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Hannah Lewis (racewalker)
Hannah Lewis (born 29 January 1984) is an Australian basketball player. She has joined a Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) team for the 2005/2006 season when she played for the Perth Lynx. She has subsequently played for the Canberra Capitals in the same league. She has also played for the Canberra Nationals in the Waratah Basketball League. Personal Lewis She is tall. Basketball Lewis played her junior basketball for the Sturt Sabres of South Australia. Lewis first played in the WNBL during the 2005/2006 season where she played for the Perth Lynx. She did not play in the WNBL during the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 season. Lewis joined the Canberra Capitals for the 2008/2009 season and continued to play for them during the 2009/2010 season, where she played the role of bench forward in a season when the club won the WNBL Championship. During the season, Lauren Jackson was quoted as saying the Capitals training was really intense because of players like Lewis. Lew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's National Basketball League
The Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) is the pre-eminent professional women's basketball league in Australia. It is currently composed of eight teams. The league was founded in 1981 and is the women's counterpart to the National Basketball League (NBL). Several WNBL teams have NBL counterparts. The Adelaide Lightning, Melbourne Boomers, Perth Lynx, Southside Flyers and Sydney Uni Flames are the current WNBL teams sharing a market with an NBL team (the Townsville Fire and University of Canberra Capitals shared a market with the Townsville Crocodiles and Canberra Cannons respectively, before both NBL clubs became defunct). The current league champions are the Melbourne Boomers, who won their second title in 2022. History Founding of the WNBL In August 1980, West Adelaide Bearcat Coach Ted Powell, after an encouraging exchange of letters with St Kilda'Coach Bill Palmer called a meeting at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel in Adelaide. In attendance were Ted, North Adelai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Jansen
Lauren Jansen (born 24 December 1992) is an Australian basketball player from the Canberra. She has played several seasons for the Canberra Capitals. Personal Lauren Jansen was born in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory on 24 December 1992. She is tall. She grew up as a fan of the Capitals and attended games for the team. She attended St Francis Xavier College. Basketball Juniors Jansen played her junior basketball in the Australian Capital Territory. In 2008, she played for the Wests Magpie's under-18 premier one division team. That season, as a 15-year-old, she was part of the team that beat the Brindabella team in the season championship. In 2008, she was also a part of the basketball program at the ACT Academy of Sport. In 2008, she received several honours from the organisation including earning the Ken Norris Emerging Talent Award and Basketball Squad Athlete of the Year Award. In 2009, while still on scholarship with the ACT Academy of Sport, she was honoured ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Women's Basketball Players
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canberra Capitals Players
Canberra ( ) is the capital city of Australia. Founded following the federation of the colonies of Australia as the seat of government for the new nation, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory at the northern tip of the Australian Alps, the country's highest mountain range. As of June 2021, Canberra's estimated population was 453,558. The area chosen for the capital had been inhabited by Indigenous Australians for up to 21,000 years, with the principal group being the Ngunnawal people. European settlement commenced in the first half of the 19th century, as evidenced by surviving landmarks such as St John's Anglican Church and Blundells Cottage. On 1 January 1901, federation of the colonies of Australia was achieved. Following a long dispute over whether Sydney or Melbourne should be the national capital, a compromise was reached: the new capital would be buil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1984 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). * January 10 ** The United States and the Vatican (Holy See) restore full diplomatic relations. ** The Victoria Agreement is signed, institutionalising the Indian Ocean Commission. *January 24 – Steve Jobs launches the Macintosh personal computer in the United States. February * February 3 ** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor–UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer from one woman to another, resulting in a live birth. ** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' is launched on the 10th Space Shuttle mission. * February 7 – Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk. * February 8– 19 – The 1984 Winter Olympics are held i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bankstown Bruins
