WNBA 2025 tip off: All the Aussies chasing success in the world’s best league

With the WNBA season set to tip off this weekend, we look at every Aussie chasing the ultimate glory in the world’s biggest league. Click to hear from the nation’s seasoned Opals and rising stars.

As many as nine Australians could be on WNBA rosters when the season tips off on Saturday.

That would represent almost a quarter of the 41 Aussies to play in the world’s best basketball league in its 29-season history, with a mix of seasoned Opals and the next generation of down under starlets in training camp preparing to test their mettle.

Australia’s Olympic bronze medal coach Sandy Brondello returns to New York Liberty, with sights on leading her reigning champions to back-to-back WNBA titles.

And Brondello says it’ll be “great to see some familiar faces on so many teams.”

With the national team preparing for July’s Asia Cup and beginning the next major tournament cycle, the champion coach is confident that having so many Aussies competing in the WNBA will only benefit the green and gold in the long run.

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Sandy Brondello is chasing back-to-back WNBA titles. Picture: Sarah Stier/Getty Images

“It (playing in the WNBA) certainly helps them develop individually, which will only help the Opals as we move towards the big tournaments like the World Cup and Olympic Games.,” Brondello told Code Sports.

Michael Randall and Jessica Robinson look at every Aussie in the WNBA and spoke with some of our biggest basketball stars during training camp as they prepared for this weekend’s season tip-off.

Originally published as WNBA 2025 tip off: All the Aussies chasing success in the world’s best league