History
In 2006, the Swifts achieved a feat unsurpassed in Australian sport for 47 years - an undefeated season in the national league. Captain Liz Ellis recovered from a knee reconstruction to lead a group of tough athletes, and take out the MVP award for the third time.
The Swifts were among the most perennially successfully teams in the Commonwealth Bank Trophy, which they first won in 2001 and subsequently in four out of the eleven years during which the event was held. The Swifts were in losing Grand Finalists on several other occasions and made the finals series every year.
The team were particularly successful the final years of the competition, winning a memorable Grand Final game against the Melbourne Phoenix in 2004 by a single goal. In 2006, they were undefeated in both the home-and-away series and the finals, and trounced the Adelaide Thunderbirds by 29 goals in the Grand Final.
In 2007, the Swifts defeated the minor premiers, the Melbourne Phoenix, by eight goals in 2007 in the Grand Final to take out the last ever Commonwealth Bank Trophy title. But they now wear red not yellow.
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