BNSW Staff

Maria is at the helm of Basketball NSW as our Chief Executive Officer. She has over 25 years’ experience as a Business leader, sales professional, and board member.

For the past 18 years, she has worked as a senior executive with a proven track record in successfully and consistently building high performing organisations and cultures. She achieved this through the use of both standard and innovative leadership methodologies, developing and leading high performing individuals and teams.

Her leadership style fosters a culture of trust and empowerment, resulting in improved staff retention and engagement. While Maria uses proven techniques for leadership and coaching, her work is anchored in the reality of day-to-day business demands and challenges.

Maria has extensive expertise in organisational and sales strategy development and execution consistently, delivering solid financial management, effective sales planning and execution, people and performance management and tactical marketing.

Maria’s signature leadership style drives transformation and change, whilst creating a culture of innovation and creativity.

Maria spends her free time on horse back or hiking through the hills, practising yoga and spending time with her family.

Caroline referes to herself as a stereotypical Scot, she is tight when it comes to cash and will keep a close eye on the $$$ being spent, from staples to apparel.  Fair to say that Caroline is not your normal accountant, she always looks for ways to explain numbers to non-numbers people.  Usually in the forms of graphs and gifs and using basic language – not everyone knows what a provision is!

With a solid background in community sport, Caroline can sympathise with the challenges and frustrations faced by small committees and boards who would rather just develop their sport rather than spend hours understanding and working on admin.  Just ask and Caroline can create tools to make sport administration easier.

Outside of work, Caroline can be usually seen on a sporting field and she loves to play and also officiate lacrosse.

With more than 20 years experience in basketball as a administrator, Geoff has been involved at levels of the game from starting as a referee at the Shoalhaven Basketball Stadium right through to work at both the State and National levels of the sport.

Geoff returned back to Basketball NSW in 2014 and now leads our Community Growth and Marketing Team, he strives to establish and maintain honest and meaningful interpersonal relationships with our associations.  He believes in empowering his team to achieve and focuses on a philosophy of no one is bigger than the game and that basketball is everyone’s game!

Better known as the Trip Advisor, Geoff’s other loves include photography and drinking coffee!

Debbie is a self-confessed basketball junkie, she absolutely loves the game!  With over 20 years experience in developing officials, her knowledge of the game is exceptional and is skilled right across all the technical elements of our game.

An effective and creative communicator, Debbie plays an integral and collaborative role in developing the game, her ethos of continuous learning is a perfect fit here at Basketball NSW.

Debbie is also the owner of the office mascot Charlie.

David has been involved with the sport of basketball at various times over the past 35 years. David joined the Basketball NSW ‘family’ after an lengthy and highly decorated career with the NSW Police.

Curtis has been coaching for 11 years as a Representative Coach & Development Officer, he has also coached NSW State Teams.

His family consists of his wife and five children- a modern day brady bunch.

Curtis is one of our newest members of staff and is excited to be apart of Basketball NSW and to be working as a full-time coach.

Sam has been coaching for 15 years, starting full time here at BNSW whilst completing his Bachelor of Applied Science (Health and Physical Education). Since graduating he has gone on to be Assistant Coach of the Townsville Crocodiles in the NBL, worked as the High Performance Head Coach of Queensland South and Southern Development Officer in Tasmania. Having gone full circle, Sam is excited to be back home as the Head Coach of High Performance – Metropolitan. Shooting Game ‘On the rack’

Jarrod is passionate about Australia, basketball and people. Hope to see the game one-day grow into a sustainable and well-oiled machine in Australia. 

Chanelle also works in our competitions department, during the season you’ll find her working with all of our country associations or going cross eyes, from the numerous court grids and draws that need to be completed for the five country junior leagues.

It’s fair to say that Chanelle has a competitive streak, but keeps it on the the down low so naturally competition (off court) arises between the competition department with Country v Metro.

In the off season Chanelle loves venturing out and exploring the world of ours, trying new things and always planning the next getaway.  Always on the hunt for  a last minute deal when it comes to getaways.

