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Cardiff Met Archers vs Oakland Wovles, Women’s British Basketball League (WBBL) match on Saturday 18th March 2023. Game played at the Archers Arena, Cardiff Metropolitan University, in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom, during the 2022-23 season.
About the photograph.
The woman with the long ponytail on the floor, is the American born Lauren Saiki playing for Cardiff Met Archers. She had attempted to shoot the ball at the basket, but was knocked down by one of the two Oaklands Wolves players.
The ball had bounced off the basket, and was caught by her teammate, the Swiss born Shannon Hatch, seen here trying to shoot at the basket.
The basketball game finished with the final score of Archers 80 – 73 Wolves.
Many special thanks to Cardiff Met Archers staff, for allowing me to take the photographs from courtside.
About the teams.
The Wales based Cardiff Met Archers started in 1999, as a university basketball team. They have about 19 different teams, range from Under-10s to Seniors, and men’s teams as well as women’s teams.
The women’s senior team (seen here in the photograph) is the only team in a top-level elite franchise-based league. They joined the Women’s British Basketball League when it was first set up in 2014, and to date, are still in the WBBL.
The Oaklands Wolves is an English women’s basketball team based at Oaklands College, in St Albans, Hertfordshire. It was founded in 2009, and started playing in the professional level women’s basketball team from the 2016-17 season onwards.
The Oakland Wolves also includes a men’s team in the second tier National Basketball League.
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