{"id":940878,"date":"2026-10-21T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940878\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:32:09","slug":"toronto-tempo-coach-sandy-brondello-to-join-sport-australia-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940878\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo coach Sandy Brondello to join Sport Australia Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792557129_653_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello speaks to the media before a WNBA basketball game against the New York Liberty in Montreal, on Sunday, July 12, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Graham Hughes<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tOct 20, 2026 | 7:45 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello will be inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>The WNBA team that just completed its first season in the league announced Tuesday that Brondello is one of seven members of a class that will be inducted in November in Melbourne. <\/p>\n<p>She will enter as an athlete. Brondello, a four-time Olympian, played 302 games for Australia and helped the country earn its first Olympic medal in women\u2019s basketball in 1996 with bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Brondello and her Australian teammates went on to take silver in Sydney, Australia, in 2000, and silver again four years later in Athens, Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Tempo head coach Sandy Brondello speaks to the media before a WNBA basketball game against the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[49,48,82,630],"class_list":["post-940878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}