{{short description|Australian basketball player}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Use Australian English|date=October 2011}} {{Infobox basketball biography |birth_date={{birth date and age|1959|10|6|df=y}} |birth_place=Ballarat, Victoria, Australia | career_position = Shooting guard |height = {{convert|178|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}<ref name=sports-reference/> |weight = {{convert|73|kg|stlb lb|0|abbr=on}}<ref name=sports-reference/> | highlights = * 10× WNBL champion (1983, 1984, 1986–1989, 1991–1993, 1997) * Australian Basketball Hall of Fame (2006) * Sport Australia Hall of Fame (2018) | FIBA_HOF_player = Robyn-Maher |medaltemplates={{MedalSport |Women's Basketball}} {{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze|1996 Atlanta|Team Competition}} {{MedalCompetition|World Championship}} {{MedalBronze|1998 Germany | Team Competition}} }}
'''Robyn Maher''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 6 October 1959) is an Australian former basketball player. A three-time Olympian, she was a member of the national women's team that won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.<ref name=sports-reference/> In the Women's National Basketball League, she played for the Nunawading Spectres, Hobart Islanders, Perth Breakers and Sydney Uni Flames.
Maher was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2002 Australia Day Honours in recognition of her "service to basketball as a player and administrator, and for the promotion of the sport among young people".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Robyn Leigh Maher|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1132290|access-date=2020-07-25|website=Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet}}</ref> In 2006, Maher was inducted into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame.<ref>[http://basketball.net.au/index.php?id=942 Robyn Maher]. Basketball Australia: Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2012-08-19.</ref> In October 2018, she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |title=Opals great Robyn Maher shines with Sport Australia Hall of Fame Induction |url=https://sahof.org.au/opals-great-robyn-maher-shines-with-sport-australia-hall-of-fame-induction/|website=Sport Australia Hall of Fame website |date=5 October 2018 |access-date=27 September 2020}}</ref>
==Early life== Born in Ballarat, Victoria,<ref name=sports-reference>{{cite web|title=Robyn Maher|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/robyn-maher-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417163553/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ma/robyn-maher-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=17 April 2020|website=sports-reference.com|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|access-date=6 July 2014}}</ref> Maher initially played tennis and netball but switched to basketball in primary school.<ref name=maher-career>{{cite news|url=https://wnbl.basketball/blog/news/robyn-maher-on-her-incredible-career/|title=ROBYN MAHER ON HER INCREDIBLE CAREER|work=wnbl.basketball|date=22 September 2023|access-date=20 July 2024}}</ref>
==WNBL career== Maher played 369 games in the Women's National Basketball League, featuring in 10 championships and 13 grand finals. With the Nunawading Spectres, she won six titles in seven years between 1983 and 1989 under coach and husband Tom Maher.<ref name="maher-career" /> With the Hobart Islanders in 1991, she was grand final MVP as she led the Islanders to a victory over her old Spectres team.<ref name="maher-career" /> Her and Tom reunited as a player/coach duo at the Perth Breakers in 1992 and won another championship. She completed a hat-trick of WNBL championships in 1993 with the Sydney Uni Flames.<ref name="maher-career" /> She won her tenth championship in 1997 with Sydney.<ref name="maher-career" />
==Personal life== Maher's father is former Victorian Football League player Jim Gull.<ref name="maher-career" /> Her brother, Stewart Gull, also played in the VFL.
Maher's husband is former Opals coach Tom Maher.<ref name="maher-career" />
==See also== * WNBL All-Star Five * WNBL Defensive Player of the Year Award
==References== {{reflist}} {{FIBA Hall of Fame}} {{Australia Women Basketball Squad 1996 Summer Olympics}}
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