Nicole Richardson

Nicole Richardson, born on 26 June 1970, is an Australian former netball and softball player and current netball coach. As a softballer she won a bronze medal for Australia at the 1996 Summer Olympics, and in netball she won gold at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, playing centre and wing defence. She played seven seasons with the Melbourne Kestrels in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy and captained the team from 2000 until 2003, retiring from netball in 2003. She has since coached Victorian representative teams at under-17, under-19 and under-21 levels, headed the Netball Australia Centre for Excellence team, assisted at West Coast Fever and Collingwood Magpies, and became head coach of the Magpies in 2021.