Logan Thunder Junior Ashley Taia will return for the Bendigo Bank Logan Thunder Women in the 2022 basketball North season.
Ashley averaged 12.7 points, 1.6 assists , 3.2 points in 2021 and lead the Bendigo Bank Logan Thunder women to the inaugural NBL1 North Championship.
Ashley has played 47 senior representative games for Logan Thunder and has won two senior representative championships in 2020 and 2021, and previously has played for the Adelaide Lightning and Canberra Capitals.
She is also an active member of the New Zealand Tall-Ferns Squad and attended the 2021 FIBA Asia Cup Qualifiers with Thunder teammate Chevannah Paalvast.
“I started playing basketball 20+ years ago with Mik at Logan and never won a State Championship so to finally achieve that with this club kind of means everything to me,” Ashley says.
“I had some of my first wins and losses at Logan Basketball as a 5 year old playing miniball so to still be competing at a high level with the same team and finally win, that’s all you can ask for.”
“I think we just need to continue with the path we’re on. We have an amazing coaching and support staff as well as an extremely deep and versatile squad who are dedicated to working for another championship season. We go at it in practice and compete against the best everyday, which is each other, so we can only get better and stronger as a team and a family.”
