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Liz Murphy Named EuroBasket News POW & More

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Fri Nov 15, 2013 3:43 pm

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Congrats to #SWNT player & Beaconsfield, QC native @LizzieMurph as she is @EurobasketNews Player of the Week! Read: http://ow.ly/qRDEO

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Liz In France

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Wed Jan 15, 2014 3:37 pm

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Check out this vid of @LizzieMurph and her success in France this year en franca is : #DansLeCercle - Ep.3 http://ow.ly/sBTNR @Daft_Dunk

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Canada Basketball POW

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Fri Feb 07, 2014 3:18 pm

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Correction! Our female Player of the Week @LizzieMurph is having a great season with her team ANGERS - congrats Liz! http://ow.ly/topS4

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Nominated For France Female Athlete Of The Year

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:30 pm

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Our very own @LizzieMurph is among 5 nominees in France for "Female Athlete of 2014!" Vote for her: http://bit.ly/1tuQTtn @BasketballQc

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Named Female Athlete Of Year For Angers

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Fri Jan 02, 2015 6:53 pm

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Thanks to everyone voted! Merci a tous et toutes! I won female athlete of the year for Angers http://instagram.com/p/xWvgQbARYI/

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POTW

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Mon Jan 26, 2015 6:15 pm

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Congratulations to @LizzieMurph for winning the @EurobasketNews Player Of The Week for the France League!

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Canadian Basketball Player Of The Week

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Fri Jan 30, 2015 5:20 pm

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Congratulations to our Canada Basketball Players Of The Week - Xavier Rathan-Mayes and @LizzieMurph

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MVP De Janvier

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Fri Feb 06, 2015 4:32 pm

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@LizzieMurph MVP de Janvier #DLC #LFB @ufab49 @CanBball #TheNorth

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French League Season MVP

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Thu Apr 02, 2015 3:13 pm

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Congratulations to @LizzieMurph for winning the MVP Award in the French League! #WeAreTeamCanada

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Canada Basketball POW

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Can Ball Report

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Mon Apr 20, 2015 3:54 pm

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Our latest edition of The Pro-File is with @lizziemurph from France right here - http://ow.ly/LPrOF http://ow.ly/i/aqXFX #CanBall #NPH

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Injured In France

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Sun Dec 06, 2015 2:45 am

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Had a great chat with @CanBball star @LizzieMurph on her ACL injury. She's already in physio mode after surgery & will be in Rio! #RDS TSN


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Lizanne Murphy, one of the longest-serving players on Canada’s senior women’s basketball team, suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament playing for her club team in France and could be sidelined for up to six months.

The 31-year-old native of Beaconsfield was injured while playing for Angers in a loss to Lyon of the French league and had surgery on Friday morning.

Murphy said Friday she’d be in hospital over the weekend before going to a rehab centre for two weeks.

“People have come back in four months with simple ACL (surgery) but I’m hoping for five, six months max,” she said in an electronic conversation.

Fiercely proud of her career with Canada, the 6-foot forward once told the Star she plays in France each winter because the schedule allows her more time for individual workouts to be ready for the summer international season.

A four- to six-month recovery period would put Murphy on track to represent Canada at the 2016 Rio Olympics in August; she was on the team that recorded a top-eight finish at the 2012 London Games, as well as the team that was fifth at the 2014 world championships before rolling to gold medal performances at the 2015 FIBA Americas tournament and the Pan Am Games in Toronto.

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In The News

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Mon Jan 18, 2016 5:16 pm

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Lizanne Murphy (@LizzieMurph) encouragée par sa réadaptation à 7 mois des JO de Rio. http://ici.radio-canada.ca/sports/PlusS ... -rio.shtml

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On The Road To Recovery

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Fri Feb 19, 2016 7:43 pm

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Check out @LizzieMurph on her recovery https://amp.twimg.com/v/e8ce6fac-2095-4 ... 6ec0323ec4 #RoadToRio #WeAreTeamCanada

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Comeback For Rio....

Post by IceManLikeGervin » Mon Mar 07, 2016 6:07 pm

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A coach's punishment for a bad practice, says Lizanne Murphy, is to make players run.

During the "dark stage" of her recovery from knee surgery, the veteran member of Canada's women's basketball team would have killed to run.

"When you're injured, the only thing you want to do is run," Murphy said.

"As soon as you can run, it's really the one thing you want to do."

The 31-year-old from Beaconsfield, Que., is on the mend from tearing her anterior cruciate ligament while playing for her pro team Angers in France on Nov. 29, and said she's on pace to play in the Olympics this summer in Rio.

"Literally when I was sitting there holding my knee right after it happened, I counted the months right away, to see if I could make it for the Olympics," Murphy said in a phone interview from France. "I do have time.

You always want more time to recover from an injury, but I definitely have enough."

Murphy had her surgery in France and is doing her rehabilitation there.

Having four fellow Canadians nearby helps — Shona Thorburn and Katherine Plouffe are 45 minutes away, while Kim Gaucher and Michelle Plouffe are a two-hour drive. She flies home to Montreal every three weeks to work with a physiotherapist and strength coach.

Countless hours in the weight room paid off recently when she was cleared to run. She underwent a Cybex Test, which measures the strength differences between the two legs, and needed a discrepancy between the healthy and injured leg of 40 per cent or better.

"In my head I wanted to be about 20 per cent," she said. "So all I did. . . oh my gosh I was just lifting every single day, 20 bazillion times, I feel like I've done a million squats in the last month. But it worked out because I only had a discrepancy of 20 per cent. For three months post-op it's amazing actually. Usually people hope to be at that point at around five to six months. So it's going really well."

She's been shooting for almost two months.

"It was really cool the day I was allowed to start shooting again, but then after that, you just live on a bike and in the weight room until you're strong enough that you can run. Those were the dark days because it's really long and you're not doing anything new and fun, all the cool stuff seems so far away," she said. "But now that I'm running, I see the light at the end of the tunnel, like: 'Oh my gosh, I'm so close to returning to play.'

Even though it's a lot of weeks away, it feels a lot closer."

Murphy has been a Canadian team mainstay for almost a decade. She played in the 2012 London Olympics where Canada reached the quarter-finals, then at the 2014 world championships where Canada finished fifth.

The 6-1 small forward was one of the veteran leaders on the team that won gold at both last summer's Pan American Games in Toronto and the FIBA Americas Olympic qualifying tournament.

She doesn't foresee major changes to personnel for Rio, and said the key for her will be to prove she's healthy and fit when training camp opens May 17.

"I think I have to be at the best of my ability. If I'm garbage, they for sure won't pick me. That's my motivation every day in rehab: don't be garbage," she said, with a chuckle.

Murphy will be a key piece to the Canadian team in Rio as one of the squad's most vocal leaders.

"We have a lot of different personalities on the team and I'm a very demonstrative one, everybody knows how I'm feeling kind of at all times, the good and the bad," she said. "So it's a positive and a negative for sure. I think I do bring an energy that's maybe unique to me because I've always been like that.

"I love playing for Canada, it is the only reason I come play overseas is to be ready for Canada. It's my whole heart and soul. So I hope people see that and I hope my teammates feel that, because it's really how I feel."

The Canadian women are No. 9 on the most recent FIBA rankings, and should be considered a medal hope in Rio.

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