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.
Read more about this topic: Sydney Swifts
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)