Janine Ilitch

Janine Ilitch
Personal information
Full name	Janine Claire Ilitch (née Lynch)
Born	27 January 1972 (age 52); Mordialloc
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
University	Monash University
Netball career
	Playing position(s): GD, GK
Years	Club team(s)
	Melbourne Phoenix
	Melbourne Kestrels
Years	National team(s)
1995–2006	Australia
Medal record
Representing Australia
Commonwealth Games
Netball World Championships
	Last updated: 2009-03-20

Janine Claire Ilitch (née Lynch; born 27 January 1972)^[1] is an Australian netball player. She was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder in 1993.

Ilitch was born in Mordialloc, Victoria. She has been a frequent member of the Australian national team, playing in her usual positions of goal keeper and goal defence, since being first selected in 1995. Ilitch has also been a key member of the Melbourne Kestrels in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy ever since the competition's founding in 1997, and served a stint as captain in 2004.

After years of playing second-fiddle to accomplished defenders Kathryn Harby-Williams and Liz Ellis, Ilitch finally cracked the Australian starting-seven in November 2004, where her combination with Australian captain Ellis played a major role in Australia's series victory against New Zealand. This combination was never to reach its true potential, when Ilitch took the 2005 season off due to being pregnant with her second child,^[2] and Ellis withdrew from the Australian team with a knee injury upon Ilitch's return. Ilitch won a place in Australia's silver-winning Commonwealth games team in 2006. After playing limited games with the Melbourne Kestrels in the 2006 Commonwealth Bank Trophy season, Ilitch announced her retirement.

References

^ 2006 Melbourne Kestrels team profile Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2009-03-20.
^ Lyon, Karen (28 January 2006). "A working mother on the verge of more success". The Age. Retrieved 20 March 2009.

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[1] 2006 Melbourne Kestrels team profile Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2009-03-20.

[2] Lyon, Karen (28 January 2006). "A working mother on the verge of more success". The Age. Retrieved 20 March 2009.

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v t e Australia netball squad at the 1998 Commonwealth Games (1st place)
Players	Carissa Tombs Liz Ellis Jenny Borlase Janine Ilitch Kathryn Harby-Williams Nicole Cusack Rebecca Sanders Simone McKinnis Shelley O'Donnell Sarah Sutter Sharelle McMahon Vicki Wilson
Coaches	Jill McIntosh (head coach)

v t e Australia squad at the 1999 World Netball Championships (1st place)
Players	Jenny Borlase Carissa Dalwood Jacqui Delaney Liz Ellis Sharon Finnan Kathryn Harby Janine Ilitch Sharelle McMahon Shelley O'Donnell Rebecca Sanders Peta Squire Vicki Wilson (c)
Coaches	Jill McIntosh (head coach)

v t e Australia netball squad at the 2002 Commonwealth Games (1st place)
Players	Alexandra Hodge Alison Broadbent Catherine Cox Liz Ellis Eloise Southby Jacqui Delaney Janine Ilitch Kathryn Harby-Williams Nicole Richardson Peta Squire Rebecca Sanders Sharelle McMahon
Coaches	Jill McIntosh (head coach)

v t e Australia squad at the 2003 World Netball Championships (2nd place)
Players	Alison Broadbent Natasha Chokljat Catherine Cox Liz Ellis (vc) Kathryn Harby-Williams (c) Janine Ilitch Sharelle McMahon Cynna Neele Nicole Richardson Rebecca Sanders Peta Squire Eloise Southby
Coaches	Jill McIntosh (head coach)

v t e Australia netball squad at the 2006 Commonwealth Games (2nd place)
Players	Natalie Avellino Alison Broadbent Bianca Chatfield Catherine Cox (vc) Megan Dehn Susan Fuhrmann Selina Gilsenan Janine Ilitch Sharelle McMahon (c) Susan Pratley Jessica Shynn Natalie von Bertouch
Coaches	Norma Plummer