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Margaret Caldow
OAM BEM
Personal information
Full name Margaret Elaine Caldow[1][2] (née Jackson)
Born (1941-11-28) 28 November 1941 (age 82)
Hobart, Tasmania[3][4][5]
Netball career
Playing position(s): GA
Years Club team(s) Apps
1960s–1970s Melbourne Blues[3][6]
1961–1979 Victoria
Years National team(s) Caps
1963–1979 Australia 27
Coaching career
Years Team(s)
1991–1995 Victorian Institute of Sport
2002–2003 Melbourne Kestrels
2004–2007 England
Medal record
Representing  Australia
World Netball Championships
Gold medal – first place 1963 Eastbourne Team
Gold medal – first place 1975 Auckland Team
Gold medal – first place 1979 Port of Spain Team

Margaret Elaine Caldow OAM BEM (born 28 November 1941), also known as Marg Caldow, is a former Australia netball international and a former England head coach. She represented Australia at the 1963, 1975 and the 1979 World Netball Championships, winning three gold medals. She captained Australia at the 1975 and 1979 tournaments. Between 2004 and 2007, Caldow served as head coach of England. She was the England head coach at both the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2007 World Netball Championships. Between 2013 and 2018, Caldow served as Lisa Alexander's assistant with Australia. In 1978 Caldow was awarded the British Empire Medal and in 2009 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.

Early life

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Born in Tasmania, Caldow moved to Melbourne in 1957. In her youth, as Margaret Jackson, she represented both Tasmania and Victoria in track and field athletics and netball. However, in 1960 she decided to concentrate on netball.[3][6][7][8]

Playing career

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Victoria

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Between 1961 and 1979, Caldow played for Victoria in the Australian National Netball Championships. She captained the team for eight years. In 2000, together with Sharelle McMahon, Wilma Shakespear, Joyce Brown, Shelley O'Donnell and Simone McKinnis, Caldow was named in Netball Victoria's Team of the Century. The Victorian Netball League's Championship MVP award is named the Margaret Caldow Trophy after Caldow.[3][5][6]

Australia

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Between 1963 and 1979, Caldow made 27 senior appearances for Australia. She had previously represented Australia at schoolgirl level. She played for Australia at the 1963, 1975 and the 1979 World Netball Championships, winning three gold medals. She captained Australia at the 1975 and 1979 tournaments.[3][5][6][9] In 2008, Caldow was inducted into the Australian Netball Hall of Fame.[10][11]

Tournaments Place
1963 World Netball Championships[12][13][14][15] 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1975 World Netball Championships[16] 1st place, gold medalist(s)
1979 World Netball Championships[17] 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Coaching career

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Victorian Institute of Sport

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Between 1991 and 1995, Caldow served as head netball coach at the Victorian Institute of Sport, mentoring among others, Sharelle McMahon.[3][18][19][20]

Melbourne Kestrels

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Between 2002 and 2003, Caldow served as head coach of Melbourne Kestrels in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy league.[3][19][21]

England

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Between 2004 and 2007, Caldow served as head coach of England. She was the England head coach at both the 2006 Commonwealth Games and the 2007 World Netball Championships.[22][23][24][25][26] Caldow was credited with mentoring Louisa Brownfield, Joanne Harten, Rachel Dunn and Pamela Cookey. On 13 May 2007 she also guided England to a 50–45 win against New Zealand. At the time, New Zealand were the reigning World and Commonwealth champions. It was also England's first win over New Zealand in thirty two years.[27][28][29][30]

Tournaments Place
2006 Commonwealth Games[31] 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
2007 World Netball Championships[32] 4th

Australia

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Caldow has also been a selector, assistant coach and specialist coach with Australia. She became a national selector in 1981. Between 1984 and 1985 she was an assistant coach at the Australian Institute of Sport. She was also an assistant coach with Australia at the 1987 World Netball Championships.[3][5][33][34][35] Between 2013 and 2018, Caldow served as Lisa Alexander's assistant/shooting specialist. During this time, she was a member of Australia's coaching team at the 2015 Netball World Cup and at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games.[4][18][36][37]

