Allie Berry is the new head coach of the Crandall University Chargers. Berry, a formidable force with the Moncton Mystics of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association, will take over the Chargers, preparing them for the 2023-24 Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association season. She will be joined by familiar faces. Jill Smith, who guided Crandall for five...Read More
Out of the blue came the call. Now, Sophia Widmeyer is wearing blue. Widmeyer, who recently finished her first Maritime Women’s Basketball Association season with the Halifax Hornets, was preparing to play her first professional season in Portugal this year, when a surprise call turned things around. ‘To be honest, it all came together very...Read More
Eva Widmeyer will wear new colours at the Atlantic University Sport level. Widmeyer, who played the 2023 Maritime Women’s Basketball Association season with the Halifax Hornets, has joined the Dalhousie University Tigers in Halifax. Head coach Tanya McKay made the announcement on Widmeyer, a transfer from AUS rival Acadia University Axewomen. She will enter the...Read More
The Maritime Women’s Basketball Association has been incredibly fortunate. Both Medavie Blue Cross (medaviebc.ca) and Royale (royale.ca) came to the forefront of the then fledgling MWBA in 2022, becoming founding partners of the six-team entity. Since then, many key leaders in the business world have come on board to help the MWBA or individual franchises....Read More
The Fredericton Freeze is preparing to enter its third season of Maritime Women’s Basketball Association competition. In a crowded sports community, the Freeze is starting to make some inroads in New Brunswick’s Capital City, providing a high level of competitive basketball while offering a family-friendly environment at its home games. With that in mind, the...Read More
L-R – Anna Lee LeBlanc, Katie Harding & Allie Dawe Anna Lee LeBlanc was taking notes in a class at the University of New Brunswick with a guest speaker who was brought in to talk to kinesiology students about the possibility of the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association coming into existence. She was taking notes...Read More
Four players from the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association and one coach competed at the recent Canada 3X3 Quest national championship in Toronto. The players and coach all played for Team New Brunswick. Lia St. Pierre, Kelsey McLaughlin and Jenna Jones from the MWBA’s Moncton Mystics joined league MVP Kaylee Kilpatrick from Saint John’s Port City...Read More
It is officially the off-season for the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association. That doesn’t mean crickets are filling the air. The MWBA will host its annual general meeting in the early fall to discuss 2023 and what is ahead for the league in 2024. That meeting will allow the league to update any constitutional changes, discuss...Read More
There were plenty of celebrations on the TD Station hardwood as the Maritime Women’s Basketball Association drew the curtain down on a remarkable 2023 season. The league’s second year of operation saw the Halifax Thunder complete a season to remember, capturing its first MWBA title and keeping the Legacy Cup in Nova Scotia. Last year’s...Read More
The Halifax Thunder and Port City Fog engaged in a Legacy Cup championship to remember. What a battle. In the end, the regular season champion Thunder capped a perfect season in style, downing the Fog, 102-93 in front of a Maritime Women’s Basketball Association attendance record 1,079 at TD Station in Saint John on Sunday....Read More
