Basketball Australia has announced the 2022 inductees to the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame – three of which are Victorians, and that includes Alphington Sports Medicine’s own Dr Peter Harcourt!
Dr Gaylene McKay has been the Opals (Australian Women’s Basketball Team) Physiotherapist for 7 years and travelled with them many times for camps and tournaments. But this year she had the privilege of supporting them in Tokyo for the 2020 Olympics!
Now that she’s back in Australia we asked her to spend some of her hotel quarantine time telling us a bit about the experience . . . .
While Dr Gaylene McKay, our Managing Director and the Lead Physiotherapist for the Opals, is now back in Australia and in quarantine, she did manage to send through a few last pics from her time at the Olympics.
More great photos from the Olympics thanks to Alphington Sports Medicine’s Managing Director & Opals Lead Physiotherapist, Dr Gaylene McKay.
APA titled Sports Physiotherapist and Alphington Sports Medicine’s Managing Director, Dr Gaylene McKay, is currently in Tokyo for the Olympics.
As Lead Physiotherapist for the Opals (Australia’s Women’s Basketball Team) she’ll be doing her best to ensure all players are at peak fitness for each game.
Alphington Sports Medicine Clinic’s Managing Director Dr Gaylene McKay is no stranger to the rigorous demands of professional basketball – she played over 300 games in the WNBL and has been a team Physiotherapist since the early 1990’s when she retired.
She returned from the WNBL hub late last year and we had a quick chat about her time in Queensland with the Melbourne Boomers.
Now that the 2018/19 WNBL season is over, we chatted with Alphington Sports Medicine Clinic Physiotherapist Gaylene McKay about her involvement. When and how did you begin working as a Physio in the WNBL / for the Melbourne Boomers?I commenced working as a Physiotherapist in the WNBL in 1991 whilst
Physiotherapists Karina Chilman and Madeleine Ellis have just returned from Townsville where they got the sweet taste of success in the form of Australian U18 Basketball Championships gold with the Vic Metro Men’s and Vic Country Women’s teams.
A highly experienced Sports Physiotherapist with a passion for basketball, Steve Evans was one of the founders of Alphington Sports Medicine Clinic. He sadly passed away last year after a long and courageous battle with his health.
Alphington Sports Medicine Physio Madeleine Ellis has just returned from Europe where she got the sweet taste of success in the form of World Championship gold with the Sapphires, Australia’s U17 girls basketball team.
WOW WOW WOW!! What an experience!
In early July, I was fortunate enough to work on the Medical Team for the Aussieroos at the World Summer Universiade Games.
Recently, I travelled to China with the Gems, (the U/19 Australian Women’s national basketball team). It was a four nation tour, competing against China, Brazil and the USA. Over two weeks we played in three different cities.
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