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Will Magnay has been named captain of the Tasmania JackJumpers. Image \/ NBL<\/p>\nWill Magnay has been handed the captaincy of the Tasmania JackJumpers by his teammates, with foundation skipper Clint Steindl stepping aside.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old, a stalwart since the JackJumpers\u2019 NBL debut, will lead the club into the 2025\u201326 season with veteran guard Anthony Drmic as his deputy.<\/p>\n
Magnay\u2019s promotion comes fresh off captaining the Boomers to gold at last month\u2019s FIBA Asia Cup in Saudi Arabia, adding international leadership credentials to his r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s an incredible honour to be named captain of this club,\u201d Magnay said. <\/p>\n
Will Magnay has been named captain of the Tasmania JackJumpers. Image \/ NBL<\/p>\n
\u201cTasmania means a lot to me and to be trusted to lead this group of guys and represent this state in that way is something I take very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n
The leadership change was decided by a player vote after the team\u2019s NBL Blitz campaign, with Steindl personally delivering the news to the squad on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
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Former captain Clint Steindl. Image \/ Kishka Jensen<\/p>\n
For Magnay, receiving the role from his long-time teammate made the moment especially meaningful.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor him to pass down to me was really cool and a moment I never thought I would cherish things like that, but I really do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The centre believes his recent international experience will hold him in good stead.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really learnt to keep a cool head when the other [Boomers] guys were looking to me in tough moments,\u201d Magnay said.<\/p>\n
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Anthony Drmic will serve as deputy to captain Will Magnay. Image \/ Supplied<\/p>\n
Drmic, who joined the JackJumpers in 2022\u201323, said being chosen by teammates gave the appointment extra weight.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a cool way to do captaincy, having the players vote because those are the guys you go to war with and they get to pick their leaders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The new leadership duo will face their first test when the JackJumpers host Melbourne United in their season opener at MyState Bank Arena on September 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Will Magnay has been handed the captaincy of the Tasmania JackJumpers by his teammates, with foundation skipper Clint…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-117881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}