Maher, a veteran of six World Championship campaigns and Australia’s most capped women’s basketball player with 374 internationals, amassed 369 WNBL games between 1981 and 2000 and was named Most Valuable Player on two occasions.
But in her words the passion and the determination that the current crop of WNBL players display makes the league a tougher one than she ever played in.
You can watch Robyn’s speech here: