Fever

Source:[2][3][8][9][10][11]

League MVP

Season Player
2014 Ashleigh Brazill
2017 Sophie Garbin

Source:[12]

Head coaches

Coach Years
Michelle Wilkins[8] 2009–2010
Jon Fletcher[2][9] 2011–2012
Stacey Rosman[3] 2013–2014
Michelle Wilkins[13][14][11] 2015–2017
Andrea McCulloch[15] 2018
Karly Guadagnin[16] 2019
Tasha Richards[17] 2020
Belinda Reynolds 2021–2022
Guy Keane 2023–present

Premierships

References

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  3. ^ a b c "2013 Netball Western Australia Annual Report" (PDF). Netball Western Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 October 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  4. ^ a b "2017 Netball Western Australia Annual Report" (PDF). wa.netball.com.au. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  5. ^ a b "Fury runners-up in intense ANL finals weekend". vic.netball.com.au. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  6. ^ "West Coast Fever Reserves squad revealed". West Coast Fever. Retrieved 2025-11-13.
  7. ^ "West Coast Fever Reserves". Netball WA. 2023-09-14. Retrieved 2025-11-13.
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  9. ^ a b "2012 Netball Western Australia Annual Report" (PDF). Netball Western Australia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Shimmin creates history with ANL MVP award". womensportreport.com. 26 July 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Sting Secure ANL Finals Berth". wais.org.au. 14 June 2016. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  12. ^ "Australian Netball League". netball.com.au. Archived from the original on 24 January 2020. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
  13. ^ "Western Sting crowned ANL champions". netball.com.au. 9 April 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
  14. ^ "Historic ANL Title for Western Sting". wais.org.au. 10 April 2017. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  15. ^ "2018 West Coast Fever Annual Report" (PDF). westcoastfever.com.au. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  16. ^ "Western Sting finalise coaching staff for 2019". netball.com.au. 10 December 2018. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  17. ^ "Tasha Richards appointed Western Sting Head Coach". westcoastfever.com.au. 24 January 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
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