Hawaii women’s basketball team concludes pre-season international tour

Hawaii women’s basketball team concludes pre-season international tour

The Rainbow Wahines have finished their first ever international tour.

Last week, the Hawaiian Airlines sponsored University of Hawai‘i women’s basketball team, concluded its first ever pre-season international tour of Australia and New Zealand. A highlight of the tour was when the Rainbow Wahine visited the GIANTS Netball team in Sydney, also sponsored by Hawaiian Airlines.

The visit included touring their facilities, along with wishing them well for their impending preliminary final weekend of action.

Judging by all of the sunny smiles, both hosts and visitors enjoyed the opportunity to “talk story,” learning about each other’s training and preparation techniques.

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This image includes GIANTS Netball team members and coach, the entire Rainbow Wahine touring squad, and Hawaiian Airlines Sydney team members Joyce Weir, Bart Druitt and Celeste Arthur (back row top right).

The Rainbow Wahine’s “#GoTheDistance International Tour” from August 7-18 included four stops, along with four games. Including NZ Premier North in Auckland on August 8th, NZ Premiere South in Christchurch on August 12th, Diamond Valley-SEABL in Melbourne on August 15th, and ending in Sydney on August 17th to play a squad from the AirTime Coaching Academy (a Sydney based organization that primes local players to break into the American college basketball league) along with meeting the GIANTS Netball netball team.

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