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Four players from the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association will attend USPORTS nationals at the University of British Columbia later this month. Katelyn Power and Aliyah Fraser of the three-time Atlantic University Sport champion Saint Mary’s University Huskies of Halifax will be at UBC along with Allie McCarthy and Bailey Russell of the University of Ottawa...
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Two teams will represent the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association women’s basketball conference at this year’s national championship. We know one thing to be certain…St. Thomas University Tommies will definitely be going considering the Fredericton-based squad is hosting the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association championship in March at the Richard J. Currie Center. Which team will join...
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Nova Scotia’s capital city comes alive this weekend with basketball, basketball and more basketball on the docket. That includes numerous players who battled last season in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. Atlantic University Sport women’s basketball conference championship unfolds at Scotiabank Place with six teams seeking a championship and berth in the USPORTS final in...
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Editor’s Note: We are profiling players from the 2024 Maritime Women’s Basketball Association who are representing their universities and colleges in playoff action this week. Two players from the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association are continuing down the playoff road in their respective leagues from Quebec to New England. Emily McNeil is with the Bishop’s University...
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Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series highlighting players from last season in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association who are preparing for USPORTS and Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association championship runs. We begin with Ontario University Athletics: The Final Four is set. Without a doubt, when you’re undefeated entering the post-season, you’re considered the...
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The 2025 Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is awaiting some fine-tuning and cementing times, but all systems are go for the circuit’s fourth season. ‘All teams have the schedule and now it’s a matter of ensuring building availability and some other minor logistical operations,’ said MWBA commissioner, Jen McKenzie of Dartmouth, NS. ‘It’s never easy putting...
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Lauren Rainford is the reigning Maritime Women’s Basketball Association MVP after her stellar 2024 season with the Miramichi Hericanes. Rainford was a dominant MWBA player with the ‘Canes and returned to the University of Prince Edward Island for the 2024-25 Atlantic University Sport Women’s Basketball Conference season with the Panthers. She hasn’t taken her foot...
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By Renée Hartleib Saint Mary’s University Alumni Small, but mighty.  That’s how Saint Mary’s graduate Alaina McMillan BA’24—who stands at five foot six—describes herself. As the Huskies women’s basketball point guard from 2018-2024, her stats bear that out. She led the team to two championships and earned AUS all-star, AUS MVP, and Team MVP multiple...
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The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association expanded from six teams to seven last year. It had hoped there would be eight teams for the 2025 season, but the Town of Truro’s hopes to having an MWBA team fell through this week. That means the MWBA will begin finalizing its 10-game regular season schedule, but we do...
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It’s as big a rivalry as there is in Canadian sports. And two members of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s Fredericton Freeze are going to be in the thick of things. Both Allie McCarthy and Bailey Russell will be with the University of Ottawa Gee Gees as they play in the Capital Hoops Classic on...
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