Casey Samuels

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Casey Samuels
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Samuels with the Canberra Capitals in 2012
No. 16Central Districts Lions
Position Guard / Forward
League NBL1 Central
Personal information
Born (1994-08-02) 2 August 1994 (age 30)
Westmead, New South Wales, Australia
Listed height183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Career information
Playing career2010–present
Career history
2010–2012 Australian Institute of Sport
2012–2013 Canberra Capitals
2013 Hills Hornets
2013–2016 Sydney Uni Flames
2015; 2017 Bankstown Bruins
2018–2019North Gold Coast Seahawks
2018–2019 Townsville Fire
2021 Gold Coast Rollers
2021–2022Canberra Capitals
2022Central Districts Lions
2022–2023ARMS Depiro Rabat Imtarfa
2023 Rockingham Flames
2023–2024 Bendigo Spirit
2024–presentCentral Districts Lions
Career highlights and awards

Casey Samuels (born 2 August 1994) is an Australian basketball player.

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Early life

Samuels was born in Westmead, New South Wales. [1]

Basketball career

WNBL

Samuels debuted in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) for the Australian Institute of Sport in 2010. She played two seasons for the AIS. [2] [3] [4] In a 14 December 2011 game against the Canberra Capitals, she was the team's leading scorer with 19 points. [5] In a January 2012 game against the Dandenong Rangers, she scored five points in game her team lost. She was the team's second leading scorer in the game. [6] In an 8 February 2012 game against the Capitals, she scored 10 points in the second half. [7] She finished the game as the team's third leading scorer with eleven points. [8]

For the 2012–13 WNBL season, Samuels joined the Canberra Capitals. [2] Between 2013 and 2016, she played three seasons for the Sydney Uni Flames. [2] Her next WNBL stint came in 2018–19 with the Townsville Fire. This was followed by a return to the Capitals in 2021–22 and then playing for the Bendigo Spirit in 2023–24. [2]

State Leagues

In 2013, Samuels played for the Hills Hornets in the Waratah League. In 2015 and 2017, she played in the Waratah League for the Bankstown Bruins. She then played for the North Gold Coast Seahawks in the Queensland Basketball League in 2018 and 2019 and then for the Gold Coast Rollers in the NBL1 North in 2021. [2]

In 2022, Samuels played for the Central Districts Lions in the NBL1 Central. She played for the Rockingham Flames of the NBL1 West in 2023 and then returned to the Lions for the 2024 NBL1 Central season. [2] She was named NBL1 Central MVP in 2024. [9]

Europe

For the 2022–23 season, Samuels joined ARMS Depiro Rabat Imtarfa in Malta, [10] where she led the league in scoring with 23 points per game. [11]

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