Miscellaneous
Aja Parham-Ammar is in her first season in 2020 as Head Coach of the Southern Districts Womens NBL1 North team, following a very successful playing career. Aja is hoping to take the team she was most recently played in to a 4-peat, with the Spartans women's team winning the title 3 years in a row from 2017, 2018 and 2019.Aja is from New York and played her college career at Division 1 team Boston College, being co-captain in her last 2 seasons. and played in some of the big-game experience including beating UConn to win the Big East Championship. Her professional career has taken her to several European leagues, including playing in Germany, Portugal, Spain, Australia and France. Aja debuted in the WNBA in 2008 with the Seattle Storm (with Australian legend Lauren Jackson) and since being in Australia, played WNBL with the SEQ Stars under Head Coach Shane Heal.While playing, Aja founded and is the lead trainer for SportsMindset, a fitness and training company based in Australia. SportsMindset takes a completely-rounded approach to developing its athletes. It targets both a combination of mental and physical aspects to maximize potential. It involves physical fitness, but it goes beyond that to assist athletes with awareness and confidence. It's an evolution and revolution formed from her personal experiences. Aja worked with the Brisbane Bullets during the 18/19 and 19/20 seasons in the strength and conditioning/high performance areas.In this interview, we recap Aja's stellar playing career from NCAA Division 1, to playing in Europe, the WNBA, and the WNBL and QBL in Australia. In her QBL career from 2017, she averaged 14ppg and 5 assists per game, and we talked about how she plans to bring her competitive approach from playing across to coaching. Aja talks about the work her business SportsMindset does and the work she does with her athletes. You can get in touch with Aja through SportsMindset at https://www.sportsmindset.com.au/ or by email info@sportsmindset.com.au You can follow Aja via the Southern Districts Basketball website at: https://sdbal.com.au/Footnote: This interview was recorded on 15/3/2020, a few weeks before the NBL1 North season was cancelled.