Melbourne secures former Supercat for 2024

FORMER Geelong United Supercats player Sara Blicavs will make her long-awaited return to the NBL1 South, but it will not be in Geelong.

Blicavs will instead suit up for the Melbourne Tigers – a team she hasn’t suited up for in a decade and a half – in 2024.

“I am super excited to be back at Melbourne Tigers after a long 15-year break away from the club,” Blicavs told the club.

“The reputation this club upholds and carries makes me proud to be back playing with them.

“I know I’m in good hands working with Kaleb [Sclater] and being coached by him, especially with an Olympic year coming up.

“I know the team he is putting together will be full of energy and grit and one that I’m very keen to be a part of.”

An Australian Opal and member of the WNBL Melbourne Boomers, Blicavs sat out the 2023 NBL1 South campaign as Geelong United went on to make the Preliminary Final in its first season without the superstar.

Blicavs is also a two-time WNBL Champion and prolific scoring producer and rebounder.

In her last season with the Supercats in 2022, Blicavs put up All-NBL1 numbers averaging 26 points, 10 rebounds and three steals per game, while shooting 51 per cent from the field.

Tigers head coach Kaleb Sclater said Blicavs’a’s signing was massive for the club.

“I’ve known Sara for a few years now and she is one the best humans that I know, and the Tigers fans will see that by the way she carries herself.

“Everyone will love her, and she will give our young juniors someone to really look up to.

“Sara is one of the best players in the country and she will help us all around, her scoring, her leadership, experience will be huge.

“I think what the Tigers fans and her teammates will see is how hard she works and how she is an exceptional defender which I think gets overlooked by her ability to score.”