Shooting The Breeze Series 3: Recent Episodes
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In this BONUS episode we take a moment to reflect on a massive Series 3. We highlight some memorable takeouts in what was a wide range of guests where we explored beyond our shores to Britain, Morocco and to our trans Tasman friends in NZ shaking things up and motivating us to step it up. Let’s not forget the people behind the scenes, sports agents, broadcasters, fans and our community legends at the grassroots.Hosts’ Paul Camillos and Jacinta Govind call a 3x3… 3 pods each and one! Podcasts from Series 3 that left an impression and stayed with us.There’s not an episode or guest that hasn’t left a mark and helped us better understand this amazing sport and the basketball community. We’re so grateful to our guests for sharing their stories and letting us in to their world… and most of all to all our pod listeners for listening and supporting the pod.Series 4 is coming soon. Stay tuned… in the meanwhile if you haven’t already go back and listen to these pods - links below. Drop us a line and share what you like, we love to hear feedback it means alot to us and our guests.Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on our socials - Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepodQuick links for podcasts covered above:S3 Ep54: https://apple.co/3eFv7xPS3 Ep63: https://apple.co/3t4rHwpS3 Ep68: https://apple.co/3KO2HzOS3 Ep69: https://apple.co/3EBGgeYS3 Ep70: https://apple.co/3F0WGxAS3 Ep73: https://apple.co/3NtVaHBS3 Ep77: https://apple.co/3tJj9Lk
In our final Episode for Series 3 we go behind the scenes and talk womens voices in hoops and sports.Selected for the inaugural FIBA She Calls Game, Julia Montesano is no slouch on the mic. She’s called AFL to Basketball since she was a teen in Melbourne and is ramping up for the FIBA Womens World Cup in Sydney this September where she will call play by play alongside some heavy weights in the sporting commentary world.As part of the innovative Making The Call initiative to help amplify womens voices in sport, Julia has been flexing her vocal muscle and enjoying a little play by play hoops hustle. She takes us behind the scenes in her first WNBL gig alongside veterans such as Lori Chizik and Jenni Screen.Also recently calling this years AFLW draft and with the AFLW season soon to kick off she hopes to have a lasting impact in getting other women to step up to the mic and change the media landscape.Stay tuned for a surprise guest that jumps on with all the feels of women supporting women in the sporting world. We’re so here for it!Listen up as Julia talks us through the new game in town. Enjoy!Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepod
In this episode passionate NZ Hoops fan and PhD researcher Linden Moore hailing from Pleasanton in the Bay Area of Northern California is doing her doctorate around NZ women’s basketball at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT).Linden is currently on the ground in Auckland and living the dream of following the new historic Tauihi Aotearoa League in its first season and its impact amongst locals and hoops fans that have waited too long for this groundbreaking , pay parity women’s league.She gives us an overview of the teams, the coaches and the players in an episode recorded on the eve of the the first game held in Christchurch at a packed Cowles Stadium between home team Mainland Pouakai and Southern Hoiho.Then we slip into WNBL Free Agency and get into the ‘oh so slow drip feed of WNBL signings’ since our last update. Grab a warm cuppa and enjoy!!Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepod
In this episode Jade Melbourne only 19 years of age is vying for a return to the Opals squad for the FIBA Womens World Cup. She’s repped the Green & Gold in junior ranks but no one can forget her enthusiasm when she burst onto the Opals squad at the FIBA Asia Cup in Jordan earlier this year.She’s the real deal in hoops passion, and her speed and agility was something to see at the recent Japan friendlies against the hugely talented Tokyo Silver Medallists. Recently drafted to Seattle Storm - a Mecca for Aussie talent, Jade will delay WNBA training camp as she continues to develop her game in NBL1 at the Ballarat Miners and in her return to the UCCaps next season.It’s a fun podcast with Jade as we tap into that enthusiasm and how it impacts fellow team mates and fans. Her desire to learn and deeply engage no matter how many minutes she’s on the court will propel her Basketball IQ beyond her years much like her 2 basketball idols renowned for their hoops smarts (listen out for that one).We cover it all, from a gruelling WNBL season to Opals, WNBA and the drive that defines her and her approach to the game.We hope you enjoy this one as much as we did!Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepod
Josie Taoi, a Sydney hooper of Fijian descent is the founder of a grassroots program that’s paying it forward - Promote The GOAT “PTG”.Sharing her story of faith and personal conviction in founding PTG she tells us how using and promoting basketball to not only showcase the diversity, can also create teachable moments in her hoops community program to help kids become happier, healthier and more confident.Josie founded PTG in 2019 and has only recently began to include herself in their social media ‘hype’ campaigns alongside many of the young talented hoopers she coaches. A female trailblazer working tirelessly behind the scenes Josie understands by sharing her story others will understand why Promote The GOAT is needed and how it impacts not only her community but the many others looking for a program like this.She wants to support those young kids that were like her "…if only I had someone that said I believe in you if only I had someone that understood the pathways."Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepod
In our eponymous episode we’re quite literally Shooting the Breeze on whats happening in Womens Hoops!We Look at the WNBL and how they’ve stepped up communicating to the fans with an early look at pre-season and season dates as well as free agency.With a lot of developments in club ownership and new Head Coaches announced in recent weeks, the player signings in the off season were slow to start but look to be ramping up!And of course the huge hoops event hurtling towards us is the FIBA Womens World Cup, with just over 100 days until we witness this global spectacle we have final groups locked in after tumultuous political events in recent months banning Russia and most recently the only African nation Nigeria has bowed out.After we taped this episode the Womens World Cup Schools Program was launched: https://schools.womensworldcup.basketballoffering resources to teachers in Term 3 as well as discounts for excursions so that schools kids can enjoy the worlds best Womens Hoops!Enjoy!
In this episode, Stranger Things: Opals and Japan, our hosts Paul Camillos and Jacinta Govind talk about the recent 3 game series between Australia and Japan in Sydney and Newcastle.The Akatsuki Five won the series 2-1 where several Opals players debuted in the Green and Gold. It was a thriller of a series, fast paced, closely contested and no doubt both teams will be analysing and adjusting as they get ready for the Women’s World Cup this September in Sydney.The young and enthusiastic Opals squad had completed their first game when the pre-Olympic drama between Liz Cambage and the Nigerian Team was publicly revealed in a detailed article by Matt Logue. Strange times for our Opals but one we hope they can emerge from stronger, more hopeful and united on the road to the FIBA Women’s World Cup.Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepod
We talk with one of the leagues most seasoned players Britt Smart, having played nearly 2 decades in both Europe and the WNBL Britt shares some of the secrets to her fitness, longevity and movement that also provides the x-factor in her coaching business bsmartbasketball.comShe recently re-signed with the UCCapitals, having been awarded the Players’ player last season Britt gives us a look into what makes the team click. The team defied many obstacles last season to push through and make it to playoffs only to have it cut short - she opens up about the difficulty and frustration felt when their finals run was extinguished at the tail end of the season where there was no wriggle room left for Covid recovery.Despite their challenges it’s clear that Britt and the team feel there is unfinished business, with former assistant, now Head Coach, Kristen Veal at the helm for next season it promises to be a thriller.Enjoy!Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepod
Our first Aussie Paralympian guest is Amber Merritt aka ‘BAM’ (and yes there is a story to that one), joins us on the eve of the Asia-Oceania Champs in Thailand that are also the qualifiers for World Champs taking place later this year in Dubai.It’s a blast of a podcast as Amber shares her journey as an athlete with a less visible disability with grace and humour. We hear about the tremendous legacy of the Aus Gliders, medalling at Worlds and Paralympics in her younger years as well as the tumultuous changes coming from classifications for wheelchair basketball and years of COVID interruptions having an impact on the trajectory of the team.Amber is a legend herself, a veteran and compassionate leader that is hugely excited for the future of wheelchair basketball and how she's been an inspiration for others, perhaps her greatest joy has been that impact which she poignantly shares.Next up is the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where wheelchair basketball makes it’s first appearance and will be played in the fast paced 3x3 format! Strap in - it’s a barrel of laughs as we get to know what makes her tick!Enjoy!Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepod
An absolute ripper of a pod with the Head of the WNBL Christy Collier-Hill. Moving across from her role as General Manager for the Melbourne Boomers to help the WNBL get to the level it deserves to be at. With the explosive growth of other codes in women's sports we get real on whats needed for the WNBL to rise to the challenge.Christy shares her vision and dreams, acknowledging there's a long way to go to rebuild trust with fans and is open on some of the challenges facing the league. We hope this is the beginning of a new trajectory for the WNBL.Enjoy!Don’t forget to like, share and leave a review so we can get more Hoops content to you!Join us on Twitter: @TheBreezePod and IG: @shootingthebreezepod