Giants Lure Opal Garbin Home

In what has become a ray of hope in an otherwise dark month of injury news, Northern Star Resources Goldfields Giants officials have been able to lure former Kalgoorlie-Boulder junior, and current Australian Opal, Darcee Garbin back to the Goldfields to line up for the Giants' women for the remainder of the 2023 season.

Garbin, a 188cm forward/centre, has an extensive basketball resume, having played professionally overseas, across Australia in the WNBL and State domestic leagues and has represented her country numerous times, most recently as a member of the Australian Opals at the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup Basketball Championships held in Sydney.
She has recently returned to Australia after playing her second season in Europe, for DVTK-Hun-Therm Miskolc in the Hungarian A Division league which concluded in April

A product of the Piccadilly Saints and CBC Basketball clubs in Kalgoorlie, Garbin left the Goldfields as a 15 year old back in 2010, moving to Perth for basketball after being named in Western Australian and Australian Junior representative teams.

The move to Perth saw her making her one game SBL debut with the Rockingham Flames in 2011 after gaining an AIS scholarship and then heading to Canberra for the AIS Basketball Program for three years.
Here she made her WNBL debut in their women's programme at 17 years of age, playing 20 games in 2011-2012 before returning to Perth to play for the West Coast Waves in the WNBL.

After three seasons with the Waves, she made the move to Townsville to join the Townsville Fire WNBL program, playing five seasons and becoming a two-time WNBL champion in the process.

In 2019, Garbin was named to the Australian Opals women's squad, ultimately making the final roster for the 2019 FIBA Asia Cup where she would make her Opals debut.
She also took on her first overseas stint in Germany, joining Herner TC where she saw success as they won both the DBBL Cup and DBBL Championship.

Returning to Perth in 2020, she re-joined the Perth WNBL program, taking them to the WNBL championship series as club captain.

Having played 242 WNBL games over 11 seasons, including two championships and the captaincy of the Perth Lynx in her final season of 2021-2022, Garbin headed back overseas to help her cement her spot in the Australian National program, which proved successful with her Australian Opals World Cup bronze medal campaign in 2022.

Garbin's signing with her hometown club earlier this week coincided with the Basketball Australia announcement this week that she was named in the extended Australian Opals squad for the upcoming FIBA Women's Asia Cup later this year.

At just 28 years of age and the potential of years of basketball ahead of her, Garbin's exploits put her in consideration as undoubtedly one of the regions' greatest Basketball exports, alongside former Goldfields basketballer and recent Goldfields Sporting Hall fo Fame inductee Lisa MacLean who amassed quite a career playing 186 games in the WNBL for the Perth Breakers in the 1990's including a championship in 1992 as well as 100+ games in the SBL competition.

Club officials are hoping to have Darcee cleared to play this week as they look to take on the Perry Lakes Hawks in Kalgoorlie this Saturday night.

Welcome home, Darcee!

Darcee Garbin
Date Of Birth: 24th June 1994
Height: 188cm (6’2″)
Position: Forward/Centre
Giants Playing Number: To Be Confirmed
Recruited from: DVTK-Hun-Therm Miskolc (Hungary A-League)

Basketball Career:
2011-2013 - AIS Scholarship

SBL / QBL / NBL1 - 164 Games
2011-2016, 2018-2019 - Rockingham Flames (SBL) - 3 x WSBL Champion 2014, 2015, 2019
2017-2018 - Townsville Flames (QBL)
2021-2022 - Frankston Blues (NBL1 South)

WNBL - 242 games
2011-2012 - AIS (WNBL)
2012-2015 - West Coast Waves (WNBL)
2015-2020 - Townsville Fire (WNBL) -  2 x WNBL Champion 2016, 2018
2020-2022 - Perth Lynx (WNBL) - Captain 2021-2022 Season

Overseas
2018-2019 - Herner TC (DBBL - Germany) - DBBL Cup Winner and DBBL Champion
2022-2023 - DVTK-Hun-Therm Miskolc (NB I / Euroleague - Hungary) - NB I Bronze Medal

International
2010 - Australia (FIBA Oceania Youth Tournament) - Gold Medal
2012 - Australian Gems (FIBA Women's Oceania U18 Championship) - Gold Medal
2013 - Australian Gems (FIBA Women's U19 World Championship) - Bronze Medal
2017 - Australian Emerging Opals (World University Games) - Gold Medal
2019 - Australian Opals (FIBA Women's Asia Cup) - Bronze Medal
2021 - Australian Opals (FIBA Women's Asia Cup) - Bronze Medal
2022 - Australian Opals (FIBA Women's World Cup) - Bronze Medal

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