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
Go ahead, ask Shelby MacIsaac what she does in her spare time. Well, she has to sleep, but that’s about the only thing interfering with a busy schedule Handling multiple projects is what drives MacIssac. The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association will find out just how talented and driven the Riverview, NB, native is. A fourth-year...Read More
The 2025 Maritime Women’s Basketball Association is months away. That doesn’t mean the work toward Year IV is heading into winter hibernation. Far from it. The MWBA features seven teams including four in New Brunswick and three in Nova Scotia. A schedule with seven teams – based on last year following expansion with the Miramichi...Read More
The evolution of Emily Briggs has been a study in perseverance, dedication and commitment to the game of basketball. And, more importantly, the game of life. From a shy New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletic Association star with Florenceville-Bristol’s Carleton North High Stars, Briggs has grown in leaps and bounds as she continues to make her mark...Read More