Brayden Heslehurst jumped into his first season coaching women’s basketball in Australia and was hit with a pressing question during an early training session.
“How did you get Neferatali Notoa here?”
“Who?” Heslehurst responded.
He had recently switched from coaching a men’s team to leading the Logan Thunder of the Australian NBL 1 league and wasn’t very familiar with the names of his players yet. But that was the last time Heslehurst would need to be told who Notoa was.
Neferatali – Tali for short – Notoa was sensational in that training session and earned an invite to join the talented team, which included players from top colleges, like Stanford, and even a player with WNBA experience.