By Jamie Thomas Having very much found her rhythm in the WBBL with Kenrick Liburd’s Nottingham Wildcats, rookie guard Brooklyn Pannell is thriving in her role as she looks to help lead the club to a WBBL Trophy Final and the Playoffs. Fresh from leading the league in the latest WBBL All-Star Five rankings – …
By Jamie Thomas Sitting sixth in the table with three games in hand on the teams directly ahead of them, it hasn’t been a bad season by any stretch for the Essex Rebels who are already on course to match their output from a breakout 2020/21 season, but Head Coach Tom Sadler feels much more …
By Rachael Bland This is the goal. You want to be competing in these big moments as a player. At the start of the year, we said we wanted to be competing against the best, and we’ve put in the performances where it has counted to be here today, and hopefully we can inspire a community back …
By Kennedy Leonard The WBBL Cup Final … the one that eluded us last season due to something we couldn’t control and something that really doesn’t want to go away – Covid – but yet here we are, and we are ready and excited! This season has already been a whirlwind for us. Firstly, we qualified for …
By Jamie Thomas She’s played almost every minute of the Gloucester City Queens’ debut WBBL campaign thus far and Marlee Ball really has shown her mettle every time she has stepped on the court for Jay Marriott’s side. The WBBL debutants sit 10th in the standings at present, after a season hit with more disruptions …
By Jamie Thomas To lose two players the calibre of Abby Lowe and Ebony Horton the month of a major final isn’t ideal for the Newcastle Eagles, but Chris Bunten’s loss is Lee Davie’s and Vanessa Ellis’ gain, as Lowe and Horton moved on to new challenges with the Durham Palatinates and Sheffield Hatters respectively. …
By Jamie Thomas The Sevenoaks Suns have once again been an unstoppable force this season in the WBBL Championship and their captain Cat Carr has been at her irrepressible best throughout the reigning champions’ unbeaten start. Averaging a double-double and already having secured a ‘Player of the Month’ win this season, Carr appears to only …
By Jamie Thomas One of the WBBL’s all-time greats accomplished a major milestone on the weekend as Manchester Mystics floor general Georgia Jones bagged her 2,000th WBBL Championship point. A key part of the league since its inception in 2014, Jones became only the second player to complete the feat last weekend as she netted …
By Jamie Thomas Going into the biggest game of her season so far, Anna Lappenküper appears to be hitting her best form as she goes into this weekend’s WBBL Cup semi-final against the Newcastle Eagles off the back of an explosive 35-point performance in a vital win against the rolling Essex Rebels. The young German …
By Jamie Thomas Hearing the Head Coach of an as-yet-undefeated team in WBBL Championship action talk so frequently about getting even better is quite the statement. That is the yardstick that Vanessa Ellis is setting for the Sheffield Hatters as she confesses she’s pleased with the team’s start but expresses confidence that there is so …