Hey Pal Radio: Winter Edition is here to have a chat about the 2025 NBL1 seasons across the country - North, South, East, West and Central! Our guest this week is Mackenzie Clinch Hoycard from the Warwick Senators.

We speak with Mack ahead of her NBL1 West Qualifying Final against the Perth Redbacks and chat about the journey from being a shy kid in Kalgoorlie to an inaugural NBL1 National Champion, signing with the Geelong Venom for the upcoming WNBL season and so much more.

Follow @heypalradio on social media and ensure you keep track with the NBL1 competitions through social media. You can watch NBL1 games (where host Eric McFarland is a commentator in the West) through the NBL1 App and select 'Game of the Week' Features on Kayo Sports.

It's bonus episode time here on Hey Pal Radio: Winter Edition as we celebrate the opening of The W Club Melbourne.

Hailing from the location of The Aviary in Melbourne, our pals Liz Quinn & Tessa Lavey have opened an inclusive, comfortable place where the community can come and celebrate, support and engage with Women's sport in the environment of the local. We chat with Quinny & Tess about their Opals Watch Party / Pub Warming event on Friday 18th July, the space, the journey, Tessa talks Richmond AFLW pre-season and might have actually had the inside word about a new Aussie TV reboot! Plus so much more with the legends from The W Club Melbourne.

Follow @heypalradio on social media and ensure you keep track with the NBL1 competitions through social media. You can watch NBL1 games (where host Eric McFarland is a commentator in the West) through the NBL1 App and select 'Game of the Week' Features on Kayo Sports.

Hey Pal Radio: Winter Edition is here to have a chat about the 2025 NBL1 seasons across the country - North, South, East, West and Central! Our guest this week is Caitie Jones from the Albury Wodonga Bandits.

We speak with Caitie about her move to NBL1 East and Albury Wodonga, the desire to be at the NBL1 National Finals, playing overseas and returning to Germany again, pivoting out of college and finding her own path and so much more.

Follow @heypalradio on social media and ensure you keep track with the NBL1 competitions through social media. You can watch NBL1 games (where host Eric McFarland is a commentator in the West) through the NBL1 App and select 'Game of the Week' Features on Kayo Sports.

Hey Pal Radio: Winter Edition is here to have a chat about the 2025 NBL1 seasons across the country - North, South, East, West and Central! Our guest this week is Alaska Rhebok from the Perth Redbacks.

Ahead of a special event where the Perth Redbacks host Perry Lakes Hawks in Albany, we speak with Alaska about her first season at the Redbacks and the decision to make the move, the advice she has picked up from her MVP and Olympic teammates, the advice she'd pass on in order to progress and create your opportunities at the level, a possible new role in the bus/travel area of the team operations and so much more.

Follow @heypalradio on social media and ensure you keep track with the NBL1 competitions through social media. You can watch NBL1 games (where host Eric McFarland is a commentator in the West) through the NBL1 App and select 'Game of the Week' Features on Kayo Sports.

Hey Pal Radio: Winter Edition is here to have a chat about the 2025 NBL1 seasons across the country - North, South, East, West and Central! Our guest this week is Carlie McAlister from the Canberra Nationals.

We speak with Carlie about Canberra and her return home with the Canberra Nationals, being a Gold Medal 3x3 Gangurrus trailblazer, current approach to the game and balance, advice she'd give a younger self and much more.

Follow @heypalradio on social media and ensure you keep track with the NBL1 competitions through social media. You can watch NBL1 games (where host Eric McFarland is a commentator in the West) through the NBL1 App and select 'Game of the Week' Features on Kayo Sports.

It's bonus episode time here on Hey Pal Radio: Winter Edition. Seven of Australia's sharpest basketball minds were put to the test - Can they draft the best fantasy WNBL team?

Armed with a salary cap, the richest talent pool in the history of Australian basketball and an AI bot 'Drafty McDraftington' which of our GM's can produce the best team and can you beat them!? Listen to find out how you to test them and become a winner yourself.

Our GM's are WNBL Star Sherrie Calleia, East Got Game's Jacinta Govind, The SA Shotclock's Tristan Prentice, Frankston / Southside hypeman Chris Sermeño, WNBL Pulse's Nick Walker, Ball Don't Lie Australia's Mal 'Big Dog' Crawford and Hey Pal's host Eric McFarland.

Follow @heypalradio on social media and ensure you keep track with the NBL1 competitions through social media. You can watch NBL1 games (where host Eric McFarland is a commentator in the West) through the NBL1 App and select 'Game of the Week' Features on Kayo Sports.

Hey Pal Radio: Winter Edition is here to have a chat about the 2025 NBL1 seasons across the country - North, South, East, West and Central! Our guest this week is NBL1 alumnus and current Washington Mystics WNBA star - Jade Melbourne.

That's right Jade-o returns and we speak with her about the Mystics start to the season, the Aussie connection with Georgia Amoore, increased opportunity, Caps planning, the new era of the WNBL - plus much much more

Follow @heypalradio on social media and ensure you keep track with the NBL1 competitions through social media. You can watch NBL1 games (where host Eric McFarland is a commentator in the West) through the NBL1 App and select 'Game of the Week' Features on Kayo Sports.

Hey Pal Radio: Winter Edition is here to have a chat about the 2025 NBL1 seasons across the country - North, South, East, West and Central! Our guest in this surprise second new episode this week is Karly Murphy from the Eastern Suns.

We speak with Karly about getting serious about basketball in high school and the work that involved, her game and life balance, reservations about a basketball career and how a call to come to the NBL1 West changed that all, her role at the her new club - the Eastern Suns plus much more.

Follow @heypalradio on social media and ensure you keep track with the NBL1 competitions through social media. You can watch NBL1 games (where host Eric McFarland is a commentator in the West) through the NBL1 App and select 'Game of the Week' Features on Kayo Sports.