MWBA Launching New Website Very Soon!

The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association will continue its push toward team and roster sustainability for its 2027 season. A year ago, the eight-team MWBA introduced a new rule allowing players in their graduating year of high school to compete. Each team was allowed to carry three graduating seniors on their rosters. Teams did not have...Read More

The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is in the midst of its busiest off-season since the league opened in 2022. All in preparation for Year VI which is slated to begin in late April of 2027. The MWBA will hosts its annual general meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 27. All teams will be represented along with the...Read More

She has been with the Moncton Mystics and the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association since day one. A constant source of help, imagination and drive with Moncton general manager, Shannon Parlee. And it hasn’t just been the Mystics for Judy Vautour. A lifetime of giving back and helping the Moncton sporting community has certainly been a...Read More

As the crow flies – it would be a fatigued crow upon conclusion of that trip – the City of Coimbra in Portugal is some 5,000-kilometres from the Maritimes. The region does indeed attract Canadian tourists, looking for something different and hitting popular locations such as Lisbon, Porto and Braga. Coimbra is Portugal’s fourth largest...Read More

The Maritimes have proven to be a hotbed of basketball. That will come to fruition once again next March when the U SPORTS women’s and men’s basketball championships unfold March 11 to 14 at Scotiabank Centre in the heart of the Nova Scotia capital. Host Acadia University Axewomen and Dalhousie University Tigers will welcome opposition...Read More

Players need their rest. The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association agrees. The league has announced its latest partner, bringing InnVest Hotels into the fold as the Preferred Hotel Partner of the MWBA. ‘We are pleased to continue our commitment to supporting the MWBA and women’s basketball across Atlantic Canada,” said Saverio Gioffre, National Sales Manager at...Read More

The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association isn’t fooling around this off-season. In fact, you could say the MWBA is cracking. Okay, that may have been predictable, but the MWBA is anything but in its pursuit of corporate entities for its 2027 season. The eight-team has signed a deal with Egg Farmers of New Brunswick. Egg Farmers...Read More

Basketball is a small world. One minute you’re thinking one thing, next minute a contact from the past can help change your mind. Exactly what happened to Courtney Cain-Nordin this past season. Cain-Nordin was fully preparing to play her third season in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. She had chosen to remain in the Halifax...Read More

When the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association launched in 2022, a number of professional players who had continued their careers in Europe, found their way into the then fledgling league. Names such as former MWBA MVP Kaylee Kilpatrick, Ali Berry, Hannah Brown, Vanessa Pickard, Haley McDonald and more appeared amongst the names of those who had...Read More