Australian handball player
Fiona Mary Robinson (born 7 February 1969) is an Australian former basketball and handball player. She played 10 seasons in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) and five seasons in the State Basketball League (SBL). She was a member of the Australia women's national basketball team that won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Four years later, she was a member of the Australia women's national handball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
Basketball career
Robinson was a state representative for her native Western Australia as a junior before accepting a scholarship to attend the Australian Institute of Sport from 1985 to 1987,[1] where she played for the program's WNBL team.[2] She later accepted a scholarship to attend Southwest Texas State University and represented Australia in basketball at the 1987 Summer Universiade in Zagreb.[1]
In 1988, she played for the Perth Breakers in the WNBL. After winning the SBL MVP with the Stirling Senators in 1990, she played for the Breakers again in 1991. She also continued on with the Senators in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1994,[3] where she won her second SBL MVP in 1992[4] and an SBL championship in 1994.[5] She played her third, fourth and fifth seasons with the Perth Breakers from 1993 to 1995, before moving to Canberra and playing for the Canberra Capitals in 1996 and 1997.[6][7] She played for the Australia women's national basketball team that won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics.[8] She subsequently moved to Europe and played in Spain and Austria.[1]
In 2003 and 2004, Robinson played for the Frankston Blues in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL).[9]
In July 2023, Robinson was inducted into the Basketball WA Hall of Fame.[10]
Handball career
After moving to Europe in the late 1990s, Robinson switched sports and began playing handball. She went on to play for the Australia women's national handball team at the 2000 Summer Olympics.[8]
Personal life
For a period in the early 1990s, Robinson was known as Fiona Massara.[11][12] Her surname returned to Robinson in the mid-1990s, later changing again to Fiona Hannan after marrying Andy Hannan. The two met in Canberra while she was playing for the Capitals and Andy was at the Australian Defence Force Academy.[13] Their daughter, Ashlee Hannan, was inline to play college basketball in the United States for the University of Texas in 2019–20[13] but she never debuted.[14] Ashlee joined the Perth Lynx in 2023.[15]
