The 13th round of the WNBL season is the Fighting Period Poverty Round, an initiative which started during the 2022-23 season to raise awareness about the issue in Australia. It’s conducted in partnership with Share the Dignity, a national charity providing sanitary products to Australian women in need.
The WNBL is the only professional league in Australia that’s actively pointing to the issues of poverty, homelessness and domestic violence, which almost always take the back seat to sports. The WNBL is using its platform to highlight issues that have a hurtful impact on women’s lives all over the world. Sports are not mere distraction—and they never should be.
But in order for sports to effectively amplify social concerns, the sport itself must be compelling. And luckily for us, there’s been some serious hooping going on in the WNBL in recent weeks, so let’s recap, with our focus being on two Atlanta Dream players.
Hillmon is lone bright spot for struggling Southside
Last year’s champions, the Southside Flyers, are the worst team in the league. With a 4-12 record, they’re third in points scored, but also second to last in points allowed. Only five players on the roster shoot with at least 50 percent accuracy from the floor, two of which have made fewer…
