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Tall Ferns
The New Zealand's elite women's basketball team is affectionately known to their home fans as the Tall Ferns. The team has been coached by Guy Molloy since 2018. The assistant coaches are Aik Ho and Jody Cameron. The Tall Ferns have a FIBA world ranking of 34. The team includes both young and experienced Kiwi athletes, who are involved in a variety of leagues or colleges in the US, Australia and Europe. The Tall Ferns form once a year to represent their county. Results Summer Olympics * 2000 – 11th place * 2004 – 8th place * 2008 – 10th place FIBA World Championship * 1994 – 15th place Commonwealth Games * 2006 – 2nd place * 2018 – 3rd place FIBA Asia Cup * 2017 – 6th place * 2019 – 5th place * 2021 – 5th place Current squad Roster for the 2021 FIBA Women's Asia Cup. Notable past players * Lisa Wallbutton, (2008 Olympic Games, 2006 Commonwealth Games) * Leanne Walker, (1994 World Championship and 2000 & 2004 Olympic Games) * Gina Far ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Molloy
Guy Molloy (born 4 November 1965) is an Australian basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of the Southland Sharks in the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL). Coaching career WNBL Molloy began his coaching career as head coach of the Canberra Capitals for the 1989 WNBL season. Between 1993 to 1996 he served as head coach of the Perth Breakers. The Breakers reached the finals in all four of Molloy's seasons, including reaching the 1993 Grand Final. In 1995, Molloy was named the WNBL Coach of the Year. In 2013, Molloy returned to the WNBL, as head coach of the newly branded Melbourne Boomers. In his first season back, after leading the Boomers to the semi-finals, he was named the WNBL Coach of the Year for the second time. He parted ways with the Boomers at the end of the 2021–22 WNBL season after leading them to the championship. NBL Molloy was appointed head coach of the Cairns Taipans of the NBL in 2001. He left the Taipans in 2005 after four seasons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firebrand Otago Gold Rush
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Angela Marino
Angela Marino (born 3 February 1986) is a former New Zealand professional women's basketball. She has previously represented the Adelaide Lightning, Canberra Capitals and the Perth Lynx. She has the WNBL championship once in the 2007–08 season with the Adelaide Lightning. Personal Marino was born in Waiuku to Italian parents before moving to Australia as an infant. Her father was the former owner of the Adelaide Lightning, the team she used to play for. Though born in New Zealand, she has represented South Australia at the under 20s level during the Australian National Junior Championships. International career Marino represented the Tall Ferns at the 2004 Olympics at 18 years of age, and was selected to participate in the 2008 Beijing Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aneka Kerr
Aneka Kerr (born 1 March 1981 in Rangiora) is a basketball player for New Zealand. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games she won a silver medal as part of the Tall Ferns New Zealand women's basketball team. Kerr represented New Zealand and the Tall Ferns at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics. Kerr also played in the 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 Baske ... in Australia with teams from Melbourne, Townsville, Dandenong and Christchurch. References 1981 births Living people New Zealand women's basketball players Basketball players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games silver medallists for New Zealand Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from Rangio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Farmer
Sally Farmer (born 20 May 1976) is a New Zealand former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), .... References 1976 births Living people New Zealand women's basketball players Olympic basketball players for New Zealand Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics {{NewZealand-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megan Compain
Megan Helen Compain (born 18 September 1975) is a New Zealand former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Biography She was born 18 September 1975 in , New Zealand. As an exchange student she attended in New Jersey.Staff"New Jersey Olympians in other sports" '' |
Julie Ofsoski
Julie Ofsoski (born 4 April 1973) is a former basketball player from New Zealand who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics. References 1973 births Living people New Zealand women's basketball players New Zealand expatriate basketball people in Australia New Zealand people of Polish descent Australian people of New Zealand descent Olympic basketball players of New Zealand Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics {{NewZealand-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Loffhagen
Donna Wilkins (née Loffhagen) (born 29 April 1978 in Christchurch, New Zealand) is a New Zealand representative in netball and basketball. She married Southland farmer Mike Wilkins on 17 March 2007. Wilkins returned to the Southern Steel for the 2012 season, after a short stint with the Canterbury Tactix in 2011. Netball Wilkins has represented the New Zealand Silver Ferns 56 times, making her 50th cap against Barbados in Auckland, New Zealand. The 1.85 cm, Goal Attack and Goal Shoot, started her career for Canterbury in the National Championships in 1994 as a cool sixteen-year-old. She carried on playing for the province until called into the Silver Ferns in 1996. After four years playing top netball in Canterbury, Donna Wilkins signed with the Southland netball team for the 1997 season along with fellow Silver Ferns captain Bernice Mene. She shot the southerners into fourth place overall in the championships, a much improved performance of 10th the year before. After Net ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Cotton
Rebecca Christina Cotton (born 23 August 1974 in Nelson) is a basketball player for New Zealand. She competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics for the Tall Ferns New Zealand women's basketball team. At the 2006 Commonwealth Games The 2006 Commonwealth Games, officially the XVIII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Melbourne 2006 (Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm 2006'' or ''Naarm 2006''), was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth held ... she was part of the silver medal winning Tall Ferns side. References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cotton, Rebecca[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leone Patterson
Leone Patterson (born 11 December 1962) is a New Zealand former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... Patterson also competed for New Zealand at the 1994 World Championship held in Australia.FIBA Archive. 1994 World Championship for WomenNew Zealand Retrieved 2014-01-04. Leone was a star centre for Chapman University in Orange, California during the mid-1990s. References 1962 births Living people New Zealand women's basketball players Olympic basketball players for New Zealand Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{NewZealand-basketball-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirstin Daly-Taylor
Kirstin Marie Daly-Taylor (born 17 May 1969) is a New Zealand basketball coach and former international player who competed in the 1994 FIBA World Championship and the 2000 Summer Olympics for the Tall Ferns. In December 2015, Daly-Taylor was named the head coach of the Hawke's Bay Hawks for the next five years, becoming one of the rare women to take control of a men's team at a domestic level. In her first season at the helm in 2016, the Hawks went 0–18 to become just the fourth side in NBL history to go an entire season without a win. Things did not get better for Daly-Taylor in 2017, as the Hawks started the season with a 1–6 record. Amid allegations she had lost the respect of some players, on 26 April 2017, she handed in her resignation following the team's Anzac Day loss to the Canterbury Rams The Canterbury Rams are a New Zealand basketball team based in Christchurch. The Rams compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at Cowles Stad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tania Tupu
Tania Maria Tupu (; born 28 December 1973) is a New Zealand former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics and in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), .... Tupu also competed for New Zealand at the 1994 World Championship held in Australia. She is married to former NBL player Chris Tupu. As coach of the Tokomanawa Queens, Tupu guided the team to the inaugural Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa championship in 2022. References 1973 births Living people New Zealand women's basketball players Olympic basketball players for New Zealand Basketball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Basketball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa coaches New Zealand basketball coaches People educated at Aotea Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |