Brad's Story
Brad Newley moved from South Australia to Canberra to take up an AIS scholarship and first represented Australia as a senior in 2005 at the Oceania Championships. Newley was part of the Boomer 2006 World Championships and Commonwealth Games teams. Newley made his Olympic debut in 2008 at the Beijing Games where the team finished seventh. He played in the 2010 World Championships, finishing 10th.
He went on to compete at his second Olympic competition at the London 2012 Games. With Australia losing their opening two preliminary matches to Brazil and Spain, they went on to defeat China, hosts Great Britain and Russia to set up a quarter-final match against the USA. The Australians went down 119-86 to the eventual gold medallists to finish seventh.