Honours

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Player

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Australia

Individual awards

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Year Award
1978 British Empire Medal[38]
1985 Sport Australia Hall of Fame[3]
1995 Netball Australia Service Award
2000 Netball Victoria Hall of Fame[39]
2000 Australian Sports Medal
2002 Netball Victoria Life Membership[1]
2008 Australian Netball Hall of Fame[10][11]
2009 Medal of the Order of Australia[2]
2019 Netball Tasmania Hall of Fame[8][40]

Source:[5]

Bibliography

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Wilma Shakespear, Margaret Caldow: Netball:Steps to Success (1979)

References

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  2. ^ a b "The Queen's Birthday 2009 Honours List". Government House of The Commonwealth of Australia. Archived from the original on 20 October 2018. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
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  8. ^ a b "Athlete Inductees". tas.netball.com.au. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
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  10. ^ a b "Australian Netball Hall of Fame". netball.asn.au. Archived from the original on 28 March 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.
  11. ^ a b "2008 Annual Report - Netball Australia" (PDF). netball.com.au. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  12. ^ "Women Netball I World Championship 1963 Eastbourne". todor66.com. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  13. ^ "1963 1st World Tournament, Eastbourne, August". ournetballhistory.org.uk. Retrieved 29 January 2021.
  14. ^ "Australian Netball Hall of Fame - Marg Caldow". www.youtube.com. 26 November 2015. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  15. ^ "1963 Australian Netball Team – Sport Australia Hall of Fame". sahof.org.au. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  16. ^ "Women Netball IV World Championship 1975 Auckland". todor66.com. Retrieved 27 February 2020.
  17. ^ "Women Netball V World Championship 1979 Port of Spain". www.todor66.com. Retrieved 26 February 2020.
  18. ^ a b "Diamonds add sparkle to coaching support staff". womensportreport.com. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  19. ^ a b "New coach aims to improve Kestrels' form". www.theage.com.au. 9 October 2002. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  20. ^ "Sharelle a sharp shooter who flew the flag for Australia". sahof.org.au. 9 October 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  21. ^ "New look for 2003". www.abc.net.au. 22 April 2003. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  22. ^ "Netball: English netballers looking to rebound". www.nzherald.co.nz. 1 March 2005. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
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  27. ^ "England stun world champions NZ". news.bbc.co.uk. 13 May 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  28. ^ "Stop Press: England stun World Champions 50–45". www.womensportreport.com. 13 May 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  29. ^ "Netball: England out of the shadows for World Championship". www.nzherald.co.nz. 6 November 2007. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  30. ^ "English netball has Australian and New Zealand coaches to thank for recovery". www.theguardian.com. 31 January 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
  31. ^ "18th Commonwealth Games - Day 11: Netball". www.gettyimages.ae. 26 March 2006. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  32. ^ "Netball: England book semifinal spot". www.nzherald.co.nz. 15 November 2007. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  33. ^ "AIS Netball Program". Clearinghouse for Sport. Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 13 March 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  34. ^ "1984 AIS Netball Program". Clearinghouse for Sport. Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 9 October 2020. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  35. ^ "1985 AIS Netball Program". Clearinghouse for Sport. Australian Sports Commission. Archived from the original on 24 March 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  36. ^ "Netball World Cup Congratulations". www.joanneryan.com.au. 15 August 2015. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  37. ^ "Margaret Caldow ends coaching role with Diamonds". diamonds.netball.com.au. 6 June 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2021.
  38. ^ Australia listing:"No. 47419". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 1977. pp. 35–40.
  39. ^ "Hall of Fame". vic.netball.com.au. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
  40. ^ "Tasmanian Netball Hall of Fame Inductees 2019". tas.netball.com.au. 3 September 2019. Retrieved 5 February 2021.
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