West Coast Fever Reserves


The West Coast Fever Reserves, formerly the Western Sting, are an Australian netball team that represents Netball Western Australia in the Super Netball Reserves competition. The Fever Reserves is the reserve team of Suncorp Super Netball club, West Coast Fever. The team is made up of selected stand-out players from GIG WANL, West Coast Fever training partners and some contracted West Coast Fever players.
Under the Sting name, the team were the champions of the Australian Netball League in 2017. The Fever Reserves also won the inaugural Super Netball Reserves premiership in 2025.

History

Australian Netball League

In 2008, Netball Western Australia entered a team in the Australian Netball League. They were a foundation member of the league. In 2011 the team began playing under the Western Sting name. Between 2013 and 2014 future West Coast Fever head coach, Stacey Marinkovich served as the Sting head coach. In 2017, with a squad led by WANL superstar Jessica Eales, which included future Diamonds Sunday Aryang and Sophie Garbin, as well as future Fever players Emma Cosh, Olivia Lewis, Lindal Rohde, Annika Lee-Jones and Kaylia Stanton, the Sting reached their first ANL Grand Final after five bronze-medal finishes in the preceding six seasons. The match was played in front of a home crowd at the State Netball Centre against the Victorian Fury. The Sting led most of the match, including the entire second half, winning 63–47 and claiming their first ANL title.

Super Netball Reserves

In 2025, the Australian Netball Championships was rebranded to the Super Netball Reserves by Netball Australia. This new format competition ran alongside the Suncorp Super Netball season, with Fever Reserves games taking place alongside the West Coast Fever, usually the day before or after an SSN match at a different venue, or pre- or post-SSN match at the same venue. Led by Fever 11th player Zoe Cransberg, and featuring Fever training partners Caitlyn Brown, Kelsey Browne and Sloan Burton, the Fever Reserves won all seven home-and-away season matches, qualifying straight into the Grand Final against the second-place finishing Melbourne Mavericks Reserves. They led at every break by at least 7 goals, cruising to a 67–57 win for the inaugural SN Reserves premiership. 2025 Australian World Youth Cup representative Jasmah Haywood was awarded the Player of the Grand Final after scoring 57/64 goals.

Grand finals

SeasonWinnersScoreRunners upVenue
2017Western Sting63–47Victorian FuryState Netball Centre, Perth
2025West Coast Fever Reserves67–57Melbourne Mavericks ReservesWaverley Netball Centre, Melbourne

Notable players

2025 squad

Notes:
  1. Olivia Wilkinson and Fran Williams are contracted WCF athletes, who are released after SSN games to play in the SN Reserves if required.
  2. Zoe Cransberg is the contracted 11th player for WCF.
  3. Caitlyn Brown, Kelsey Browne and Sloan Burton are WCF training partners.
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Internationals


League MVP

Head coaches

Premierships

  • Australian Netball League
  • *Winners: 2017
  • Super Netball Reserves
  • *Winners: 2025