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Mandurah Basketball Press Release

Mandurah Basketball Association are excited to announce our collaboration with Scorers Academy to deliver player and coach development for the Magic’s WABL and High-performance program. This alliance paves the way for Mandurah’s youth to access elite coaching and facilities, positioning Mandurah to take junior representative basketball to the next level.

Two time Olympian and Basketball WA Hall of Fame member, Fiona Hannan is the Director and Head Coach of Scorers Academy and is moving to Western Australia to reopen the Elite Basketball Facility previously managed by Shoot Zone in Halls Head.

Fiona has been engaged as the High-Performance Manager for Mandurah Basketball Association, providing elite coaching and development of our junior athletes and WABL coaches. This partnership with Scorers Academy brings specialty, professional junior coaching to the Peel region and provides much needed venue access for the Association’s elite pathway training, with sessions to be delivered on courts in the state-of-the-art facility, expected to reopen in the first week of September.

‘We are thrilled to have a professional of Fiona’s calibre as our High-Performance Manager’, Mandurah Basketball General Manager Brent Barclay said. ‘Fiona has demonstrated results at State, National and International level, having her lead our program direction positions us fantastically to improve our athletes and continue to grow as an organisation’.

Fiona has a background as a professional player of 18 years including winning a Bronze medal with the Opals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and is a former Captain of both the WNBL Perth Lynx (Breakers) and Canberra Capitals. Fiona is a two-time MVP of the NBL1 (SBL) and 30 years later still holds the single game scoring record of 60 points.

Fiona has been coaching professionally for the last 15 years including as a state team coach, mentor coach or state team selector in WA, Victoria, ACT and Queensland. Fiona and her husband Andrew coached NBL1 Women at Southwest Metro Pirates and Sunshine Coast Phoenix in Queensland and established Scorers Academy over the last five years in Canberra working with more than 2,000 athletes, three of whom have now represented Australia in Junior National teams.

‘I am really excited to partner with Mandurah Basketball Association and bring elite junior development programs home to the state where I was born and played all my junior basketball. I am a proud WA Country girl and consider Collie my hometown.

We are also very pleased to keep a first class basketball venue open to the local Mandurah Magic community by reopening the Halls Head Venue. We will be offering members access to the venue to shoot around, scrimmage, use the gym and our shooting machines anytime between 6am and 9pm – 7 days per week. Our membership packages will be out soon!’