Bankstown Bruins is a NBL1 East club based in Sydney, New South Wales. The club fields a team in the Men's NBL1 East. The club is a division of Bankstown Basketball Association (BBA), the major administrative basketball organisation in the region. The Bruins play their home games at Bankstown Basketball Stadium. Club history Background In 1979, a Bankstown Bruins men's team entered the National Basketball League (NBL) for the league's inaugural season. In 1983, Robbie Cadee was named the recipient of the NBL Coach of the Year Award after helping the Bruins improve from a 2–24 record in 1982 to a 12–10 record in 1983. After seven disappointing seasons as the Bruins, the team was renamed the West Sydney Westars for the 1986 NBL season. That year, the Westars finished in fifth place with a 15–12 record. Following the 1987 season, the Westars merged with the Sydney Supersonics to become the Sydney Kings. Waratah League / NBL1 East In 1991, a reinvigorated Bankstown Bruins ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hornsby Spiders
Hornsby may refer to: Places * Hornsby, Cumbria, a List of places in Cumbria, place in Cumbria, Northern England * Hornsby, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia ** Hornsby railway station ** Hornsby Shire, New South Wales, local government area of Sydney ** Electoral district of Hornsby, a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly located in the region * Hornsby Plateau, north of Sydney * Hornsby, Tennessee in the United States of America * Hornsby Mountains in the Falkland Islands * Hornsby (crater) on the Moon * Hornsby Spring, a List of springs in Florida, 1st magnitude spring in Alachua County, Florida Other uses * Hornsby (surname) * Richard Hornsby & Sons, engine manufacturers * Hornsby Brand Design, branding, design, and advertising firm See also * Hornby (other) * Hornsby Heights, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicki Graham
Nicki is a given name, and may refer to: Film and television * Nicki Aycox (1975-2022), American actress best known for her roles as Syl on the series ''Dark Angel'' and Stella Vessey on the dramedy ''Ed'' * Nicki Chapman (born 1967), English television presenter who also works in the British pop music industry * Nicki Clyne (born 1983), Canadian actress * Nicki Hunter, American pornographic actress and director * Nicki Paull, Australian actress * Nicki Shields, English television presenter who also works as the Formula E pit lane reporter Other * Nicki (singer), stage name of German pop singer Doris Andrea Hrda (born 1966) * Nicki French (born 1964), English singer and dancer * Nicki McNelly (born 1962), British Anglican priest * Nicki Minaj (born 1982), Trinidadian rapper and singer * Nicki Sørensen (born 1975), Danish male professional road bicycle racer See also * Nichi * Nicky * Nickie * Nicci (other) * Nikki (other) Nikki may refer to: Arts an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kellie Abrams
Kellie Abrams (born 10 December 1978 in Ballarat, Victoria) is an Australian professional basketball player for the Canberra Capitals in the Women's National Basketball League. As the captain of the Capitals, Abrams plays as a guard, and standing at 175 cm, she can also be a forward. She made her debut in the WNBL in 1995 with the Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The Institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ... team and moved to the Capitals in 1997. She was part of the Canberra Capitals championship winning teams in 2001/02, 2002/03, and 2006/07. She was voted the best defender in the Capitals lineup for the 2002/03 season. References Living people 1978 births Australian women's basketball players Sportspeople from Ballarat Canberra Capitals players Australian Inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chantella Perera
Chantella Perera (born 7 June 1986) is an Australian rules footballer who played for West Coast in the AFL Women's AFL Women's (AFLW) is Australia's national semi-professional Australian rules football league for female players. The first season of the league in February and March 2017 had eight teams; the league expanded to 10 teams in the 2019 season, 1 ... (AFLW). AFLW career In June 2021, Perera was delisted by West Coast. References External links * * Living people 1986 births West Coast Eagles (AFLW) players Australian rules footballers from Victoria (state) Sportswomen from Victoria (state) {{AFL-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waratah League
The NBL1 East, formerly the Waratah League, is a semi-professional basketball league in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, comprising both a men's and women's competition. In 2021, Basketball New South Wales and the National Basketball League (NBL) announced a partnership to bring NBL1 NBL1 is a semi-professional basketball league in Australia, consisting of South, North, Central, West and East Conferences with both men's and women's competitions. Each conference is run by their respective state governing body, with the l ... to New South Wales in 2022, with NBL1 replacing the Waratah League. As a result, the Waratah League became the east conference of NBL1. The Waratah League was previously a member of the Australian Basketball Association (ABA) from 2001 to 2008. Current clubs ''* Teams that transferred from the Waratah League.'' ''** Teams that transferred from other NBL1 conference.'' List of Champions Premier Division Waratah League S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
