Carissa Leanne Tombs OAM (née Dalwood, born 19 November 1969) is a former Australian netball player.

[4] She began her top-level netball career at 16 with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) team,[5] with whom she played in the Superleague in 1986 and 1987, winning the grand final in 1986.

[10] Tombs was a part of the Australian under-21 side which won the inaugural World Youth Netball Championships in Canberra in 1988.

[1] She was a regular member of the Australian squad over the next decade, playing 91 times before her retirement in October 1999.

She faced a particular challenge in a knee reconstruction which resulted from an injury sustained in the 1997 National League season, after which she returned to win the 1998 Commonwealth Games gold and 1999 World Championships title.