WABA Multipower for season 2008–09 was the eighth season of

WABA League WABA League, commonly known as the Adriatic League, is a top-level regional basketball league, featuring female teams from Serbia, Montenegro, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Croatia. Clubs from Turkey, North Macedonia, ...

. The league included nine teams from five countries, with Šibenik Jolly becoming champions, for the fourth time in the team's history. In this season participating clubs from

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and from

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. The season began on 11 October 2008 and ended on 28 February 2009, when it completed a Regular season. The Final Four was played during the 14th and 15 March 2009 in

Bijelo Polje Bijelo Polje (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бијело Поље, ) is a town located in the Northern Montenegro, Northern Region of Montenegro, situated along Lim (river), Lim River. It has an urban population of 12,900 (2011 census). It is the ad ...

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. The Winner of the Final Four this season was Šibenik Jolly from

Team information

Regular season

The season was played with 9 teams in a dual circuit system, each team playing one game at home and one away. The four best teams at the end of the regular season were placed in the Final Four. The regular season began on 11 October 2008 and it ended on 28 February 2009.

Final four

The final four was played from 14 to 15 March 2009, in the Nikoljac hall in

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Awards

* Player of the Year: Constance Jinks (170-G-81) of Šibenik Jolly * Coach of the Year:

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of Šibenik Jolly 1st Team * Constance Jinks (170-G-81) of Šibenik Jolly *

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(195-C-89) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje * Luca Ivanković (200-C-87) of Šibenik Jolly * Jasmina Bigović (174-G-79) of Jedinstvo * Monique Blake (188-F-85) of Merkur Celje 2nd Team * Ivana Jurčević (174-G-81) of Šibenik Jolly * Jelena Ivezić (184-G-84) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje *

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(191-F/C-85) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje * Mirna Mazić (188-F-85) of Medveščak *

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(188-C-86) of Budućnost Honorable Mention * Neda Lokas (182-F-85) of Šibenik Jolly *

Marta Čakić Marta Čakić (born 16 August 1982) is a Croatian former female professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compe ...

(175-G-82) of Šibenik Jolly * Lamisha Augustine (186-F-82) of Gospić Croatia Osiguranje *

Dea Klein-Šumanovac Dea Klein-Šumanovac (born 17 May 1981 in Zagreb, SFR Yugoslavia) is a former Croatian female professional basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular ...

(182-G/F-81) of Medveščak *

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(187-F-84) of Jedinstvo * Nika Barič (168-G-92) of Merkur Celje * Dragoslava Žakula (173-G-73) of Mladi Krajišnik * Matea Vrdoljak (186-F-85) of Ragusa Dubrovnik * Anja Stupar (178-F/C-89) of Vojvodina NIS

External links

2008–09 WABA Multipower
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