Stephanie Blicavs

Stephanie Blicavs

Southside Flyers
Position	Guard
League	WNBL
Personal information
Born	(1990-07-26) 26 July 1990 (age 34) Dandenong, Victoria
Nationality	Australian
Listed height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Career information
Playing career	2006–present
Career history
2006–2007	Dandenong Rangers
2007–2009	Australian Institute of Sport
2009–2013	Dandenong Rangers
2013–2015	Townsville Fire
2015–2018	Dandenong Rangers
2018–2019	Adelaide Lightning
2020–present	Southside Flyers
Career highlights and awards
3x WNBL champion (2012, 2015, 2020) WNBL Defensive Player of the Year (2016) SEABL MVP (2015) 2x All-SEABL Women's Team (2013, 2015)
Medals Basketball Representing  Australia Commonwealth Games 2018 Gold Coast FIBA Asia Cup 2017 India World University Games 2013 Kazan

Stephanie Blicavs (née Cumming; born 26 July 1990) is an Australian professional basketball player.

Raised in Dandenong and playing for Rangers junior team, Blicavs joined the WNBL squad in 2006. She then gained a scholarship Australian Institute of Sport and joined the WNBL team. She then returned home to play for the Rangers and won a championship in 2012. She then travelled north to play for the Townsville Fire. She once again won the championship title in the 2015 final. For 2015–16 she returned home where she would Captain the Rangers season.^[1]

In 2020, Blicavs signed on for her first season since pregnancy, returning to Melbourne for her first season with the rebranded Southside Flyers.^[2]

During the WNBL off-season, Blicavs has regularly played in the South East Australian Basketball League. From 2010–2012 she played for the Dandenong Rangers SEABL team as well as the WNBL side. In 2013, she joined the Frankston Blues. In 2014, she took her talents to the Ballarat Rush. In 2015, Blicavs played for the Kilsyth Cobras and led them to the Grand Final where she would go down to her hometown team, Dandenong. Despite losing the final, Blicavs took home the 2015 SEABL MVP award.

In March 2017, Blicavs married the brother of her team mate Sara Blicavs, fellow basketballer, Kris.^[3] On 4 October 2019, Blicavs gave birth to her first child, Arlo.^[4][5]On 27 April 2022, she gave birth to a girl, Etta.