Kristy Doyle

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Kristy Doyle (born December 8, 1980) is an Australian netball player.

She showed early promise as a shooter for the New South Wales state team in 1998, making the Australian 21 and under squad in 1999. She represented the Sydney Sandpipers in the national Commonwealth Bank Trophy in 1998 and 1999, and impressed enough that she was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport in 2000. This saw Doyle spend two years training at the AIS and playing in the AIS team in the South Australian state league, the Dairy Farmers Cup. She was ultimately chosen as the vice-captain of the national 21 and under team in 2000, and promoted to captain in 2001.

After two relatively successful years at the Australian Institute of Sport, Doyle was widely seen as a rising star of the competition, and was recruited by the Melbourne Kestrels for the 2002 season, who initially added her to their starting list. However, after receiving limited court time in one very mixed season, due to both on-court and off-court problems (the latter including having to deal with her mother suffering a stroke), she returned to Sydney, and was again signed by the Sandpipers. She again saw mixed, if improving form, during the 2003 season, but her career suffered a major blow when the Sandpipers were axed from the competition at the end of the year. The Illawarra-based Doyle did not sign with the Sandpipers replacement, the Newcastle-based Hunter Jaegers, and returned to amateur netball. She is currently the captain of the Illawarra team in the New South Wales state league, the Dairy Farmers State League.