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This is a list of transactions that have taken place during the off-season and the 2022–23 WNBL season.

Front office movements

Head coach changes

Off-season

Departure date	Team	Outgoing head coach	Reason for departure	Hire date	Incoming head coach	Last coaching position	Ref.
November 19, 2021	Melbourne Boomers	Guy Molloy	Contract expired	May 11	Chris Lucas	Adelaide Lightning head coach (2016–2022)
April 5	Bendigo Spirit	Tracy York	Resigned	May 24	Kennedy Kereama	Canberra Capitals assistant coach (2021–2022)
April 9	Canberra Capitals	Paul Goriss	Resigned	April 26	Kristen Veal	Centre for Excellence head coach (2018–2022)
May 11	Adelaide Lightning	Chris Lucas	Contract expired	May 25	Natalie Hurst	Adelaide Lightning assistant coach (2020–2022)

Player movement

Free agency

Player	Date signed	Former team	New team	Ref
Lauren Nicholson	March 22	Townsville Fire
Courtney Woods	April 29
Kalani Purcell		Sydney Flames
Keely Froling	April 30
Zitina Aokuso	May 2	Townsville Fire
Tahlia Tupaea	May 5	Canberra Capitals
Brittany Smart	May 19
Tiana Mangakahia	May 25	Dynamo Moscow (RUS)	Sydney Flames
Emma Clarke	May 26	Perth Lynx
Tayah Burrows	May 31	Perth Lynx
Lauren Scherf	June 3
Amy Atwell	June 4	Hawaii Rainbow Wahine (USA)	Perth Lynx
Jessie Edwards	June 8	Cockburn Cougars (WA)
Alex Bunton	June 9	Canberra Capitals
Mikaela Ruef		Canberra Capitals	Townsville Fire
Alexandra Sharp	June 10	Perth Lynx
Sami Whitcomb	June 11
Hannah Sjerven	June 8	South Dakota Coyotes (USA)	Sydney Flames
Lauren Mansfield	June 23	Sydney Flames	Adelaide Lightning
Kelsey Griffin	June 24	Canberra Capitals	Bendigo Spirit
Brooke Basham	June 28	Adelaide Lightning
Karlie Samuelson	June 29	CB Avenida (ESP)	Townsville Fire
Stephanie Talbot	July 1	Adelaide Lightning
Jocelyn Willoughby		New York Liberty (USA)	Sydney Flames
Morgan Yaeger	July 12	Sydney Flames	Townsville Fire
Alex Wilson	July 15	Bendigo Spirit
Vanessa Panousis		Sutherland Sharks (NSW)	Sydney Flames
Marena Whittle	July 19	Adelaide Lightning
Emilee Whittle-Harmon	July 21	Southside Flyers	Canberra Capitals
Tianna Hawkins	July 25	Atlanta Dream (USA)	Townsville Fire
Mackenzie Clinch Hoycard	July 27	Perth Lynx
Rebecca Pizzey	July 28	Sydney Flames	Canberra Capitals
Rachel Brewster	July 29	Melbourne Boomers
Louise Brown
Sophie Burrows
Penina Davidson
Cayla George
Lauryn Hippolite
Tess Madgen
Tiffany Mitchell
Mia Murray		Townsville Fire	Melbourne Boomers
Kristy Wallace		Southside Flyers
Lily Scanlon		Melbourne Boomers
Emma Gandini		Perth Lynx
Chloe Bibby	August 2	Maryland Terrapins (USA)	Perth Lynx
Indiah Bowyer	August 3	Logan Thunder (QLD)	Sydney Flames
Lilly Rotunno		Gold Coast Rollers (QLD)
Robbi Ryan	August 4	Grindavík (ISL)	Perth Lynx
Abby Cubillo	August 9	Canberra Capitals	Adelaide Lightning
Rebecca Cole	August 16	Southside Flyers
Sara Blicavs	August 18
Dekeiya Cohen		Hapoel Rishon LeZion (ISR)	Canberra Capitals
Madelyn Allen		Southern Districts Spartans (QLD)	Sydney Flames
Maddison Rocci	August 23	Southside Flyers
Lauren Jackson	August 24	Albury Wodonga Bandits (NSW)	Southside Flyers
Abigail Wehrung	August 25	Adelaide Lightning	Bendigo Spirit
Sherrie Calleia		Sydney Flames	Canberra Capitals
Abby Bishop	August 26	Southside Flyers
Krystal Leger-Walker		Washington State Cougars (USA)	Townsville Fire
Megan McKay	August 29	Bendigo Spirit
Aimie Rocci		Southside Flyers
Rae Burrell	August 30	Tennessee Lady Volunteers (USA)	Canberra Capitals
Alicia Froling	August 31	Bendigo Spirit
Tessa Lavey	September 5
Carley Ernst	September 7	Melbourne Boomers	Southside Flyers
Nyadiew Puoch	September 8	Centre of Excellence (ACT)
Dallas Loughridge	September 9
Aliza Fabbro	September 16	Townsville Fire
Tia Hay		Ipswich Force (QLD)	Townsville Fire
Nes'eya Parker-Williams		Joondalup Wolves (WA)
Chloe Forster	September 20	Warwick Senators (WA)	Perth Lynx
Desiree Kelley		Willetton Tigers (WA)
Sophia Locandro	September 21	UC Irvine Anteaters (USA)	Bendigo Spirit
Cassidy McLean		Bendigo Spirit
Isobel Borlase	September 27	Adelaide Lightning
Piper Dunlop		Bendigo Spirit
Kelly Wilson	September 30	Canberra Capitals	Bendigo Spirit
Elizabeth Tonks	October 4	Canberra Nationals (ACT)	Canberra Capitals
Jacinta Monroe	October 5	Flammes Carolo Basket (FRA)	Adelaide Lightning
Ruby Vlahov	October 11	Perry Lakes Hawks (WA)	Perth Lynx
Olivia Nelson-Ododa	October 12	Los Angeles Sparks (USA)	Melbourne Boomers
Abby Solway	October 13	Canberra Capitals
Chloe Tugliach		Canberra Nationals (ACT)	Perth Lynx
Kayla Thornton	October 24	Reyer Venezia (ITA)	Southside Flyers
Dyani Anaviev	October 26	Bendigo Spirit
Ida Andersson		Sunbury Jets (VIC)	Bendigo Spirit
Aneta Bandilovska		Keilor Thunder (VIC)
Erin Condron		Bendigo Braves (VIC)
Emma Mahady		Sydney Flames
Ruby Porter		Nebraska Cornhuskers (USA)
Micah Simpson		Launceston Tornadoes (TAS)
Holly Griffiths	November 2	Bulleen Boomers (VIC)	Southside Flyers
Lana Hollingsworth		Santa Clara Broncos (USA)
Georgia Pineau		Bendigo Spirit
Stephanie Bairstow	November 11	South West Metro Pirates (QLD)	Sydney Flames
Miela Goodchild	November 20	Duke Blue Devils (USA)	Melbourne Boomers
Monique Conti	November 28	Casey Cavaliers (VIC)	Southside Flyers
Nicole Monger	November 30	CB Aridane (ESP)	Canberra Capitals
Kate Gaze	December 6	Southside Flyers	Townsville Fire
Alison Schwagmeyer-Belger	December 9	ŽKK Crvena zvezda (SRB)	Canberra Capitals
Taylor Ortlepp	January 28	Adelaide Lightning	Melbourne Boomers

