In this episode we kick back and take a page out of the Seinfeld playbook… tune in as we chew the fat on our episode about nothing except women’s hoops. We have a whole lot to say about nothing in particular from Jumping Vs Boxing Out to the return of the Sydney #DoubleHeader and a whole lot more!! Who knew there was so much something to nothing? Enjoy! Join us on Twitter and Facebook: @TheBreezePod
Dynamic Coaching duo Kristen Veal & Sarah Graham play pivotal roles in nurturing the upcoming generation of young promising female basketball talent at the Centre of Excellence in Canberra. They mesh incredibly well in their personalities and roles to create a dynamic pairing charged with developing the next crop of potential Opals in the AIS residential program. Throughout this challenging time for international sport both Kristen and Sarah attended 3 global basketball events contending wit...
WNBL22 will be the season of the super mums. We are grateful to have the chance to talk with new mum Alex Bunton, returning to the sport she loves and ready to show her little girl what mum can do on the court. Coming full circle and now armed with many life experiences after an early retirement Bunts levels up and rejoins the elite world of basketball where it all began for her at 15 years of age! Enjoy! Join us on Twitter and Facebook: @TheBreezePod...
Let’s flip the script and say women’s sports actually deliver the best result for sponsors wanting to make positive connection with fans. Got your attention? Now let’s talk about the data. For more than 10 years Georgie Maynard and True North Research have been on a mission to identify and share sponsorship outcome evidence. Intrigued? Tune in and learn! This is a great podcast for women's sports teams, businesses and everyone involved in sports. Join us on Twitter and Facebook: @TheBreezePod...
In this bonus episode we’re looking at our Opals amazing FIBA Women’s Asia Cup campaign. Our young guns showed they got game by taking it to Japan and only missing out on the Gold Medal game by the slimmest of margins. The future looks good with the Opals bringing back Bronze after denying Korea 3rd place as we head towards next year’s Women’s World Cup Join us on Twitter & Facebook: @TheBreezePod
David Reid - Chairman of the organising committee for the FIBA Womens World Cup jumps on board to give us a remarkable insight into the 10+ years journey behind the scenes to land this amazing basketball event. At a time when women's sports are finally getting its due, Australia will lead the way with the FIBA Womens World Cup in Sydney in 2022. David shares the vision formed over 10 years ago, and provides some unique insights into the long, hard fought journey to bring this special event to fr...
It's a short and sweet bonus episode as we take a look at the FIBA Asia Women's Cup. Staged in Amman, Jordon for the first time our Aussie Opals are in Group B with Chinese Taipei, Philippines and China. Time for our young guns to shine. Let's Go Aussies!! Join us on Twitter & Facebook: @TheBreezePod
From Sydney to Kenya via Zambia and Cameroon Coach Liz Mills takes on a lifetime adventure with identical twin Vik. A whole lot of grit, hard work, determination and an openness to learning paved the way to the history books by coaching men's African basketball. She walks the talk of the African philosophy Ubuntu, ‘I am because we are’. Coach Liz has opened the door for the next generation of female coaches to follow, “No-one’s going to tap us on the shoulder and be like … here’s an opportunity…...
It’s an in-depth podcast where we get into social media and it’s impact on women’s hoops and the wider world of women’s sports. Hosts' Paul Camillos and Jacinta Govind are joined by Siren Sport co-founder Dr Kasey Symons and veteran sports & news journalist Roy Ward in a wide ranging discussion about social media, how it can benefit women’s hoops and other sporting codes as well as the potential for elite players. This podcast covers many opinions on engaging real fans versus attention to th...
We take a quick glance at the current WNBL situation for 21/22 in Part 2 We check-in with clubs’ Perth, last seasons Grand Finalist Townsville, new look Sydney and the UCCaps in our next instalment. Still quite a few unknowns - hub or no hub, and so many free agents! The clock is ticking and the AFLW and now the NRLW will overlap with the WNBL season & compete for eyeballs. It’s crickets with mere weeks before the season is slated to commence. Join us on Twitter and Facebook: @TheBreezePod...