Antonio joins basketball NSW in the role of Coaching & Development Administrator after completing his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Sports Management abroad in the United States.

A lover of all things Sydney Roosters, Manchester United, Western Sydney Wanderers and or anyone else who rivals a team Jaylee supports.

When not at work Antonio is always found somewhere near a football (soccer) field as either a coach, a player, or just a spectator enjoying the game. Antonio is also a strong believer that it should be called football across Australia.

Adam has been a basketball referee for over 10 years, he has played the game for over 20 years and is now working on developing the game as on our of Technical Officials Development Officers.

Fait to say his life revolves around basketball!

On the court, everyone listens to him, at home…. Adam tells us NOBODY listens to him!

Away from basketball, he is the king of Golf Clash!  (Just don’t ask the kids)

Meet Rachel, our Inclusion Officer a member of the Community Growth team here at Basketball NSW.

Rachel is a great ambassador for the game of basketball, she has played at en elite level in Australia’s national competition for women, called the Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) where she played for numerous clubs from the AIS, Adelaide, Bendigo and Sydney Uni.

Rachel leads a number of our participation programs from I Am A Girl, I Can Do Anything! Wheelchair Basketball, Walking basketball, Basketball for Players with an Intellectual Disability, Rachel strongly believes and lives that basketball is a game for everyone.

Away from the office Rachel also volunteers her time as a freelance commentator and calls the home games for the Sydney Uni Flames in the WNBL.

Jaylee undertakes the role of Communications and Digital Media Officer, hailing from the University of Canberra Capitals WNBL media team.

A graduate a Bachelor of Sports Media from the University of Canberra, Jaylee is another staff member that lives and breathes sport and is a firm believer in equally for all female athletes.

She is the self-confessed ‘social media whizz’ and always has her phone no more than 30 centimetres away from her at all times in order to continuously update our members by tweeting or Instagramming all the latest news, events, pictures and everything else basketball.

You’ll find Jaylee in the winter months trying to stay warm as she cheers on her beloved NRL team, the Cronulla Sutherland Sharks at all their home and away games before the Sydney Kings & Sydney Sixers kick off their season in summer.

Ruth is our master of accounts receivable and payable; a super organised individual who is dedicated to her role.  A team player within the office and loves nothing better to ensuring that timelines are met and that all of our associations are treated with the utmost respect.

You’ll also find that Ruth is a fan of coloured folders, and loves her filing, her indexing methods range from simply writing names on folder tabs to computer-generated strip labels complete with names, numbers, color codes and much more.

I am a mother of two young children (3 if you include the husband) who has recently completed my CPA (certified practising accountant) studies.

I enjoy the challenge of complex reconciliations & continuous learning of different aspects of accounting.

In my downtime, I love keeping fit by heading to the gym where I love to smash out a HIIT class or outdoors with the family exploring wildlife on a bushwalk.

In the NRL season, you can find me either at Jubilee oval or WIN stadium cheering on my beloved St George Illawarra Dragons.

While not having played basketball since school PE, Amy knows how to throw and catch a ball from her involvement in netball. Don’t hesitate to remind her that she can dribble and move with the ball in Basketball if she forgets.  Having started playing sport at a young age she will give anything a go and is just a ‘bit’ competitive…

Amy’s passions, however, lie in having fun and increasing participation. She wants as many people to be active and get involved in the sport as possible.  With her involvement as a player, coach and umpire in numerous other sports you never know what hybrid activity she will throw at you on the court.

Hi I’m Charlie, the office mascot…

I don’t know much about basketball but I am the self-declared king on tipping winners, Paul the Octopus, may he rest in peace, he is my tipping spirit guide.

I have a wide range of interests, including eating cheese, chasing a ball, eating cheese, napping, running in wet grass and did I mention I like to eat cheese.

My idols include Grumpy Cat, Goofy and Simba, and Matt Dellavedova.