Chemist Warehouse Australian Opals FIBA Women’s Asia Cup 2019 Aussie Hoops Activity Pack CONTENTS Hi Aussie Hooper, I hope you are enjoy ing your Aussie Hoops program this term. There has been plenty of Australian Get to know your Opals 3 basketball action over the past few months with the Boomers strong showing at the FIBA Who is Playing? 4 World Cup and now our Australian Opals Women’s team are ready to take on teams My Favourite Opal 5 from Asia and Oceania in the FIBA Asia Cup to be played in India. Keeping Score 6 In this activity pack there are plenty of fun activities and puzzles for you and your family Maze 7 to do, as well as meeting our world class Australian Opals basketball team. Colouring In 8 Cheer loudly for the Green and Gold – go Practise Your Skills 9 Opals! Lauren Jackson Unearth these Opals 10 Aussie Hoops Ambassador Searching for Words 11 How many words 12 Answers 13 Thanks to Melinda Lane for content ideas Get to know your Opals….. Lauren Nicholson Jenna O’Hea Leilani Mitchell Steph Talbot Abby Bishop Bec Allen 182cm Forward 186cm Guard 165cm Guard 188cm Small Forward 188cm Forward 188cm Forward Adelaide Lightning Southside Flyers Southside Flyers Adelaide Lightning Townsville Fire New York Liberty Katie Ebzery Darcee Garbin Sara Blicavs Ezi Magbegor Cayla George Nicole Seekamp 178cm Guard 188cm Power Forward 188cm Power Forward 193cm Forward 193cm Forward 182cm Guard Perth Lynx Townsville Fire Southside Flyers Melbourne Boomers Melbourne Boomers Adelaide Lightning Who is Playing?…..use an atlas to find, label and colour in the countries playing the Opals The countries who are playing in the FIBA Asia Cup are: Australia China Chinese Taipei India Japan New Zealand Philippines South Korea My Favourite Opal….. create a basketball card for your favourite Australian Opals player. Draw a picture of the player on one side of the card and write information about them on the other. Cut out and glue the sides together when you are finished. PLAYER PROFILE ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ ________________________ Keeping Score….. follow all the games and keep the scores – Go Opals! Games are on Foxtel and KayoSports or check the results http://www.fiba.basketball/womensasiacup/2019 Group A Group B Team Score Team Score Team Score Team Score Round One South Korea Chinese Taipei Round One Australia Philippines Japan India China New Zealand Round Two Chinese Taipei Japan Round Two Australia New Zealand India South Korea Philippines China Round Three Japan South Korea Round Three Australia China India Chinese Taipei New Zealand Philippines SF Qualifiers SF Qualifiers Semi Final Semi Final Final Maze….. can you find the path to FIBA Asia Cup glory for the Opals? Colouring In….. Practise Your Skills….. the Australian Opals continue to improve each day by spending time practicing their basketball skills. Record your own skills practice sessions. Date Skills I Practised My Body Felt… My Mind felt… Unearth these Opals….. swap the letters around to identify the Opal players TIEKA ZEBRYE IEZ GAGMRBEO PESTEINAH TTAOBL NERLUA HOLNOSCIN ECARDE RAGNIB BABY PBIOHS CARCBEE ENLAL ANEJN AEOH LAYCA RGEGOE NALLIEI TLIMLECH OILCEN KEEPSAM RAAS VILBCAS Searching for Words….. find the 35 words in the puzzle. You will find that the words are hidden and N B B H S C R E E N S E E K A M P A B F A A O M B E Q G D P T X I C R P Z U A O I N V O L I A Z O P E G U A R D J S C R S G W Z I B U Z Z E R K Y L O B P T K W M A U Z C S H S E R I O D B L A V R B A I L C A A E P H I L I P P I N E S A O R T O C A V A C O B A F A C I A O O L A D H R L S S O L A P U N L H O L D R I R Y B E S E U I N A U S V S E H A R W A D X D O D G E G E L N S L J Y E A I A E M R C O U R T T T H Y I G S C A M B A G E O M P G L W Z K G A E L Q L H O B S W N P B L O C K A I E N H T T F F P L I A V F C R X G R D R O U O O Y O X W E A J P O E W S H O O T R S O L E U T A G A G H U N D G O S R N G B P O A M I T C H E L L T I M E O U T E D S I K E K B R X H K U R U U G P A S S C I E Z C H M I N D I A E S Z S X I N E W Z E A L A N D D P Y A C H I N A J Z M A G B E G O R A F I B A ASIA BLICAVS CHINA FORWARD INDIA NEW ZEALAND SCREEN AUSSIE HOOPS BLOCK COURT FOUL MAGBEGOR OHEA SEEKAMP AUSTRALIA BUZZER DODGE GEORGE MITCHELL OPALS SHOOT BACKBOARD CAMBAGE DRIBBLE GUARD NAISMITH PASS TIMEOUT BANGALORE CENTRE FIBA HOLD NET PHILIPPINES TOLO How many words….. can you make using the letters in the word basketball? BASKETBALL Answers….. Maze Unearth the Opals KATIE EBZERY EZI MAGBEGOR STEPHANIE TALBOT LAUREN NICHOLSON DARCEE GARBIN ABBY BISHOP REBECCA ALLEN JENNA O’HEA CAYLA GEORGE LEILANI MITCHELL NICOLE SEEKAMP Searching for Words SARA BLICAVS N B B H S C R E E N S E E K A M P A B F A A O M B E Q G D P T X I C R P Z U A O I N V O L I A Z O P E G U A R D J S C R S G W Z I B U Z Z E R K Y L O B P T K W M A U Z C S H S E R I O D B L A V R B A I L C A A E P H I L I P P I N E S A O R T O C A V A C O B A F A C I A O O L A D H R L S S O L A P U N L H O L D R I R Y B E S E U I N A U S V S E H A R W A D X D O D G E G E L N S L J Y E A I A E M R C O U R T T T H Y I G S C A M B A G E O M P G L W Z K G A E L Q L H O B S W N P B L O C K A I E N H T T F F P L I A V F C R X G R D R O U O O Y O X W E A J P O E W S H O O T R S O L E U T A G A G H U N D G O S R N G B P O A M I T C H E L L T I M E O U T E D S I K E K B R X H K U R U U G P A S S C I E Z C H M I N D I A E S Z S X I N E W Z E A L A N D D P Y A C H I N A J Z M A G B E G O R A F I B A .