"The craziest thing": Courtney Woods on the Fire's dramatic WNBL26 championship

Long a model of constant improvement, the Fire guard took her game, and her team, to a new level this season

When Courtney Woods and her teammates clinched the 2026 WNBL championship in a pulsating win over the Perth Lynx, it was the culmination of a mountain of planning and hard work.

The 28-year-old continued her steady improvement into one of the league’s elite players, recording 15.22 points, 6.1 assists per game (second in the WNBL) and 1.96 steals per game (fifth in the league) across the season.

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Her assists numbers were a career best and a vital part of the Fire’s championship win. Woods explains that her improvement as a playmaker began midway through WNBL25, when she sat down with Shannon Seebohm to address what she saw as a flaw in her game – taking too many contested shots.