A former Maritime Women’s Basketball Association player is one of two individuals to earn the inaugural Mike MacKay Transformational Coaching Award from the Canada Basketball Foundation. Nova Scotia’s Jalynn Skeir joins Manitoba’s Ashley Hoitlink in the award circle, aimed to promote and strengthen basketball leadership and culture while celebrating diverse and inclusive leaders in delivering...Read More
The move is complete. There is new geography in the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. After two seasons of play in Windsor, NS, the MWBA team known as the Edge is moving to Halifax Regional Municipality, embracing the Dartmouth, Cole Harbour and Preston region. The re-located franchise will be known as the Lake City 56ers. There...Read More
Chris Larsen has been around the block. Many community blocks, in fact. As the president of Sports and Entertainment Atlantic – and its recognizable acronym S|E|A – Larsen did a double take when he first caught wind of what was then the fledgling Maritime Women’s Basketball Association back in 2021. The MWBA was in its...Read More
The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association has created numerous memories, helped send three players to professional leagues across the pond, attracted thousands of fans watching live or on streaming services. Games have been won, games have been lost, friendships have been made. And while you often look at final results of games, the scores become blurred...Read More
Anna Lee LeBlanc could use an extra hour in a day. Heck, how about an extra two hours? Busy? Yes. But she has a unique ability to multi-task and juggle numerous commitments, sometimes with a moment of notice, LeBlanc moves swiftly. Her latest move? Well, that’s something she wasn’t expecting. LeBlanc, a remarkably talented and...Read More
Jen McKenzie sat in a nearly empty Halifax gymnasium a number of years ago. After watching a high-level women’s basketball game during a summer tournament, McKenzie and a crew of observers talked about the need for something, something more than just a weekend of serious competition once or twice a year. A few years later,...Read More
After a three-year commitment to help establish the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association, the only commissioner the league has ever known is moving on. Tasia McKenna, a native of Timberlea, NS, and former star point guard with Lakehead University Thunderwolves in Ontario, was part of the startup of the six-team league. She presided over two seasons...Read More
Tiffany Reynolds of the Halifax Thunder has had a solid few months of winning. Not long after helping the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s Thunder to a Legacy Cup championship in June, Reynolds helped her Tipitapa squad to a professional title in Nicaragua. Playing her first pro season, Reynolds and Tipitapa swept Real Esteli in three...Read More
Quite a moment for Reese Baxendale. The guard with University of New Brunswick scored her 1,000th Atlantic University Sport women’s basketball conference point, helping the Reds to an eventual 84-62 over host St. Francis Xavier University X-Women in Antigonish, NS. Baxendale, out of Apohoqui, NB, scored 984 of those points with the University of Prince...Read More
Jessice Keripe scored seven points and earned 18 minutes of floor time to help Toronto Metropolitan University Bold to a 76-65 win over over British Columbia’s University of Victoria Vikes on Friday. Bold is hosting its own tournament this weekend. Keripe, who played with the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association’s Port City Fog of Saint John,...Read More
