"I still pinch myself that I'm commentating netball now for Channel 9," says former Australian Diamonds captain Liz Ellis. Ellis, who led the Australian netball team to a World Cup in 2007, said she could not have envisaged the attention her sport now gets. The increasing prominence of female athletes, following a year in which the AFL Women's league began and women's Big Bash cricket and soccer's national W-League grew in stature, is reflected in this year's Australia Day Honours.