Robyn Maher

{{short description|Australian basketball player}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}}

{{Use Australian English|date=October 2011}}

{{Infobox basketball biography

|birth_date={{birth date and age|1959|10|6|df=y}}

|birth_place=Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

| career_position = Shooting guard

|height = {{convert|178|cm|ftin|abbr=on}}

|weight = {{convert|73|kg|stlb lb|0|abbr=on}}

| highlights =

• 10× WNBL champion (1983, 1984, 1986–1989, 1991–1993, 1997)
• Australian Basketball Hall of Fame (2006)
• Sport Australia Hall of Fame (2018)

|medaltemplates={{MedalSport |Women's Basketball}}

{{MedalCountry | {{AUS}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze|1996 Atlanta|Team Competition}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championship}}

{{MedalBronze|1998 Germany | Team Competition}}

}}

Robyn Maher {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 6 October 1959) is an Australian former basketball player. A three-time Olympian, she was a member of the national women's team that won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. In the Women's National Basketball League, she played for the Nunawading Spectres, Hobart Islanders, Perth Breakers and Sydney Uni Flames.

Maher was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2002 Australia Day Honours in recognition of her "service to basketball as a player and administrator, and for the promotion of the sport among young people".{{Cite web|title=Robyn Leigh Maher|url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/1132290|access-date=2020-07-25|website=Australian Honours Search Facility, Dept of Prime Minister and Cabinet}} In 2006, Maher was inducted into the Australian Basketball Hall of Fame.[http://basketball.net.au/index.php?id=942 Robyn Maher]. Basketball Australia: Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2012-08-19. In October 2018, she was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.{{cite web |title=Opals great Robyn Maher shines with Sport Australia Hall of Fame Induction |url=https://sahof.org.au/opals-great-robyn-maher-shines-with-sport-australia-hall-of-fame-induction/|website=Sport Australia Hall of Fame website |date=5 October 2018 |access-date=27 September 2020}}