Kangoeroes-Willebroek Women
Wikipedia - Kangoeroes Basket Mechelen
Kangoeroes Basket Mechelen, also known as Kangoeroes or Kangoeroes Mechelen, is a basketball club based in Mechelen, Belgium. Founded in 2009, the club plays in the BNXT League. Kangoeroes have been playing in the top tier division in Belgium for 11 years, since 2013.
Previously, the team played in Boom and Willebroek. In 2018, the club moved to Mechelen.
History
The club was founded in 2009, as a result of a merger between BBC Kangoeroes Willebroek and Boom BBC. The team name was BBC Kangoeroes Boom, but in summer 2013 the team was renamed Kangoeroes Basket Willebroek. In the 2013–14 season, Kangoeroes entered the professional first tier Ethias League. The Kangoeroes received a C-licence from the Belgium Basketball Federation. This license allowed the team to play with a considerably lower budget than other teams.
Move to Mechelen
In January 2018, Kangoroes announced it would move the team to the city of Mechelen starting from the 2018–19 season. The arena in Willebroek did not fulfill the needs of the Division I. With its merger the club would merge with Pitzemburg Basket and the new team was Kangoeres Basket Mechelen.
Since the 2021–22 season, Kangoeroes plays in the BNXT League, in which the national leagues of Belgium and the Netherlands have been merged.
Kangoeroes-Willebroek Women zdobyły do tej pory dwa tytuły mistrzowskie Belgii (w sezonach 2014/2015 i 2016/2017) oraz jeden Puchar Belgii (w sezonie 2016/2017). Dwukrotnie wystąpiły również w rozgrywkach EuroCup Women, zajmując odpowiednio 12. (w sezonie 2015/2016) i 14. miejsce (w sezonie 2017/2018) w fazie grupowej.
Drużynę prowadzi trener Kristof Michiels. W składzie Kangoeroes-Willebroek Women znajdują się zarówno belgijskie, jak i zagraniczne zawodniczki, w tym m.in. Amerykanki Kayla Reed i Alecia Sutton.