Shooting The Breeze

Join our hosts Paul Camillos & Jacinta Govind for a LIVE NBL1 East Women's Grand Final pre-game podcast from Brydens Stadium. This game between cross peninsula rivals the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and Norths Bears will be a battle between two top tier teams supported by their hard core & vocal fans. Our hosts deep dive into the rivalry between Manly and Norths and joining from an Albury b...

We’ve got a special podcast this week, joining us is the head of the WNBL Christy Collier-Hill, giving us an early peek into the upcoming season and beyond. It’s been a phenomenal time for women’s sports. Aussie fans of women's hoops have been treated to a memorable year of world class talent and competition in our backyard, add to the mix the excitement of the FIFA Women's World Cup and you know...

It’s the first of our 3-part Tauihi NZ Special Series with NZ expert Linden Moore and returning pod guest Maia Williamson hailing from New Zealand’s South Island. The second season of the Tauihi league kick started in the last fortnight and with Round 3 just starting we get a good look into the growing quality of players, particularly imports drafted into the Tauihi as well as returning Tall Ferns...

We’re thrilled to have Lauren Mansfield return to Shooting The Breeze, she’s one of our OG Series 1 pod guests that is doing great things in the community. An experienced point guard for the Adelaide Lightning, Loz gives us an insight into her hopes and expectations for the WNBL season ahead with exciting player developments. An exciting yet humble player, Loz has low key been smashing it in every...

Next in our series of Passport Pods we have two African Queens transforming the women in hoops landscape on the continent! We welcome Shooting the Breeze regular Coach Liz Mills returned from a fantastic BAL tournament in which her team from Côte d'Ivoire played in their first BAL at Kigali and Queen John-Moseph joins us for the first time. Queen is a highly regarded sports journalist from Nigeria...

In a fascinating podcast we’re joined by Saraid Taylor, a cross code AFLW, formerly WNBL, athlete. Both an athlete and artist Saraid has thrived in the AFLW recently after being in a holding pattern as a WNBL development player for a few years. Now based at the Melbourne Demons she is grateful to be in a league that leads the way in athlete development on and off the field. In this pod we also get...

We're live from the Women's Asia Cup being held in Sydney at the Quaycentre at Sydney Olympic Park. Our STB crew panel Paul Camillos, Jacinta Govind and Linden Moore will look at the action that's happened, the games that are coming up, including a critical game for Australia tonight against a fierce Korea, in order to advance to the semi final phase and qualify for the 2024 Olympics. We also talk...

We’re thrilled to have home based Al Kunek join us again on Shooting The Breeze, one of our OG pod guests from Series 1, AK circles home in a reflective piece that speaks to her vast and varied experience of her European journey these last few years. A sweet conclusion to this journey is AK’s call up to wear the Green & Gold again for the Opals in Australia’s first Asia Cup on home soil. Her k...

In this pretty special episode, we have reigning Champ with the Townsville Fire Steph Reid join us. This pod was full of laughs as Steph shares the head spinning last 12 months and some personal stories from her college years to her fave food that she’s just a little obsessed by. It’s a truly magical full circle moment with Steph joining us on Shooting The Breeze after such a whirlwhind few months...

In a podcast first, we’re thrilled to be joined by two of our elite leaders in women’s hoops - Basketball Australia’s Head of Women in Basketball and a hoops legend, Lauren Jackson, as well as FIBA Women’s World Cup (FIBAWWC) Opals Captain Tess Madgen. Both Lauren and Tess give us an update on their respective recoveries and where they’re at, and share their passion and ‘reason why’ for the She Ho...

In this episode we’re really grateful to be joined by one of our own - doing great things offshore. Joining us in our latest passport pod is Coach Tracy York - the Head Coach of the Malaysian Women's National Basketball Team that won Bronze at the recent South East Asia Games… during a monster heat wave in Cambodia! A veteran coach of the WNBL, most recently with Bendigo Spirit, she has uniquely c...

It’s our first look into WNBL24 Free Agency, and it's already shaping up to be a doozy! We have alot of fun with this one and jump right into it with Assistant Coach of NBL1 East reigning champs’ Border Bandits’ Sammy McDonald. Based on the border of the two largest hoops states Sammy Mac helps us spitball some ideas in an exciting era for up and coming talent, vets that just keep getting better a...

In our next passport pod, Kiwi hoops expert Linden Moore joins us to talk to community ambassador and baller Maia Williamson. Coaching at Middleton Grange High School in Christchurch Maia was born to coach and is paying it forward at her alma mater. A participant of the well-regarded Mainland Eagles Camp at a significant time of growth for New Zealand basketball in the South Island - a region of N...

