Culture of Basketball Round-Up : Edition # 104

Lay-Up Youth Basketball

June 11th, 2024

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This week’s quick hits 🔥

Watch 📺 - Join Micaëlla Riché as she shares her journey from professional life to Director of Basketball Operations, take in the CHJS discussion on mental health and coaching and gain insight from Sue Bird on increased investment in professional women's sports.

Listen 🎙️ - Hear from Hanna Hall on her journey from the Canadian Women’s National team to life after sport, tune into the “Our Game” podcast discussing sports and mental health and tap in with our 3x3 Women's National Team about their Olympic aspirations.

Read 📖 - Check out Canada Basketball’s spotlight on Lay-Up’s approach to the future of access to basketball, get up to date with HoopQueens on the third season coinciding with the lunch of WNBA Toronto and learn firsthand about why women’s basketball is ready to ‘reintroduce themselves’.

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“Now that the proof's in the pudding, it's really a wonderful conversation to have but it does go beyond that and I think the investment in Women's Sports the way I see it we're not going anywhere! Little girls are going to play sports forever and they're going to grow up to become women who will continue to play sports!”

~ Sue Bird

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Episode 1: Kacie Bosch & Paige Crozon (3x3 Women's National Team)

Listen to this episode from Our Game on Spotify. Welcome to "Our Game," a Canada Basketball podcast. This summer & beyond, we will bring you conversations with our athletes across different teams to give listeners insight into the life of a Canadian basketball athlete.

‎The Rooted Athlete Podcast: EP65 - Confidence Does Not Equal Self-Worth | Hanna Hall, Former Pro Basketball Player

After dreaming of playing on the Canadian National team her whole life and years and years of hard work, dedication, blood, sweat, and tears, she did it! Yet, she decided a few years back to hang up the jersey and has done a lot of reflecting and unwinding of her habits and mindsets as an athlete.

‎Eighty Percent Mental: 2.14 - Mental Health and Wellbeing in Sport

‎Show Eighty Percent Mental, Ep 2.14 - Mental health and wellbeing in sport - 1 Feb 2022

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Lay-Up Youth Basketball is Making Basketball More Accessible and Removing Barriers

Lay-Up eliminates the barriers that could prevent youth from getting involved with the sport by creating a gym for all skill levels, from the kid who has never picked up a basketball to the former player who is now working on transitioning to the coaching or officiating side of things. 

What the WNBA’s arrival in Toronto means for HoopQueens

Basketball has always been an expression of joy for Toronto native Nakissa Koomalsingh but as she prepares to kick off the third season of the grassroots women’s league she spearheads, there’s a feeling of gratitude.

WNBA Expands to Canada with Toronto Selected as the League's 14th Team - WNBA

The WNBA announced today that it has expanded to Canada by awarding Toronto an expansion team, the league’s first outside the United States.

Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves | By Chiney Ogwumike

From being the target of jokes, to putting up juggernaut numbers. Women’s basketball is shining.

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