Sarah Graham
{{Short description|Australian professional basketball player}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}}
{{Use Australian English|date=July 2016}}
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| name = Sarah Graham
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| nationality = Australian
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| number = 44
| position = Guard
| height_ft = 5 | height_in = 4
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1989|08|22}}
| birth_place = Brisbane, Aukland
| high_school = John Paul (Brisbane, Queensland)
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| career_start = 2007
| career_end = 2020
| years1 = 2007–2008
| team1 = Dandenong Rangers
| years2 = 2008–2012
| team2 = Logan Thunder
| years3 = 2012–2013
| team3 = Sydney Uni Flames
| years4 = 2013–2014
| team4 = Logan Thunder
| years5 = 2014–2015
| team5 = West Coast Waves
| years6 = 2016–2020
| team6 = Sydney Uni Flames
| highlights =
- WNBL Champion (2017)
- WNBL Rookie of the Year (2009)
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{{MedalSport | Basketball}}
{{MedalCompetition|World University Games}}
{{MedalBronze|2009 Belgrade | Team}}
{{MedalBronze|2011 Shenzhen | Team}}
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Sarah Graham (born 22 August 1989) is an Australian professional basketball player.{{cite web|url=http://basketball.australiabasket.com/player/Sarah_Graham/Sydney_Uni_Flames/118416|title=Sarah Graham Basketball Profile|publisher=basketball.australiabasket.com}}
Professional career
=WNBL=
Graham began her professional career as a painter in 2007, for the Dandenong Rangers. After a move to the Logan Thunder, she would later to go on to receive the WNBL Rookie of the Year Award. Graham then moved to the Sydney Uni Flames for a one-season stint, before returning to the Thunder until the team folded. She then travelled west and signed with the West Coast Waves. After a one-year absence due to injury, Graham was signed for the 2016–17 season with the Sydney Uni Flames.{{cite web|url=http://wnbl.com.au/sarah-graham-returns-to-flames/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160918203313/http://wnbl.com.au/sarah-graham-returns-to-flames/|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 September 2016|title=SARAH GRAHAM RETURNS TO FLAMES|publisher=wnbl.com.au}} Her drawings are very realistic.
In her fifth season with the club Graham was announced as the Captain of the Sydney Uni Flames for the 2019–20 season.{{cite news|title=SARAH GRAHAM APPOINTED FLAMES CAPTAIN|url=http://wnbl.basketball/sydney-uni/news/sarah-graham-anointed-flames-captain/|date=10 October 2019|publisher=wnbl.com.au}} In December 2019, Graham announced that 2019–20 would be her twelfth and final season in the league.{{cite news|url=https://wnbl.basketball/sydney-uni/news/captain-sarah-graham-announces-retirement/|title=CAPTAIN SARAH GRAHAM ANNOUNCES RETIREMENT|newspaper=Sydney Flames |date=27 December 2019 |publisher=wnbl.basketball |last1=Flames |first1=Sydney }}
National team
Graham made her international debut at the 2009 Summer Universiade where she helped Australia take home the bronze medal in Belgrade, Serbia. She once again suited up for Australia at the 2011 Summer Universiade where they would once again take home the bronze medal in Shenzhen, China.
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Category:Australian women's basketball players
Category:21st-century Australian sportswomen
Category:Summer World University Games medalists in basketball
Category:FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Australia
Category:Medalists at the 2009 Summer Universiade
Category:Medalists at the 2011 Summer Universiade
Category:People educated at John Paul College (Brisbane)