Lauren Jackson will lead 11 of Australia’s Beijing silver medallists into the women’s basketball world championships in the Czech Republic later this year.
The squad, announced on Friday, combines proven combinations with new talent such as Rachael Flanagan and Hanna Zavecz, who proved themselves for Townsville and Bulleen respectively in the WNBL this season.
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Seven-time WNBL champion Nat Hurst hopes a new mental toughness and a three-month stint bossing the world’s best player around will keep her world-championship dream alive.
The Canberra Capitals point guard remains hopeful she will retain her spot in Carrie Graf’s Australian Opals squad which will be announced in the coming week.
And after her starring role [...]

BENDIGO Bank Spirit star Kristi Harrower has been rewarded for her outstanding season, earning a place in the Women’s National Basketball League’s All-Star Five for the second consecutive year.
She was joined in the elite squad by former Bendigo Lady Braves star Deanna Smith.
Harrower, the Spirit’s captain and general manager had an impressive season, with the [...]

Superstar Lauren Jackson has another championship and MVP award after the Canberra Capitals made WNBL history with a gutsy grand final win over the Bulleen Boomers.
The experienced Capitals scored the last six points to win 75-70 after trailing the minor premiers at every change.
It was their seventh championship – a league record – in 11 [...]

THE Canberra Capitals have become the winningest team in Australian Women’s basketball history, taking out the 2009-10 WNBL Grand Final, their seventh League championship and second in succession, over local favourites the Bulleen Boomers at The Cage yesterday.
In a fierce battle in which the lead changed 23 times, Canberra edged in front late in the [...]

IT’S been so long since Lauren Jackson has played a game of basketball in Sydney that she couldn’t remember when or for which team.
But the multiple winner of MVP awards in the top European and US leagues raised hopes yesterday that this Saturday’s WNBL “dog fight” with Sydney University Flames may not be the last [...]

UMMC Ekaterinburg have hit the heights in Russia but they want much more.
They are desperate to be European champions.
The time is quickly approaching for Gundars Vetra’s team to show what it’s made of.
UMMC have a EuroLeague Women Quarter-Final tie with in-form Good Angels Kosice that tips off in Russia on February 23.
Victory in that [...]

Becky Hammon has announced her reasons for leaving Ros Casares in a statement on her website, beckyhammon25.com.
The American point guard had recently signed an extension with the Spanish giants to remain at least until the end of the club’s EuroLeague Women campaign but she decided to go after their 2-0 sweep of ZVVZ USK Prague [...]

Bang on course for a perfect sweep of predictions in the last sixteen and feeling pretty smug, I should have anticipated that the delicious roller-coaster that is EuroLeague Women would wipe the smile off my face in one fell swoop and bite me where it hurts.
Yes, there is only one place to start this week [...]

LIGHTNING ace Claire O’Bryan has set a wet season women’s league point-scoring record.
O’Bryan hit 45 points as top side Lightning crushed Warriors 109-42 on Tuesday.
Her haul beat the 41 points Ansett player Jackie Buckthought racked up in the 1997 Challenge Season competition.
And it was just one point less than the record for any season [...]