Lisa has been a winning high-performance coach for the past thirty years.
Formerly the Australian Diamonds Head Coach for 10 years, boasting an impressive 82% winning rate. Lisa sat on the Victorian Institute of Sport Board as the Performance and Coaching Expert for 3 years and was most recently living and working in London as Performance Director and Under 21 Head Coach of the London Pulse Netball Club in the Top Domestic League in the UK.
Lisa is currently working as a High-Performance Coach Consultant in her own business.
Lisa was awarded the Order of Australia medal, AM, on Australia Day 2021 for her service and leadership to elite Netball in Australia.
A Secondary Physical Education and Mathematics Teacher by profession, her CV is varied and eclectic, with stints as a Lecturer of Undergraduate Physical Education students, a consultant in High Performance and a Coach of Head Coaches, to the very pinnacle of International High Performance Sport as the former Head Coach of the Number One ranked Australian Diamonds Netball Team.
During Lisa’s time at the helm, she coached 102 test matches, 2014 Commonwealth Games Gold medallists, 2015 World Champions, 8 times Constellation Cup Winners, and 5 times Quad Series Winners.
During the year 2014, the Lisa Alexander-coached Australian Diamonds won 100% of their 13 test matches and had a winning streak of 19 matches across the years of 2013 to 2015. Lisa was awarded the prestigious AIS Australian Coach of the Year in 2014.
However, she attributes this success to the talent and hunger of her Australian Diamonds Squad and their ability to work on team development and culture, beginning with the now famous trademark of “Sisters in Arms”. Sustained success and looking after the future were always the vision and direction for Lisa when coaching the Australian Diamonds. According to Lisa, it is an honour and a privilege to coach your country!
Lisa has always sought to educate her community along the journey, and she feels passionately about this responsibility. She has coached the entire spectrum of netball as a sport from Under 10's right through to school teams and regional teams to state teams and the Australian 21/U Team and the Australian Diamonds.
It has been a long journey to the top of the sport of netball, with many bends and twists along the way. Lisa has taken up the challenges with great gusto and with a big sprinkling of common sense. She is guided by her unending quest for excellence and learning more about the world she inhabits.
Lisa is an exceptional leader who can create a winning and success-driven environment through knowing the athletes in her care exceptionally well, person first, athlete second. She is driven by the philosophy that there is always room for improvement and that “we before me” is a timeless principle of all team sports.
Lisa’s personal trademark is “Making a Difference” and “Be Positive”.