In this episode we lean on some Ted Lasso* inspiration, hence the name of the pod… you’ll have to listen in for that one. We get into the recent swarm of speculation on the WNBL just as the CBA was being negotiated ahead of Free Agency. At the time of recording this episode Free Agency was delayed, and has only just opened up on Tuesday 9th May - weeks later than expected leaving many athletes in...

Next up in our passport pods for Series 5, we are joined by Amanda Christovich, a sport’s business reporter with Front Office Sports, to discuss the record growth of the NCAA Women’s March Madness. From viewership and media rights to the evolution of the women’s game and the currency of our female players particularly as Aussie representation increases in US College hoops. Increasing coverage by E...

Co-founders of First Subs, Madel Giles and Kaz Emery join us for our first LIVE podcast of Series 5. LIVE from ELS Hall Park, the home of the Inner West Bulls, we talk about their spirited community of women hoopers that was formed alongside their friends Marianne Engle and Victoria Kirby for women to come together to play hoops in Western Sydney. Creating an inclusive, friendly and welcoming envi...

In the first of our passport pod episodes for Series 5 we talk with Jocelyn Song - a recent graduate of Claremont McKenna College in Media Studies/Economics and an Asian American Studies minor, she makes her directorial debut with 'Sòng Pèi Xīng', a short documentary on her sister, professional basketball player Sophia Song. Jocelyn is the first female director we’ve hosted on Shooting The Bree...

In this episode we look back at the WNBL Grand Final and a massive Series 4 as we wrap up what’s been our most exciting and biggest series yet! The Townsville Fire, led by Series 4 pod guest Coach Shannon Seebohm, have taken the WNBL Championship after a 16 game winning streak. We also take a look in the rear view mirror of an adventurous ride that has covered the peaks of a Bronze medal for Austr...

It’s WNBL Grand Final Eve, and joining us is expert commentator Lori Chizik. In this episode we take stock of an impressive Semi Finals series, preview the Grand Finals Series, and cover some key observations from a hugely successful WNBL23. The consistent top 2 teams in the back half of the season prevail for an epic Grand Final showdown this Saturday night. Shannon Seebohms’ Townsville Fire are...

LIVE from the NCCC for the UCCaps final game for the season - it's the Domestic Violence round at the UCCaps final home game agaisnt Perth Lynx. Hosts Paul Camillos and Jacinta Govind are joined by social & digital media sponsor of the UCCaps, Simon & Michelle from MVP Media, they also host the UCCaps Weekly podcast. We touch on DV awareness, and the powerful story of Alex Bunton. We explo...

This epsiode deals with domestic violence. Please take care in listening and know that if you or someone you know needs advise or help contact 1800-737 732 or 1800RESPECT In a raw and deeply personal episode Alex 'Bunts' Bunton, a former Opal and UCCapitals big allows us in to her lived experience as a Domestic Violence “DV” victim survivor. In their final home game, the UCCaps play Perth Lynx and...

Captain of the Southside Flyers, and stalwart of the club, Aimie Rocci is championing the Lifeline Round and continuing the legacy of former captain and recent pod guest Jenna O’Hea. Despite a season ending injury, Aimie continues to have a significant impact on her team and the club with initiatives such as the Lifeline Round. In showcasing true leadership Aimie opens up about her own personal ex...

The Sydney Flames team up with the McGrath Foundation for its inaugural Pink Round at the Quaycentre this Friday 24th February from 6.45pm. In a podcast first, teammates and dynamite guards Tiana Mangakahia and Vanessa Panousis come together to promote the breast cancer initiative but also share their moving and often hilarious anecdotes as friends, a journey that started from juniors at Nationals...

LIVE GAME CALL from the Quaycentre It's the final game of the WNBL Indigenous Round and hosts' Sydney Flames take on Melbourne Boomers. The Boomers suffered a loss in double overtime against ladder leaders Townsville Fire earleir in this round and were looking for a definitve win against 6th placed Flames. Our STB co-host Jacinta Govind is joined by special guest Rachel Herrick, former WNBL player...

In an inspiring episode we talk with up-and-coming New Zealand talent Zoe Richards. Returning last year to her hometown of Dunedin on the South Island, while juggling work as a teacher’s aide Zoe became part of NZ basketball history, playing in the inaugural Tauihi Aotearoa Basketball League with the Southern Hoiho - the first pay parity professional women’s hoops league in New Zealand. We travel...