Shooting The Breeze

BOUNS Podcast: Tokyo2020 Series. Jacinta Govind a.k.a ‘Squin’ joins Shooting The Breeze for the Game 2 wrap of China's heartbreaking win against the Opals. Next up in Group C is Puerto Rico. Time to Shoot the Lights out and get us outta this Group phase! Join us on twitter: @theBreezePod Jacinta is on twitter: @S_Squin

BOUNS Podcast: Tokyo2020 Series. Jacinta Govind a.k.a ‘Squin’ joins Shooting The Breeze for the Game 1 wrap of Belgium’s debut win against the Opals. Next up in Group C is China. It’s Sync or Sink. Join us on twitter: @theBreezePod Jacinta is on twitter: @S_Squin

Tune In to our BOUNS Tokyo2020 Series. Jacinta Govind a.k.a ‘Squin’ joins us to preview the first game in the Opals Olympic campaign. The Aussie Opals play Belgium. The Belgian Cats are making their first Olympics appearance. Jacinta is on twitter: @S_Squin

The FIBA Womens World Cup (FIBAWWC 2022) will kick off a phenomenal decade for Womens sports in Australia. In this episode we talk to Martha Lourey-Bird and Jacqui Dover, both former athletes joining forces to spearhead the FIBAWWC Legacy Program rolled out in partnership with Basketball NSW & Office of Sport NSW. As a Sports scientist & lecturer, Martha advocates for girls in sport and provides v...

In this Episode we welcome back Annie La Fleur - Olympian & NSW Hall of Famer to tell us about basketball programs bringing positive social impacts in the COVID era to the FIBA Oceania and South East Asia regions. Adapting to online delivery has brought unexpected benefits by reaching more people across large geographical regions while also keeping kids and communities engaged. Annie gets into her...

In this episode we are joined by Laura Hodges, a 4 time Aussie Basketball Olympian and inaugural Australian Basketball Players' Assoc. (ABPA) Board member. After a long and successful hoops career with the AIS and Adelaide Lightning in the WNBL, Euroleague & WNBA she is well placed to represent the collective voice of our womens professional players, and with two young daughters she is passionate...

In a different episode we’re joined by Dylan Simpson and Lachlan Ross producer and director of the documentary Go Big a look behind the scenes of the 2020/21 WNBL UCCaps season. By telling the story of the UCCaps drive for a 3peat we get a look at women’s basketball that we’ve never seen before, and a far richer narrative emerges. It’s not just about basketball, it also the stories of players, sta...

This is one of our most personal episodes. We called it Vlad the dad because this little story says so much about what we regularly come across and is why we want to produce meaningful content that improves the Women’s basketball landscape. You get a little insight into why we produce Shooting The Breeze. It let’s us share incredible stories from the grassroots to the elite of Women’s Aussie Hoops...

This week we’re all about steel wheels as we’re joined by Leigh Gooding. Directing Basketball Australia’s Wheelchair programs is one of the many hats he wears and the one we’re talking about. It’s been a tough time for wheelchair basketball for the last year but with the Tokyo games rapidly approaching we talk about preparations for the games, upcoming local tournaments, new and exciting pathways...

While waiting for the announcement of the next Opals team selection, we caught up with Sydney basketball hot shooter Lauren Nicholson. Loz looks back at the challenging start to her first WNBL season with her hometown Sydney Uni Flames that ended with the 2017 WNBL Championship, and her pinch-me moment “some people go through and play 15 years of WNBL and never get a Championship” followed by thre...

Our very special guest on this episode is Opals and Phoenix Mercury Head Coach Sandy Brondello. This fiercely competitive Aussie has gone from the sugar cane fields of Mackay in North Queensland to the world stage of women’s basketball leading the mighty Opals towards the Olympics and the Sydney hosted FIBA Women’s World Cup in 2022. Advocating for and demonstrating the impact of female representa...

Welcome back to Shooting The Breeze! We talk with Deakin Melbourne Boomers General Manager Christy Collier-Hill about the 2020 North Queensland WNBL hub season and the team’s experience. Also on the agenda is the challenge of the COVID era and getting fans back to home stadiums ‘everyone’s got to play their part’… and the elephant in the room - broadcast - but more on that later. A strong advocate...

Shooting the Breeze Episode 30 Playback #3 Welcome to the third instalment of our Playback series on Shooting the Breeze highlighting choice bits from podcasts Episodes 12 through to 15. From Ep 12 we get an insight with local Sydney player Vanessa Panousis, currently playing in Europe, of her time with the Flames in 2018 and how she handled one of our toughest seasons. From Ep 13 we reminisce wit...

