2021 Hall of Fame Inductee – Player
Honoured posthumously, Maureen Elphinston’s impact in the history of in New South Wales basketball has been significant from the time she first competed in the sport in 1959.
As a member of the Barbarians, the Arncliffe Scots, Canterbury-Bankstown and Bankstown women’s teams, she won over ten New South Wales championships between 1964 and 1975. And she had a tremendous representative career for her state, appearing in no fewer than nine national championship tournaments for New South Wales between 1959 and 1971, winning national crowns in 1966 and 1967. In 1967 she achieved the ultimate, playing for Australia at the Women’s World Championships in Czechoslovakia.
Her playing career ended in 1971, but she was not lost to basketball, becoming involved in a wide variety of roles encompassing many different aspects of the sport she loved so much. She was the inaugural NSW junior women’s secretary, a member of the NSW women’s committee and NSW Miniball committee, a NSW selector for junior women for seven years and an assistant coach for NSW junior women. Her work as a volunteer and with junior men and women over many years was particularly outstanding.
One of the best to ever come out of the legendary Bankstown association, Maureen was a very successful junior coach for the Bruins and was named a life member of Bankstown basketball in 1985 and was recently inducted into their Hall of Fame. Maureen also became a life member of Basketball New South Wales in 1987.
Maureen was a highly successful Junior Coach for Bankstown Bruins and was recently inducted into the Bruins Hall of Fame.
2022 Basketball NSW Hall of Fame
Date: 26th November 2022
Time: Pre-drinks at 6 pm, with formalities commencing at 6:30 pm
Venue: Novotel, Sydney Olympic Park
Tickets: Purchase your ticket HERE