australia women national team australia women national team known team played paralympic qualifying competitions summer paralympics official announcement confirming team team included players exception relatively new competition world games teams qualifying australia finished second pool ended tournament sixth place following loss israel second major competition oceania africa regional championships beat new_zealand semi final final qualify london paralympic games paralympics pool china japan canada united_states sweden played japan losing second game pool play lost canada lost games pool play united_states sweden placed pool qualify finals background team nicknamed going competitions qualifying london paralympic games thinking ahead hoping build new young team qualify summer paralympics rio_de_janeiro series competitions leading london paralympic games seen providing valuable training experience selection process took place january camp invitation final team selection announcement included included players new_south_wales queensland south_australia captained team coached support staff london team included section manager team came qualifying period capped player team having played taylor started playing making national debut world championships blow henderson taken sport team members received varying amounts assistance das program blow henderson getting competitions came paralympic qualifying season having finished eighth world championship competed events world games africa oceania regional championships summer paralympics world games australia attempt qualify came april world games held turkey finished sixth place canada finland taking automatic qualifying spots playing pool australia defeated spain lost canada games april following day beat germany april tied hungary following day beat israel april beat south_korea finished second pool points points canada point ahead israel april placement game russia lost 5th 8th placement game spain won game israel fifth place lost africa oceania regional championships africa oceania regional championships sydney opportunity team qualify london paralympic games australia new_zealand competing women event australia play games semi final final new_zealand women national team team included captained team competition blow henderson taylor semi final took lead half time break went win scored australia goals scored taylor scored australian women played new_zealand final beating second time scoring goals scoring taylor scoring team ranked eighth world position continued hold going london games australian team qualify games despite attempts qualify summer paralympics summer paralympics australia qualified automatically host nation paralympics summer paralympics games london pool included china united_states sweden japan canada united_states chinese team reigning gold silver respectively summer paralympics australia lost game japan scored team goal came penalty throw taylor players game australia throws taylor throws throws lost second game canada scored team goal came penalty throw played game blow playing minutes taylor playing minutes finished game throws taylor blow led team blocks having blow taylor lost game united_states played game blow playing minutes taylor playing minutes playing minute led team throws blocks respectively blow throws blocks taylor throws blocks throw blocks australian women lost game sweden game pool play player got playing minutes blow playing minutes taylor henderson scored goals scoring remaining came penalty throw led team throws taylor blow henderson led team blocks blow taylor sweden goals australian goal scored group play qualifying paralympic goals summary
2011–12 Australia women's national goalball team