Cougars add to championship roster

Feature image via: Madeleine Clark

After winning the NBL1 West title, the Cockburn Cougars have started the offseason just as aggressively by signing Goldfield Giants star Regan Turnour-McCarty for the 2024 season.

Turnour-McCarty spent 2021 and 2022 playing in NBL1 Central with the Woodville Warriors before making the leap to NBL1 West with the Goldfields Giants in 2023.

Last season she averaged 13.5 points, seven rebounds and 4.8 assists as a two-way threat for the Giants. 

Across their two match-ups against the Cougars, coach Tyrone Thwaites was impressed by Turnour-McCarty and wasted no time in recruiting her for the coming season. 

"She was someone we really liked watching throughout the year and while we have had an outstanding year with the group that we've had, and we like the offence that we run, we think that there's part of her game that really suits our identity," Thwaites told the Cougars.

"Regan fits that pretty well and she's a long wing, she is relatively competent defensively and ran the point for Goldfields when they were decimated with injury. While that's not her natural position, we know she's got the capability to pinch hit there. 

"She also loves kids and loves coaching, which is a big part of our club's identity so to have another adult in the program who can educate our kids in the off-season as well as the pre-season meant there were too many boxes ticked for us to not explore signing her as an option."

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