Tune in with Janna Mizens and Darren Allie as we wrap up the last 2 pool games against Great Britain & Canada, and celebrate the Gliders first Tokyo2020 win against Algeria. We’re looking forward to the Gliders upcoming slate including world qualifiers, AIS camps and the on going quest to educate about wheelchair basketball to attract more players and identify talent nationally. Janna & Daz give us an honest and revealing insight into the challenges for the program, developing players as...
Join Janna Mizens and Darren Allie as they review the first 2 Gliders games played between hosts Japan and Rio Silver medallists Germany. Despite losses to both teams, the nerves for our young team have settled and some promising quarters in both games reveal the potential the team has as they keep improving! Janna and Darren also take us through some key insights for the next 2 games and what the Gliders will need to do to stay in the hunt for a QF berth when they face Great Britain and Canada ...
On the eve of the Paralympics wheelchair basketball action, Gliders insiders and Paralympic Gold medallist Janna Mizens & coach Darren Allie give us a great understanding of the sport, classifications and other fundamentals to help get around this dynamic game. An honest conversation about the challenges, including classifications, funding realities in disabled sport and the excitement for our young team to be back at the Paralympics after missing out on Rio. Our first game against hosts Jap...
Let’s take a quick glance at the current situation in WNBL 21/22 Free Agency Part 1 We check-in with Victorian clubs’ reigning Champs Southside Flyers, Melbourne Boomers, and Bendigo Spirit as well as the Adelaide Lightning in our first sneak peek. With quite a few unknowns - hub or no hub, so many free agents with only 2 months out and a competing AFLW season…it’s another shape shifting WNBL season! Join us on twitter: @theBreezePod
Joining us on Shooting The Breeze this week in an engaging catch-up is Opal Marianna Tolo. Just back from Tokyo we had the opportunity to talk about the Olympics, the highs and the lows in one of the most challenging campaigns and the enduring legacy of the Australian Opals. Tolo gives us an insight on her plans for the future, how that Puerto Rico game was an example of Opals grit, and on a lighter note she takes us inside life in the Olympic village, and how DJ’s Cayla & Sara kept the team...
A dominant win by TeamUSA over the Opals closes an emotionally drawn and rimmed out Opals Olympics campaign. There were highlights to be sure, we shoot the breeze on our QF game, whats next and another big event on the Opals horizon in the FIBAWWC 2022. Meanwhile hosts Japan's #AkatsukiFive have played inspired ball and may go all the way or is TeamUSA just invincible? Join us on twitter: @theBreezePod Jacinta is on twitter: @S_Squin
BONUS Tokyo2020 with Jacinta Govind Opals Game 3 wrap and USA QF preview A miraculous hard-fought 27 point win for the Opals against Puerto Rico giving them the final QF slot in perhaps one of their most defining games and certainly one for the history books! Next up invincible TeamUSA are looking for their 5th straight Olympic Gold in a sudden death Quarter Finals, our Opals will need to be relentless - GoOpals! Join us on twitter: @theBreezePod Jacinta is on twitter: @S_Squin...
BOUNS Podcast: Tokyo2020 Series. Jacinta Govind a.k.a ‘Squin’ joins Shooting The Breeze for the Game 2 wrap of China's heartbreaking win against the Opals. Next up in Group C is Puerto Rico. Time to Shoot the Lights out and get us outta this Group phase! Join us on twitter: @theBreezePod Jacinta is on twitter: @S_Squin
BOUNS Podcast: Tokyo2020 Series. Jacinta Govind a.k.a ‘Squin’ joins Shooting The Breeze for the Game 1 wrap of Belgium’s debut win against the Opals. Next up in Group C is China. It’s Sync or Sink. Join us on twitter: @theBreezePod Jacinta is on twitter: @S_Squin
Tune In to our BOUNS Tokyo2020 Series. Jacinta Govind a.k.a ‘Squin’ joins us to preview the first game in the Opals Olympic campaign. The Aussie Opals play Belgium. The Belgian Cats are making their first Olympics appearance. Jacinta is on twitter: @S_Squin
The FIBA Womens World Cup (FIBAWWC 2022) will kick off a phenomenal decade for Womens sports in Australia. In this episode we talk to Martha Lourey-Bird and Jacqui Dover, both former athletes joining forces to spearhead the FIBAWWC Legacy Program rolled out in partnership with Basketball NSW & Office of Sport NSW. As a Sports scientist & lecturer, Martha advocates for girls in sport and provides valuable research into the challenges and barriers for girls and women in sport and basketbal...
