{"id":25691,"date":"2021-12-02T20:05:13","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/?p=25691"},"modified":"2021-12-02T20:05:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T10:05:14","slug":"wnbl-2021-22-season-preview-uc-capitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wnbl-2021-22-season-preview-uc-capitals\/","title":{"rendered":"WNBL 2021\/22 Season Preview &#8211; UC Capitals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>THE 2021 Women&#8217;s National Basketball League (WNBL) returns on December 4, meaning it is time for our season previews to begin. Today is the UC Capitals, who finished third in 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><u>Team<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2020 Finish: <\/strong>3rd<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recruits:<\/strong> Alexandra Bunton (return from retirement), Shanice Swain, Alicia Froling, Kelly Wilson (return from maternity leave), Britt Sykes (WNBA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Squad list:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"405\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/brittany-smart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brittany Smart<\/a><br><a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"8422\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/mikaela-ruef\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mikaela Ruef<\/a><br><a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"406\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/tahlia-tupaea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tahlia Tupaea<\/a><br><a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"437\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/jade-melbourne\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jade Melbourne<\/a><br><a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"554\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/abby-cubillo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abby Cubillo<\/a><br>Gemma Potter <br><a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"364\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/kelly-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly Wilson<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"366\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/kelsey-griffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelsey Griffin<\/a>&nbsp;<br>Alexandra Bunton &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Bronte Clark&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"8420\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/alicia-froling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alicia Froling<\/a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Casey Samuels &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Shanice Swain <br>Britt Sykes <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being bundled out of the first week of the finals last time around, the UC Capitals will be hoping to avoid history repeating itself by making a run further into the finals this coming season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Capitals have had a very active off season recruiting wise. They have a lost a lot of talent and experience, but gained plenty in return. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although<strong> Keely Frolling<\/strong> has departed alongside <strong>Marianna Tolo<\/strong> and <strong>Maddy Rocci<\/strong>, her twin <strong>Alicia<\/strong> is among the Capitals\u2019 recruits for the upcoming season. LA Sparks guard <strong>Britt Sykes<\/strong> is Canberra\u2019s import, while <strong>Shaneice Swain<\/strong> also joins the Capitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>WNBL games record holder <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"364\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/kelly-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kelly Wilson<\/a> returns after having a baby, while <strong>Alexandra Bunton<\/strong> has also come out of retirement, after she retired in 2019 on the end of a horrible run with injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First up, they face the Sydney Uni Flames this coming Sunday. There will be extra spice in the clash, as it will be a battle of the Froling twins, Keely and <a data-type=\"player\" data-id=\"8420\" class=\"_dc_spo\" href=\"\/basketball\/player\/alicia-froling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Alicia<\/a>. Since both sisters are at new sides this season, they will both will be desperately hoping to impress and beat their sibling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Will the Capitals be able to go that little step further this season and make the last dance or even win the title? 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Team 2020 Finish: 3rd Recruits: Alexandra Bunton (return from retirement), Shanice Swain, Alicia Froling, Kelly Wilson (return from maternity leave), Britt Sykes (WNBA) Squad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10000,"featured_media":13110,"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":[2871,5886,11],"tags":[2175,1969,46,563,170,172,2000,5902,232,391,1972],"class_list":["post-25691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-season-preview","category-wnbl","tag-abby-cubillo","tag-alicia-froling","tag-brittany-smart","tag-jade-melbourne","tag-kelly-wilson","tag-kelsey-griffin","tag-mikaela-ruef","tag-season-preview","tag-tahlia-tupaea","tag-uc-capitals","tag-wnbl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691","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\/10000"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25691"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25955,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25691\/revisions\/25955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/central.rookieme.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}