The Molten WBBL Team of the Year – voted by WBBL head coaches and captains – includes former WNBA star Kiki Herbert-Harrigan as one of a pair of London Lions, alongside the league’s leading rebounder and two familiar WBBL campaigners. Ashley Arlen – Leicester Riders Returning to the WBBL for a fourth campaign, after four …
WBBL head coaches and captains have voted for their top defensive stoppers in the 2022-23 campaign, including a pair from London Lions – one of whom breaks a record – as they were the best defensive team in the league, with all five having proven defensive pedigree. Shanice Beckford-Norton – London Lions Great Britain international …
The Molten WBBL All-British Team of the Year, as voted by WBBL head coaches and captains, includes generations of Great Britain national team talent and includes Holly Winterburn moving joint-second in all-time appearances, alongside the WBBL’s leading scorer who returns to the team after a four-year absence. Georgia Gayle – B. Braun Sheffield Hatters Guard …
WBBL Playoffs Caledonia Gladiators 50-69 Leicester Riders (14-19, 14-15, 8-16, 14-19) (Gladiators – Adams 20, Wolf 9, Mcgarrachan/Elias 6; Riders – Squires 25, Arlen/Johnston 12, Robb 7) London Lions 74-49 Sevenoaks Suns (19-13, 17-10, 17-11, 21-15) (Lions – Battle 19, Winterburn 13, Snytsina 11; Suns – Bradshaw 17, Monakana 11, Hodges 10) The Leicester Riders and London Lions punched their ticket to the …
Elle Hendershot of the Durham Palatinates has won the Molten WBBL Player of the Month award for April after leading her team through a dramatic final month of the regular season that saw them reach the verge of the WBBL Play-offs only to fall agonisingly short. Durham made a brave push for the post-season over …
Head Coach of the Caledonia Gladiators, Miguel Ángel Ortega Marco, has won the Molten WBBL Coach of the Month award for April after a strong end to the campaign saw Gladiators surge into second place and achieve the club’s highest ever WBBL Championship finish. Overall, they went 6-2 in April, including ending the month with …
The top three seeds are safely through the WBBL Play-off quarter-finals with all of this week’s All-Star 5 drawn from Caledonia Gladiators, Leicester Riders and London Lions, led by Great Britain international forward Jamila Thompson. Jamila Thompson – Caledonia Gladiators The second-placed Caledonia Gladiators are comfortably through to the Play-off semi-finals after beating Cardiff Met …
The final All-Star 5 of the regular season includes Ty Battle of London Lions as they were crowned champions, alongside an amazing pair of triple-doubles from McKenzie Johnston and Elle Hendershot, the latter as one of two representatives from Durham Palatinates – although that will be little consolation for Durham as they missed out on …
WBBL Championship Caledonia Gladiators 93-55 Essex Rebels (25-16, 49-29, 70-42)(Gladiators: Handy, 23; McGarrachan, 22; Adams, 15 – Rebels: Swart, 14; Munns, 12; Freeman/Paxton, 11) Newcastle Eagles 53-67 Sevenoaks Suns (14-16, 33-35, 40-54)(Eagles: Nolan, 13; Fernandez Pardo, 11; Lewis, 8 – Suns: Monakana, 24; Busch, 11; Koppl, 10) London Lions 90-65 Durham Palatinates (24-17, 39-37, 58-54)(Lions: …
WBBL Championship Manchester Met Mystics 40-98 London Lions (21-22, 28-50, 32-75)(Mystics: Keltos, 15; Niehues, 10; Abbott, 6 – Lions: Winterburn, 17; Beckford-Norton, 15; Joseph, 13) Cardiff Met Archers 67-75 Newcastle Eagles (15-23, 35-43, 50-57)(Archers: Hatch, 21; Bunyan/Habling/Saiki/Yunker, 9; Shanahan, 6 – Eagles: Justinak/Lewis, 20; Nolan, 14; Fernandez Pardo, 11) B. Braun Sheffield Hatters 63-81 Leicester …