She played on Australia's "Opals" national team at four Summer Olympics , has coached the team at two more, and won three medals one bronze, two silvers as a player and one bronze medal as a coach.
Brondello grew up in Mackay, Queensland , where her parents had a sugar cane farm. At the age of 9, she started to play basketball in a grass court her father built in the backyard [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Brondello's career began in Australia's Women's National Basketball League , where she was named the Australian Basketball Player of the Year in She was selected by the Indiana Fever in late 's expansion draft , but never played a game for them, being traded to the Miami Sol along with a first-round pick for Stephanie White.
After sitting out of the season due to a foot injury playing for Wuppertal during the WNBA offseason, [ 5 ] Brondello signed as a free agent with the Seattle Storm in , joining fellow Australians Lauren Jackson and Tully Bevilaqua. Brondello was one of the top three-point shooters in league history, her.
On the Australian National Team , Brondello joined the team before the age of 18 and remained on the Opals for 17 years, [ 4 ] and her games made Brondello the third most capped Australian player, behind Robyn Maher and Karen Dalton.
Brondello's tournaments with Australia include four World Championships , with two bronze medals, and four Olympic tournaments , with two silver medals and a bronze.
