Sally Phillips
Former Australian basketballer (AIS, 193 WNBL games, 1993 Junior World Cup gold) now an athlete manager at Stella Athlete Management and founder of The Second Half; former Head of the WNBL.
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Sep 10, 2026
Kate GanielHOST
And so you did that until what age were you really involved in all of that up until?
Sally PhillipsGUEST
So I think that added up to 193 games through 1990 through to 2000 when I retired.
Sally PhillipsGUEST
So I think I just – the 2000 season finished in March, so I was kind of 26, 27 years old when I retired, which probably in basketball terms is really young.
Sally PhillipsGUEST
I think quite often, you know, sort of at that 24, 25, 26, gosh, even older is when you're starting to probably play your best basketball.
Sally PhillipsGUEST
But, yeah, that last season I moved over to Adelaide to play and that was really tough because – you know, friends and family and my husband were all at, um, all at home here in Melbourne.
11 MINS LATER
Kate GanielHOST
Can you just talk to that and what is it and where did it come from? How did it come about? Because I love this.