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Carissa Tombs
OAM
Personal information
Full name Carissa Leanne Tombs (née Dalwood)
Born (1969-11-29) 29 November 1969 (age 54)
New South Wales, Australia
Height 173 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Spouse Richard Tombs
Netball career
Playing position(s): C
Years Club team(s) Apps
1986–1987 Australian Institute of Sport
1989 Sydney Tigers
1990 Sydney Pulsar Panthers
1991 Sydney Pulsars
1993–1995 Sydney Electricity
1996 Sydney Energy
1997–1999 Sydney Sandpipers 25
Years National team(s) Caps
1989–1999 Australia 97
Medal record
Representing  Australia
Netball World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1991 Australia Netball
Gold medal – first place 1995 England Netball
Gold medal – first place 1999 New Zealand Netball
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1998 Malaysia Netball

Carissa Leanne Tombs OAM (née Dalwood, born 19 November 1969) is a former Australian netball player. Having played for Australia 91 times, she is her country's seventh-most capped international. She won three World Netball Championships, in 1991, 1995 and 1999, and one Commonwealth Games gold medal in 1998.

Personal life[edit]

Tombs was born Carissa Dalwood on 19 November 1969 in New South Wales.[1]

Her husband is former Wallaby Richard Tombs, with whom she has three daughters.[2] One of her daughters, Latika, has been a training partner with Giants Netball.[3]

Netball career[edit]

Club and interstate[edit]

The AIS team in 1986

In state-league competition in New South Wales, Tombs played for Manly-Warringah.[4] She began her top-level netball career at 16 with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) team,[5] with whom she played in the Superleague in 1986 and 1987, winning the grand final in 1986.

After leaving the AIS, she played for Sydney-based teams in the Superleague with various nicknames (the Tigers, Pulsar Panthers, Pulsars, Electricity, and Energy) from 1989 to 1991 and 1993 to 1996.[6] She won grand finals with the Tigers in 1989, the Pulsars in 1991 and the Electricity in 1995.

Following the replacement of the Superleague with the National Netball League, she played for the Sydney Sandpipers in the new league from 1997 to 1999. She played 25 games for the team and served as captain in 1999.[7][8]

In interstate netball, she represented New South Wales. She first appeared for the under-21 side at the age of 16 in 1986,[9] before playing for the under-19 side and finally the seniors, whom she helped to seven consecutive National Netball Championship wins from 1988 to 1994. She captained the team to the title in the last year of that streak.[10]

International[edit]

Tombs was a part of the Australian under-21 side which won the inaugural World Youth Netball Championships in Canberra in 1988. At the senior level, she made her debut for Australia against New Zealand in Auckland on 26 April 1989.[1] She was a regular member of the Australian squad over the next decade, playing 91 times before her retirement in October 1999.[10]

She played in three successful World Netball Championships campaigns for Australia, in 1991, 1995 and 1999, and one successful Commonwealth Games campaign, in 1998. She faced a particular challenge in a knee reconstruction which resulted from an injury sustained in the 1997 National League season, after which she returned to win the 1998 Commonwealth Games gold and 1999 World Championships title.[11] a At the World Games, she won a silver medal in 1989 and a gold medal in the following Games in 1993.[12][13] As of 2023, she is the most capped centre in the Australian national team's history, and the seventh-most capped player overall.

Honours and achievements[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Carissa Tombs OAM". Australia national netball team. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  2. ^ Geddes, Jon (17 October 2019). "New challenge for champion sports couple Richard and Carissa Tombs". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  3. ^ Pearce, Linda (23 May 2019). "Next generation of daughters about to boom in Super Netball". The Age. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  4. ^ "The AIS player squad". The Canberra Times. 11 April 1986. p. 2. Retrieved 10 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ Scholes, Gary (15 March 1986). "AIS has tough start to netball season". The Canberra Times. p. 10. Retrieved 9 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. ^ "Carissa Tombs OAM (nee Dalwood)". Swifts Insider. Vol. 7, no. 3. 31 March 2014. p. 14. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Netball NSW – Annual Report 2007" (PDF). Netball New South Wales. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 September 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  8. ^ "Sydney Sandpipers (1997–2003)". Netball New South Wales. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  9. ^ Scholes, Gary (16 November 1988). "Dalwood has eyes on national spot". The Canberra Times. p. 48. Retrieved 10 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  10. ^ a b "Carissa Tombs nee Dalwood OAM". NSW Hall of Champions. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  11. ^ a b c "Netball NSW Hall of Fame Inductee: Carissa Tombs OAM". Netball New South Wales. 4 December 2005. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  12. ^ Krastev, Todor (7 September 2018). "Women Netball World Games 1989 Karlsruhe (FRG) 24-27.07- Winner New Zealand". Todor 66. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  13. ^ Krastev, Todor (7 September 2018). "Women Netball World Games 1993 The Hague (NED) - Winner Australia". Todor 66. Retrieved 10 August 2023.
  14. ^ "Miss Carissa Leanne DALWOOD". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  15. ^ "Mrs Carissa TOMBS, OAM". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  16. ^ Geddes, Jon (4 November 2014). "Hall of Fame honour for our world champ Carissa". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
  17. ^ "Hall of Fame". Netball Australia. Retrieved 9 August 2023.
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