Samantha Richards

Samantha Richards (born 24 February 1983) is an Australian basketball guard from Melbourne, Victoria who played her junior basketball in Nunawading. She has played professionally in Australia for the WNBL's Dandenong Rangers, the Australian Institute of Sport, the Perth Lynx and the Bulleen Boomers. She has also played professionally in Europe. Richards has been a member of the Australia women's national basketball team on the U19, U21, University and Senior teams.

Personal Richards was born on 24 February 1983 in Melbourne.

Basketball Richards is a guard, She played her junior basketball for Nunawading. She rejoined Dandenong for the 2001/2002 season and continued to play for them during the 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 seasons, missing the first third of the 2006/2007 season because she was injured. This season, she was 25 years old. In 2008, she was named as one of the players on the Dandenong Rangers Team of the Decade.

Richards joined the Perth Lynx in 2007/2008. She played for the Perth Lynx in 2008/2009. In a December 2008 game against the Christchurch Sirens, she scored 12 points in 66–61 win for the Sirens. Following the loss, her team remained in tenth and last position on the WNBL's ladder. That season, she was named to the WNBL's All-Star Five.

National team Richards has represented Australia on U19, U21 and University level, and made her international debut in 2001, in the U19 World Championships for Australia. and the 2007 Australian World University gold medal-winning team. and 2007. and by March 2007, she was named to the national team what would prepare for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

Richards was with the Opals in 2008 She played in a three-game test series Taiwan in May 2008.

Richards continued to play for the Opals in 2009, playing in a Canberra-hosted return game against New Zealand in the Oceania Championship on 2 September, having gotten permission from her Czech club to participate. In 2010, she participated in the Salamanca Invitational Basketball Tournament in Spain. Her team beat Spain 85–64. They also beat the United States. As the team's guard, she helped prevent turnovers in the game against Spain. In 2010, she was a member of the senior women's national team that competed at the World Championships in the Czech Republic.

Richards was a member of the 2011 Opals squad. She was named to the 2012 Australia women's national basketball team. She was scheduled to participate in the national team training camp held from 14 to 18 May 2012 at the Australian Institute of Sport. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was part of the Australian team that won the bronze medal.