{"id":17614,"date":"2020-10-23T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T03:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.draftcentral.com.au\/?p=17614"},"modified":"2020-10-23T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T03:36:43","slug":"wnbl-player-spotlight-southside-flyers-liz-cambage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wnbl-player-spotlight-southside-flyers-liz-cambage\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBL Player Spotlight – Southside Flyers – Liz Cambage"},"content":{"rendered":"

TO cap off this week\u2019s Player Spotlight series of the Southside Flyers, we focus on perhaps one of the biggest signings in recent WNBL history. The acquisition of Liz Cambage<\/strong> on August 18 echoed throughout not only the League, but also the country, as the nation welcomed back one of its prized athletes after Cambage spent two seasons away from the Australian basketball scene.<\/p>\n

Boasting an exemplary resume on all levels of basketball whether it be domestically or internationally the 29-year-old has logged quite the catalogue. A WNBL champion with the Bulleen Boomers back in the 2010\/11 campaign, the League MVP that same season and a three-time nominee to the WNBL\u2019s All-Star Five, Cambage has already proven herself on the local landscape.<\/p>\n

Returning from a five-year hiatus in the WNBA, Cambage re-iterated the notion that she is a world-class player following her signing with the Dallas Wings in 2018. After scoring a WNBA-record 53 points against the New York Liberty and maintaining a high-level of play for the duration of the season, Cambage received her first All-WNBA First Team selection, an All-Star nomination and led the League in points \u2013 arguably the best season of her career to date before moving to the Las Vegas Aces.<\/p>\n

But in a massive morning for Australian basketball, fans across the country reacted ecstatically to the news of Cambage returning to the league. Additionally, Cambage herself noted her eagerness<\/a> to join the Flyers having already played an abundance of time with the current roster on an international scale.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am really looking forward to playing for the Flyers in the WNBL this season. I know they had a great first year and I am keen to help the team go one better and win the Championship,\u201d Cambage said during the club\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will be great playing with a number of Opals teammates and of course our coach, Cheryl Chambers<\/em><\/strong>, who is an assistant coach with the Opals. Flyers captain Jenna O\u2019Hea<\/strong> is one of my favourites, she is also the Opals captain, she is like my captain on and off the court.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cambage does not only have professional ties to the club, but also a personal one as evident by the Flyers\u2019 owner Gerry Ryan<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s comments in Cambage\u2019s announcement, \u201cIt is exciting to welcome Liz home,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cI remember her playing for Dandenong in 2007 as a young up-and-coming star. It will be great to see her in action for Southside Flyers this season and I am sure it will be a real bonus for the WNBL.\u201d<\/p>\n

Coach Chambers was also quick to praise Cambage for the person she is and how much of a positive effect she will have on the rest of the side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re all so excited because she plays with such passion,\u201d Chambers said. \u201cWe\u2019re a bit disappointed that we\u2019re not going to have our crowd there because we thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to really grow our brand.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will still do it up in the \u2018bubble\u2019 and there is still certainly a buzz with her presence. When she walks in, she is just unique and she has got a big smile on her face, so we are all very excited,\u201d the Flyers\u2019 gaffer said.<\/p>\n

Cambage rounds out a star-studded line-up that contains numerous Opals and will certainly look to provide additional help down low in the post and on the defensive end. Less than three weeks remain until the season tip-off and the Flyers are chomping at the bit to make their return to the Grand Final at the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Picture:<\/strong> Fox Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TO cap off this week\u2019s Player Spotlight series of the Southside Flyers, we focus on perhaps one of the biggest signings in recent WNBL history. The acquisition of Liz Cambage on August 18 echoed throughout not only the League, but also the country, as the nation welcomed back one of its prized athletes after Cambage […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":17616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2871,2812,11],"tags":[3523,3539,342,3650,31,2495,2848,2067,1972],"class_list":["post-17614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-southside-flyers","category-wnbl","tag-australia-opals","tag-bulleen-boomers","tag-cheryl-chambers","tag-gerry-ryan","tag-jenna-ohea","tag-liz-cambage","tag-opals","tag-southside-flyers","tag-wnbl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}