{"id":3180,"date":"2023-02-17T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T04:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2023-02-17T15:57:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T04:57:52","slug":"backcourt-duo-return-for-spectres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/backcourt-duo-return-for-spectres\/","title":{"rendered":"Backcourt Duo Return For Spectres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>MELBOURNE \u2013<\/em><\/strong> The emerging backcourt duo of Tayha Watkins and Taylah Schmidtke have re-signed with the Nunawading Spectres for the upcoming NBL1 South season, the club announced today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese two are integral pieces to our program, now and into the future,\u201d Nunawading Basketball Operations Manager and NBL1 Women\u2019s Head Coach Paul Flynn said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoth have worked incredibly hard over the off-season, investing time into their craft and it\u2019s paying dividends already across pre-season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Watkins brings versatility to the Spectres line-up, with both size and skillset that can see her play in guard and forward positions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTayha has the ability to impact a game on the offensive end in a variety of ways. She can score both inside and out, and possesses the strength to anchor\u00a0 down and defend players bigger than her down the other end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZyoqB6eMb6I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cChoccy (Schmidtke) is a developing point guard who has served her apprenticeship behind Rach (Antoniadou) the past few seasons. We\u2019re excited to elevate her full-time into the NBL1 team and know she\u2019ll provide valuable on court direction to her teammates. Whilst she is a renowned pest defensively, it\u2019s her offensive package that has taken the greatest leap this off-season and we\u2019re excited to see that flourish this season\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZMRCpYznnwI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Schmidtke captained the Spectres Big V Youth Championship side to a Grand Final appearance last season but will solely focus on NBL1 South across 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Watkins and Schmidtke join Spectres Captain Rachel Antoniadou, Izzy Feller, and Emma Pearce as confirmed returnees to a Nunawading side that finished 4<sup>\u65e5<\/sup> in 2022. The team has been working impressively through the summer in preparation for Opening Night at The Graveyard against Mount Gambier on 2 April.<\/p>\n<p>Memberships are now available online via; https:\/\/am.intix.com\/nunawading-basketball<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MELBOURNE \u2013 The emerging backcourt duo of Tayha Watkins and Taylah Schmidtke have re-signed with the Nunawading Spectres for the upcoming NBL1 South season, the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/backcourt-duo-return-for-spectres\/\">\u9605\u8bfb\u66f4\u591a \u201d<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":3181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,48,4],"tags":[63,122,105,89,64,86,90,117,120,91,121],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-v","category-nbl1","category-slider","tag-antoniadou","tag-big-v","tag-feller","tag-flynn","tag-nbl1","tag-nbl1-south","tag-nunawading","tag-pearce","tag-schmidtke","tag-spectres","tag-watkins"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nunawadingbasketball.com.au\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}