The first new signing for the Archers this season is 19-year-old forward Lara Habling. Hungarian-born Lara transfers into Cardiff Met from the University of Chattanooga in Tennessee, USA, where she played in 11 games in her freshman season. Habling played in the 2019 FIBA U16 Women’s European Championship with Hungary, where she averaged 39-35-68 shooting […]
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Levi Warren, the longest-tenured active Archer now entering 9th season with the Archers, has signed for the 2022-23 season. Warren, the left-handed forward from Reading, has now featured in 148 games for the WBBL side across all competitions. On re-signing at Archers, Warren said, “There’s some really great young talent coming through, and the new
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Laura Shanahan has returned for an 8th WBBL campaign at Cardiff Met Archers. The Cardiff native will represent her home-town club, after previously featuring for Nottingham Wildcats in the pre-WBBL era, as well as Reading Rockets, Cardiff Clippers, Cardiff Celts, Wellingborough Phoenix, and Archers II. Shanahan has also featured for Wales in the 2022 3×3
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Beginning her second season with the Archers WBBL side, center/forward Carys Roy looks to build on her impressive first year and incredibly busy offseason. In her first year in the WBBL, Carys averaged 13 minutes per game with 3.5 PPG and 3.6 RPG, making great strides as she played behind Mara Marchizotti. Carys will look
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Returning for her second season of WBBL basketball at Cardiff Met, combo guard Issy Bunyan returns ready to build on an incredibly successful debut year. Bunyan is the exact prototype of modern basketball – length, shooting, athletic, defensive nightmare – and will be a key part of the Archers rotation this year. In her first
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2021-22 saw most club basketball return across the spectrum after the ‘elite-only’ restrictions in 2020-21, and international basketball was no different. We’re used to seeing plenty of Archers represent their countries, with our junior athletes leading the way and plenty of WBBL and National League Men’s players also receiving call-ups. This year saw a total
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Cardiff Sports Orthopaedics signs as WBBL sponsor. Cardiff Sports Orthopaedics, based at centres across Cardiff and south Wales, has re-signed as the main sponsor for our WBBL team for the 2022-23 season. Amongst the team of six high-level Consultants in Trauma & Orthopaedics is Stuart Roy, who has long been a supporter of the Archers
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James Dawe has been appointed as Head of Basketball at St David’s College. The former WBBL and NBL women’s coach, and current NBL D2 Men, BUCS Men, and U18 Men Head Coach, and Head of Men’s programme, will take over the new basketball academy on Ty-Gwyn Road. The academy will cater for both boys and
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Written by Archers staff Gwynne Walker, part of the Cardiff Met Archers National League wheelchair side, has been selected for the 2022 GB Invictus Games squad, set to take place in The Hague from April 16th to April 22nd. As a Club, we are very proud of Gwynne and his journey, and Rosie Williams, who
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The newest Cardiff Met Archers have been revealed, with 12 players set to feature for Cardiff Met in the first season of British Wheelchair Basketball’s new elite tournament, the Women’s Premier League (WPL). Four of the players are currently attending Cardiff Met, with eight of the 12-player roster having represented Wales and 10 in total with some form
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