In this Episode we welcome back Annie La Fleur - Olympian & NSW Hall of Famer to tell us about basketball programs bringing positive social impacts in the COVID era to the FIBA Oceania and South East Asia regions. Adapting to online delivery has brought unexpected benefits by reaching more people across large geographical regions while also keeping kids and communities engaged. Annie gets into her involvement with indigenous camps across NSW as part of the BNSW partnership with the Patty Mil...
In this episode we are joined by Laura Hodges, a 4 time Aussie Basketball Olympian and inaugural Australian Basketball Players' Assoc. (ABPA) Board member. After a long and successful hoops career with the AIS and Adelaide Lightning in the WNBL, Euroleague & WNBA she is well placed to represent the collective voice of our womens professional players, and with two young daughters she is passionate to see the best for the womens league. During an unprecedented 2020, the ABPA led by former NBL ...
In a different episode we’re joined by Dylan Simpson and Lachlan Ross producer and director of the documentary Go Big a look behind the scenes of the 2020/21 WNBL UCCaps season. By telling the story of the UCCaps drive for a 3peat we get a look at women’s basketball that we’ve never seen before, and a far richer narrative emerges. It’s not just about basketball, it also the stories of players, staff past and present and a celebration of women’s hoops and how the Caps have raised the awareness of...
This is one of our most personal episodes. We called it Vlad the dad because this little story says so much about what we regularly come across and is why we want to produce meaningful content that improves the Women’s basketball landscape. You get a little insight into why we produce Shooting The Breeze. It let’s us share incredible stories from the grassroots to the elite of Women’s Aussie Hoops and to have real conversations that hopefully highlights ways to improve the sport. We’ve also incl...
This week we’re all about steel wheels as we’re joined by Leigh Gooding. Directing Basketball Australia’s Wheelchair programs is one of the many hats he wears and the one we’re talking about. It’s been a tough time for wheelchair basketball for the last year but with the Tokyo games rapidly approaching we talk about preparations for the games, upcoming local tournaments, new and exciting pathways for our youth and watching the sparks fly when the action gets frantic! These inspirational athletes...
While waiting for the announcement of the next Opals team selection, we caught up with Sydney basketball hot shooter Lauren Nicholson. Loz looks back at the challenging start to her first WNBL season with her hometown Sydney Uni Flames that ended with the 2017 WNBL Championship, and her pinch-me moment “some people go through and play 15 years of WNBL and never get a Championship” followed by three years in Adelaide that helped her develop her game. There was never any doubt about her Opals cont...
Our very special guest on this episode is Opals and Phoenix Mercury Head Coach Sandy Brondello. This fiercely competitive Aussie has gone from the sugar cane fields of Mackay in North Queensland to the world stage of women’s basketball leading the mighty Opals towards the Olympics and the Sydney hosted FIBA Women’s World Cup in 2022. Advocating for and demonstrating the impact of female representation in basketball Sandy is one of only five women coaching in the WNBA. She shares her dreams for a...
Welcome back to Shooting The Breeze! We talk with Deakin Melbourne Boomers General Manager Christy Collier-Hill about the 2020 North Queensland WNBL hub season and the team’s experience. Also on the agenda is the challenge of the COVID era and getting fans back to home stadiums ‘everyone’s got to play their part’… and the elephant in the room - broadcast - but more on that later. A strong advocate for developing women’s professional sports Christy sees the opportunity presented by the Olympics a...
Shooting the Breeze Episode 30 Playback #3 Welcome to the third instalment of our Playback series on Shooting the Breeze highlighting choice bits from podcasts Episodes 12 through to 15. From Ep 12 we get an insight with local Sydney player Vanessa Panousis, currently playing in Europe, of her time with the Flames in 2018 and how she handled one of our toughest seasons. From Ep 13 we reminisce with Basketball NSW Hall of Famer Annie La Fleur on the Sydney 2000 Olympics and her impactful role at ...
