Point guard, Sophie Kerridge, has signed on for NBL1 Central Season 2022 with the Norwood Flames Basketball Club. 22 year old Kerridge is a fast, dynamic guard that played her first year of NBL1 last year. An unassuming person, Sophie hails from Mildura and moved to Adelaide pre-Covid. Thinking that she was signing up for…
Norwood Signs Brooke Basham for NBL1 Season 2022! Brooke comes to us fresh off a season in which she averaged 18.8ppg, 2.7apg and 4.9rpg in 2021 NBL1. Her defensive ability also produced 1.7spg Basham is also currently signed with the Lightning for their 2021/22 season. This will be her 2nd WNBL season. A dynamic, scoring…
Alex Wilson, NBL1 All-Star 5 in 2021, Team MVP and super-star, has resigned with the Norwood Flames for season 2022! In 2021, Ally averaged 23.4 ppg, 10.3rpg and 5.8apg. She also posted 2 triple doubles on the season, narrowly missing out on 4 more. Her season high of 39 came against North Adelaide, scoring 30…
Shaun Pontifex, a 6’3 sharpshooter, has re-signed with Norwood for 2022. Ponti, as he is affectionately known around the club, is one of our main locker room and club culture guys in our NBL1 program. He plays the off-guard position. His elite shooting ability and basketball IQ are what sets him apart for his role…
Luca Barei has re-signed with the Norwood Flames for seasons 2022 & 2023. At 6’6 and with an ever-growing frame, the long guard will be looking to keep building on his progress from 2021. Barei is aspiring to play D1 college basketball and has this option on his radar also, with several schools showing interest.…
The Norwood Flames Men’s NBL1 Team are thrilled to announce the re-signing of Ray Harding for the 2022 & 2023 seasons! Ray Harding, a 6’6 wing has re-signed for 2 years with the Norwood Flames. Harding, at only 22 years old, forms part of a strong, young nucleus for the team to build upon into…
Norwood Basketball Club is thrilled to announce their signing of Head Coach Tim Odell for the 2022 NBL1 Central season. Tim is currently our U16 Boys Division 1 Coach and program leader, has been heavily involved in High-Performance State Team Programs for several years and also just received our Club Coach of the Year Award.…
Norwood Basketball Club is excited to announce the Head Coaches for our Division 1 U10-U21 teams for the 2022 season. Congratulations to the following coaches, we are extremely excited about the upcoming season! U10 Boys D1 – Kelly Sheedy U12 Boys D1 – Tom Macdonald U14 Boys D1 – Shaun Ryan U16 Boys D1 –…
A big roster spot has been confirmed, with the signing of 6’3 Centre, Alek Akuen for 2022. Alek joined the group midway through last season after spending 4 years playing College Basketball in the US. Akuen most recently played for the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Cougars in 2019-20. In the NBL1 2021 season, Alek put up 7.4ppg,…
The Norwood Flames Women’s team would like to announce the re-signing of Captain Genna Anderson for the 2022 season. Anderson had this to say: “The 2021 season was one that had an unfortunate ending but has only made myself and the team more eager to get to work and start the 2022 season how we…
Norwood is pleased to announce the signing of Terry-Jo McNamara as Head Coach for our NBL1 Women’s team for 2022. Terry took over as interim Head Coach last season and led the team to a 7-2 record, just missing out on finals basketball on the points spread. McNamara will be joined again by Matt Turnbull,…
With the 2021 NBL1 season now complete, we’d like to say a sincere thank you to all the volunteers who have generously contributed to the club over the past season. In particular, to the extremely generous families who have opened their homes and housed Mike, Ehra, Mozzie, CJ, Anthony & Derrick at various times over…
With the 2021 NBL1 season now in the books, we’d like to say a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has helped support the program and the club over the past year. It’s been a very challenging time with the significant Covid-19 interruptions impacting basketball in 2020 and 2021, and this season would not have…
Take part in our September School Holiday Basketball Skills Camp at The ARC with our superstar lineup of coaches! Suitable for Norwood Flames players U10-U18 of any division, these holidays we have: Wednesday 29th September 2021 Thursday 7th October 2021 In addition to the above dates, we are running an Adelaide Community Basketball Association (ACBA) camp…
At our recent AGM the following people were awarded life memberships of Norwood Basketball Club: Akos Nagy Andrew Webber Chris Ninnes David Tavian Donna Tavian Elizabeth Webber Graeme Rice Huba Nagy Phil Keenihan Steve Murray Tony Wright Norwood Basketball Club also created a new non-voting membership category – Playing and Coaching Life Members. This membership…
Join us these July School Holidays for our Basketball Skills Camp at the ARC! Suitable for Norwood Flames players U10-U18 of any division, these holidays we have: Tuesday July 6th 2021 Wednesday July 7th 2021 In addition to the above dates, we are running an Adelaide Community Basketball Association (ACBA) camp over 3 days that is also…
The Norwood Flames Women’s Team for season 2021 have completed their roster signings. Tara Girardi, Taylor Prenzler, Jaimi Rock, Alyce Thomas and Chloe Webley have been signed to fill the remaining spots in what is shaping up to be a really competitive team. Girardi provides size inside and is a future prospect player. She works…
Georgie Garrard, has signed with the Norwood Flames, transferring from Centrals. Georgie provides leadership, as well as a strong physical presence in the paint. Her interior game is compliment by her outside shooting. The ability for her to spot up and pick and pop will be key to the flames offence this season. Also a…
The men have finished off their roster with the final spots in the NBL1 squad going to: Luca Barei, Ryan Girardi, Ayden Janssan, Kaman Majok, Jordan Wilson, Nate Deer, Luke Perry, Daniel Barker and Shaun Pontifex! With these final signings, the Flames have created a balanced roster of youth and experience, size and strength and…
Norwood is nostalgically announcing the re-signing of our 3 OG’s: Matt Lycett, Daniel Webber & Andrew Webber! Andrew has clocked over 350 games for the red and blue, Daniel more than 250 and Matt Lycett enters his 9th official year on the roster. Unfortunately, Andrew suffered a season-ending ACL injury, but will still be involved…
The Norwood Flames are thrilled to announce the signing of Anthony Green for NBL1 2021! Green is a 6’10 big man from Quincy, Massachusetts – near Boston, USA. Anthony was a North-Eastern Huskie, who played 4 years NCAA Division 1 and lastly played for Básquet Coruña in Spain’s LEB Gold League (2nd Division). Green helped…
Norwood is pleased to announce the following players have re-signed for the NBL1 Central 2021 Season for our Women’s Team; Georgia Thomson, Aimee Herriman, Paige Keenihan and Chelsea Apacible. Thomson said: “I am proud to represent Norwood in the upcoming season. We have been putting in the hard work and I am keen to see…
Patty Mills and Indigenous Basketball Australia are looking for talented and passionate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children to represent their region in the Indigenous Community Basketball League (ICBL). This is a free program, and includes: FREE food on game days FREE sports kit with basketball and team jersey FREE inspiration and motivation sessions Trainings will be held…
Norwood is thrilled to announced the signing of WNBL and Adelaide Lightning star, Ally Wilson! Wilson is a 5’9 guard, who, as a 26 year old, now has 8 years WNBL experience after being signed as a development player at 16 years old. Ally was the 2014 WNBL Rookie of the Year and is also…