team victoria
The Victorian Leadbeaters and Victorian Honeyeaters are our Victorian representative teams. These teams are selected yearly via try-outs and talent identification by a selection panel to complete at Quadball Australia’s State Shield, commonly held in October of each year. The Leadbeaters and Honeyeaters compete against the QLD Thunderbirds, QLD Firehawks, NSW Bluetongues and NSW Bluebottles.
Our 2019 logo and uniform re-brand is thanks to Todd Fox at Slulk Art and Design, Nicola Gertler from Quadball Victoria, and ISC.
the Leadbeaters
The endangered Leadbeater's Possum is Victoria’s faunal emblem. The species is found only in Victoria, and lives primarily in the ash forests and sub-alpine woodlands of Victoria's central highlands, with a small lowland population to the east of Melbourne.
The Leadbeaters were formed in 2016 to first compete in a series of three rounds against the NSW Blue Tongues in a state of origin style event at Victorian Fantasy, QA Quidcamp and a final stand alone event hosted at the University of New South Wales. Team VIC took home Quadball Australia’s State of Origin Shield by the closest of margins, winning 5 games to 4. In 2017 the Leadbeaters again triumped over the Team NSW and the newly formed Queensland Thunderbirds in the terrential rain in Brisbane, dropping only one game to the Thunderbirds across the weekend.
2018 saw an influx of Leadbeaters debutants and a changing of the guard as the team was filled with new and upcoming players. Triumphing over Team QLD and the NSW second’s, the Bluebottles, Team VIC were unable to retain the title falling to the NSW Bluetongues; giving them their first State Shield Championship.
2019 saw victoria host state shield for the first time. Despite valiant wins against Queensland, NSW Bluebottles and VIC Honeyeaters, the Leadbeaters eventually lost a close grand final to the NSW Bluetongues
the honeyeaters
The Helmeted Honeyeater is the bird emblem for Victoria. It is a distinctive and critically endangered subspecies of the yellow-tufted honeyeater, that exists in the wild only as a tiny relict population in the Australian state of Victoria, in the Yellingbo Nature Conservation Reserve. We felt the Honeyeater was a fitting namesake to join our Victorian squad alongside Victoria’s faunal emblem, the Leadbeater's Possum.
The Honeyeaters made their debut in 2019 at Quidditch Australia’s state shield, winning a match against the Queensland thunderbirds, ultimately finishing in 5th place.
