Olympian Sara Blicavs joins basketball.com.au

• Sara Blicavs has joined the Basketball.com.au team as a contributor
• Blicavs is a two-time WNBL champion and represented the Opals at the 2020 Olympics and 2022 FIBA World Cup
• She will be doing some special behind-the-scenes pieces with characters from around Australian basketball

Olympian, WNBL champion and one of the true characters of Australian basketball, Sara Blicavs, is the newest member of the team at basketball.com.au.

Blicavs joins the team as a regular contributor, where she will be doing special behind-the-scenes pieces, spending time with some of the biggest names in the sport in this country.

She may even be starting with a certain GOAT... Or two...

The 32-year-old already has put together an illustrious career, as a two-time WNBL champion, firstly with the Bendigo Spirit in 2014 before winning the 2020 WNBL championship with the Southside Flyers. She has spent almost 15 years as part of the longest running professional women's sports league in Australia.

Blicavs' career at a high performance level started at the Australian Institute of Sport, where the Victorian product would also go on to represent Australia at the under-17 and under-19 levels.

Known as a versatile forward, Blicavs would progress to have a long career in the green and gold, having made her Opals debut in the FIBA Oceania Championship before becoming a mainstay of the program, which led to her making her Olympic debut in Tokyo in 2020, when the Opals made it to the quarterfinals.

Her career in the WNBL began in 2009 with the AIS and would include two stints at the Dandenong Rangers, as well as time at the Bendigo Spirit, the Southside Flyers and Melbourne Boomers before she suffered a debilitating back injury, which forced her to take time away from the court.

Blicavs has now returned to the court with the Melbourne Tigers in the NBL1 South competition and is also aiming to make a WNBL comeback in the upcoming season. She also recently was part of the Opals' 3-0 series win over the New Zealand Tall Ferns in the Trans-Tasman Throwdown last month.

She is also no stranger to the elite-level of sport with her mum, Karen Blicavs (nee Ogden), winning the first league MVP of the WNBL in its inaugural season in 1982 and again in 1983 and her brother, Mark, playing AFL for Geelong.