In Ep29 of Shooting the Breeze we chat with twins Carly and Chris Boag. The Boag sisters have that twin telepathy thing happening finishing each others sentences. Our dynamic duo are probably the only twins that play side by side in the same professional basketball team. In her fourth year playing for Sydney Carly had a big impact for the team in our 2017 Championship year, joining her on court th...

In Ep28 of Shooting the Breeze we chat with new Flame Anneli Maley as she embarks on her first season for Sydney in the Far North Queensland WNBL hub. The tropic tussle has turned up the heat on and off the court in the most challenging season ever and Maley is loving it. Her natural up tempo, physical game is a great fit at the Flames.  She chats about her future goals in basketball, playing with...

In Ep27 we chat with Mary Konstantopoulos ‘Mary K’ from Ladies who League. A trailblazer in Aussie women’s sports since 2013. Mary Konstantopoulos, better known as MaryK from Ladies who League is our guest on Shooting the Breeze this week. Often attending Sydney Uni Flames games with her mum by her side, MaryK is not only a passionate sports fan she advocates that ‘bums on seats’ are the most pote...

It’s Episode 26 of Shooting The Breeze and our guest is new Flame Lauren Mansfield. A seasoned player with a cool head Loz is a valuable addition to the team for the pressure cooker that is the WNBL Tropical Tournament. We got some time with Loz before she headed to the hub and got a sense of how keen she is to hit the hardwood in the game she loves. Get an insight into how the team has connected...

It’s time for Episode 25 of Shooting The Breeze. Today we chat with a longtime supporter of the Flames and one of the stalwarts of the behind the scenes team, Angus Wildblood, The Flames courtside announcer. Manning the mics for the team for nearly twenty years he has one of the best seats in the house and has refined reading the crowd into a Picasso-like art form. First getting into the announcer...

“Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” ― Brene Brown As the team heads into the hub we catch up with WNBL veteran and Opal Nat Burton. A timely podcast, we’re glad to have the opportunity to talk to one of the most experienced signings in the team about basketball, life and the importance of mindset to stay focused and balanced. Coming full circle Nat enthusiastica...

In Ep23 we chat with the doyenne of Sydney Basketball Lorraine Landon. A true national treasure she created history in 1989 by becoming the manager of both the Sydney Kings and the Sydney Flames - the first woman to hold that position for the NBL and WNBL at the same time. Lorraine has been at the centre of Australian basketball, and particularly women’s basketball, as the team manager for the Opa...

Welcome to STB PlayBack in our second instalment of our playback series highlighting choice bits from podcasts Episodes 7 through to 11. From Ep 7 we get an inside with BNSW CEO Maria Nordstrom into the successful bid for Australia to host the FIBA WWC 2022 in Sydney. From Ep 8 get to know BNSW up and comers, 2020 Flames Development Players Alana Goodchild and from Ep10 Kitty Henderson. In Ep9 we...

Alison Schwagmeyer-Belger is one hard working veteran and she's coming to Sydney! A competitive hard-working baller from Illinois, she's formed her game in tough leagues around Europe, and has landed Down Under. 'Swags' brings an amazing work ethic and steely determination, she loves to train and it shows - picking up Sixth Woman of the Year accolades in WNBL20. She has bagged many MVP awards in t...

Funda Nakkasoglu joins the podcast this week in her return to the WNBL after a long overseas stint. Suiting up for the Sydney Flames after her first pro-ball stint playing for Galatasaray S.K. in the Turkish Women’s Basketball League – where her father also played professionally. She was also a member of the Turkish National squad. A Florida Gators graduate, Nakkasoglu began her college career wit...

On episode 19 of Shooting the Breeze it’s Shelley Gorman, three time Olympian, five times WNBL champion, seven times WNBL All-Star and Hall of Famer. Part of the legendary Opals team that brought back our first Olympic medal from the 1996 Atlanta games. She is one of the all-time greats of Aussie basketball. After basketball Shelley co-founded Urban Warriors www.theurbanwarriors.com and is leading...

It’s time to introduce the new owner of the Brydens Lawyers Sydney Uni Flames, Paul Smith as he lays out his vision for Hoops in the Harbour City. Paul keeps it real on the new world reality but 'let 'em shout from the rooftops...' and dream big for Sydney hoops. Get to know Paul - as owner of both Sydney pro-basketball teams he wants our city to stand tall in the basketball world. Buy the ticket,...