MWBA Commits to Off-Season Partnership Recruiting!

Anxious? Ya got that right. The doors opened at Moncton Harrison Trimble High School on a Sunday afternoon back in April of 2022. Would anyone come through those doors was the question. The scene was set as the first-ever Maritime Women’s Basketball Association game, a pre-season outing, but hometown Moncton Mystics were preparing to face...Read More

They came along at exactly the right time. And found almost immediate success. The City of Miramichi loves basketball and the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association has been welcomed with open arms. It was four years ago the Fredericton Freeze and Port City Fog of Saint John played a pre-season game at Miramichi Valley High School....Read More

The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association was purring along with six teams. Six teams through the 2022 and 2023 seasons. It was Fredericton Freeze, Halifax Hornets, Halifax Thunder, Moncton Mystics, Saint John’s Port City Fog and Lake City 56ers of Dartmouth/Cole Harbour/Preston. The letterhead became busier in 2024 when the Miramichi HerIcanes launched. And, then, last...Read More

What’s in a name? Plenty. Let’s see, there was the Fredericton Bandits, Fredericton ThunderCats, Fredericton Fire, Fredericton Polar Bears and probably a few more that ended up in the circular file. Naming a team is never easy, but the Fredericton Freeze became reality in 2021 and entered the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association as part of...Read More

Welcome to Day II of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s new awareness campaign. Today we bring you to a unique organization. It’s the only squad in the eight-team MWBA that calls three different centres home. Nova Scotia’s Lake City 56ers represent Dartmouth, Cole Harbour and Preston and proudly call all three centres home. The 56ers...Read More

The #WeAreHere MWBA off-season campaign continues with the re-introduction of the Fog, established in Port City (Saint John, NB). The Port City Fog are one of the few inaugural MWBA teams and have appeared in one final in their history. Being an inaugural and staple part of the organization, they drew the biggest crowd in...Read More

 The Moncton Mystics have been a Maritime Women’s Basketball Association staple since inception in 2022.  Moncton hosts one of the league’s best game-day events and is also busy in the community under the direction of general manager and founder, Shannon Parlee, her invaluable operations manager Judy Vautour and a cast of volunteers.  That includes the...Read More

The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is an incredibly proud entity. Proud of what is has accomplished over five seasons of competition, proud of its Maritime roots. There are eight teams in the MWBA, four in Nova Scotia and four in New Brunswick. All with distinct characteristics from big city to smaller town. Doesn’t matter. Women...Read More

Returning home and playing under a familiar coach was a recipe for Sashaneil Dabb to make a change. The former University of New Brunswick Reds’ forward has left the reigning Atlantic University Sport champions and landed with the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association’s Mount St. Vincent University Mystics in her home city of Halifax. The move...Read More