The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association will crown its 2025 Pro*Line Stadium Series Legacy Cup champion in New Brunswick. Which city remains the mystery. This much is known, for sure. Fredericton Freeze will be unable to host the league’s Final Quartet. Facilities at the University of New Brunswick are booked for most of June. The Freeze...Read More
Bill Gibson has meant a ton to the Fredericton Freeze and the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association since inception in 2022. The work Gibson puts into his craft as livestream voice for the Freeze and MWBA did not go unnoticed. He was named a winner in the Sport New Brunswick Awards gala for outstanding media coverage...Read More
One of the original Maritime Women’s Basketball Association owners reached a remarkable milestone in Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association women’s basketball conference. Mark Forward reached the 300-win mark for his Mount St. Vincent University Mystics on Saturday. The Mystics gave Forward his milestone victory with a 63-49 win over Fredericton’s St. Thomas University Tommies. Forward is...Read More
The Mike MacKay Transformational Coaching Award recognizes outstanding Canadian coaches for their dedication and coaching leadership while developing competent, connected, competitive, confident future leaders with character. Two recipients will be selected annually, each receiving a $2,500 bursary, with one of the recipients being a female-identified coach working with female athletes. Former Maritime Women’s Basketball Association...Read More
(Files From Basketball Nova Scotia) One of the top players to lace up her sneakers in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is returning to the game at the grassroots level. Justine Colley-Leger of the reigning MWBA Pro*Line Legacy Cup champion Halifax Thunder has landed a new position with Basketball Nova Scotia. Colley-Leger, a Nova Scotia...Read More
Some familiar Maritime Women’s Basketball Association names are amongst the leaders – or sit atop the leaderboard – two weeks into the Atlantic University Sport season. Katie Butts of the University of New Brunswick Reds is off to a remarkable AUS start through four games with the 2-2 squad. Butts, who has spent two seasons...Read More
The Maritime Women’s Basketball League enjoys fan interaction and reaction to the product it puts on the floor. The MWBA, with seven teams finishing the league’s third season last summer, is always discussing innovative ideas to further enhance the game day and competitive spirit of women’s basketball. Former MWBA MVP Kaylee Kilpatrick, who starred for...Read More
Two players from Nova Scotia-based Maritime Women’s Basketball Association teams earned victories in Europe over the weekend. Elizabeth Iseyemi and her BAD Heidelberg team improved to 4-0 in the Germany-2.Bundsliga circuit, downing Rhein-Main, 82-46. Iseyemi, who was a first team MWBA all-star last season, played 18 minutes. She had eight points, five rebounds and two...Read More
Some seasons have started, some are ready to unfold this week. That means there’s plenty of players from last year’s Maritime Women’s Basketball Association rosters who are suiting up wearing their university colours for 2024-25. We’ll keep tabs on the many players who play post-secondary and played during the MWBA’s 2024 season. We’ll start at...Read More
