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Team Photo: Auckland Deaf Society Women Basketball, 2000

AUCKLAND DEAF SOCIETY WOMEN BASKETBALL, 2000. Competitions Played in 2000: ADS Basketball Team Club Competition at UNITEC, Summer Basketball League 1999-2000, Summer Basketball League 2000-2001. Auckland ‘A’: Winner of Peter Murray Cup, 3^rd New Zealand Deaf Basketball Championships. Beat Canterbury 66-55, Beat Auckland ‘B’ 155-12. Auckland ‘B’: Third Place, 3^rd New Zealand Deaf Basketball Championships. Lost to Canterbury, Lost to Auckland ‘A’ 12-155. Northern: Winner of ‘Otago Deaf Society’ Cup. Women Basketball Interclub 2000 at New Zealand Deaf Games. Beat Central 51-48. Team Coding: [C] ADS Basketball Team (Club Competition, [A] Auckland ‘A’ Team (3^rd National Deaf Basketball Championships), [B] Auckland ‘B’ Team (3^rd National Deaf Basketball Championships), [N] Northern Team (New Zealand Deaf Games).

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NZSL story – Taonga source: Susie Ovens

Susie on the Rise of Deaf Women’s Basketball

Susie recalls becoming intrigued while watching the first women’s basketball games at the 1981 World Deaf Games in Köln. Inspired, she teamed up with Rae Oxspring to form an Auckland women’s team in time for the Labour Weekend Sports Convention. Back then, during Rae’s time, it was referred to as ‘netball’. The first competition for the newly created Otago Cup was held in Dunedin, and Auckland won that inaugural trophy. It marked the beginning of a marvellous era – with seven women’s teams competing! Susie fondly remembers one tense match against Christchurch, where an Auckland player accidentally wore a hearing aid. Auckland won the match – and only then did Christchurch raise a protest. Susie laughs, saying it was a bit cheeky: “Why wait until after losing to complain?”

Akiko Murozono

Hayley Jackson

Janet Martin

Karla Smith

Katherine Figure (Topia)

Katherine Figure (Topia)

Lisa Alexander

Lorraine Butler (Waghorn)

Lorraine Butler (Waghorn)

Marjorie Rako

Mark Siviter

Nelly (Nellie) Elisara

Nelly (Nellie) Elisara

Nirvana Graham

Sapphire Ualesi (Tenboom)

Sapphire Ualesi (Tenboom)

Sara Pivac Alexander

Sara Pivac Alexander

Sarah Folomu

Sonia Pivac

Susie (Suzanne) Ovens

Susie (Suzanne) Ovens

Teresa Babich

Ursula Thynne Becroft

Ursula Thynne Becroft

Victoria Lessing (Skorikova)

Victoria Lessing (Skorikova)

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