Released

Player	Date signed	Team	Reason	Ref
Gemma Potter	November 5	Canberra Capitals	ACL injury
Lily Scanlon	November 9	Melbourne Boomers	Achilles injury
Kalani Purcell	November 11	Sydney Flames	Personal reasons
Dekeiya Cohen	November 28	Canberra Capitals	Personal decision
Dallas Loughridge		Southside Flyers	Knee injury
Stephanie Bairstow	December 1	Sydney Flames	Coach's decision
Kierstan Bell	December 29	Adelaide Lightning	Personal decision

Outgoing movement

Going overseas

Player	Date signed	Former team	New team	Ref
Katie Deeble	November 11	Sydney Flames	Wake Forest Demon Deacons (USA)
Tess Heal	November 21	Melbourne Boomers	Santa Clara Broncos (USA)
Sug Sutton	April 2	Townsville Fire	Poznań (POL)
Ezi Magbegor	May 7	Melbourne Boomers	Sopron Basket (HUN)
Brittney Sykes		Canberra Capitals	Sopron Basket (HUN)
Marina Mabrey	June 10	Perth Lynx	PF Schio (ITA)
Darcee Garbin	June 12	Perth Lynx	DVTK Miskolc (HUN)
Alanna Smith	June 21	Adelaide Lightning	Gorzów Wielkopolski (POL)
Madeleine Garrick	June 22	Bendigo Spirit	Geas Basket (ITA)
Jackie Young	July 14	Perth Lynx	Hatayspor (TUR)
Kylee Shook	July 22	Adelaide Lightning	Olympiacos (GRE)
Kiana Williams	July 28	Adelaide Lightning	Cekk Cegléd (HUN)
Monique Billings	September 1	Townsville Fire	Al-Fuheis (JOR)
Chyra Evans	August 11	Sydney Flames	Michigan Wolverines (USA)
Lindsay Allen	August 23	Melbourne Boomers	Gorzów Wielkopolski (POL)

Retirement

Name	Date	Team(s) played (years)	Notes	Ref.
Jenna O'Hea	March 8	Australian Institute of Sport (2003–2005) Dandenong Rangers (2005–2007, 2011–2014) Bendigo Spirit (2007–08) Bulleen / Melbourne Boomers (2009–2011, 2017–2019) Southside Flyers (2019–2022)	3x WNBL Champion (2011, 2012, 2020) 6x All-WNBL First Team (2010–2014, 2020) Also played overseas in the WNBA & France. Represented Australia national team over 11 years.
Izzy Wright	May 25	Logan Thunder (2012–13) Perth Lynx (2015–16) Melbourne Boomers (2020–2022)	WNBL Champion (2022)

See also

• List of 2022–23 WNBL team rosters

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• 2022–23 WNBL season