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 ...
(AIS) competed 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 ...
(WNBL) as a team of the AIS Athletes. They won the WNBL Championship just once, in the
1998–99 WNBL season, led by a young
Lauren Jackson
Lauren Elizabeth Jackson (born 11 May 1981) is an Australian professional basketball player. The daughter of two national basketball team players, Jackson was awarded a scholarship to the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in 1997, when she ...
. The team continued to compete in the WNBL through the
2011–12 season, but withdrew at the end of that season. AIS were largely uncompetitive in their last years in the WNBL, winning only 29 matches and losing 188 in their final ten WNBL seasons, including a two-season record of 1–41 in
2005–06 and
2006–07. The withdrawal was coordinated with
Basketball Australia
Basketball Australia is the governing and controlling body of basketball in Australia, responsible for the development and promotion of the sport at all levels.
Basketball Australia sanctions Australia's two professional leagues, the Nation ...
, which sought to address the flagging depth in its female junior ranks.
References
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Australian Institute of Sport (WNBL)
Defunct Women's National Basketball League teams
Basketball teams in the Australian Capital Territory
Basketball teams established in 1983
Basketball teams disestablished in 2012
1983 establishments in Australia
2012 disestablishments in Australia
Defunct sporting clubs in Canberra