Donnell Wallam caps netball rise with Diamonds Commonwealth Games call-up

• Wallam set to be first Indigenous Diamonds player in 22 years
• 28-year-old only invited to train with the Firebirds in January

Donnell Wallam has completed her meteoric rise from Super Netball train-on player to Diamond, with the Queensland Firebirds star named in Australia's 18-player extended squad for the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

Wallam is set to become the first Indigenous Australian to play for the Diamonds since Sharon Finnan-White in 1990 and only the third overall, after Finnan-White and Marcia Ella-Duncan.