Dan Joyce nostalgic for Hawks

By Tim Keeble
Updated November 5 2012 - 8:46pm, first published June 16 2009 - 11:18am
Dan Joyce
Dan Joyce

Former Wollongong Hawks guard Dan Joyce is keen to return to the club for the 2009-10 NBL season.The son of former Hawks championship-winning coach Brendan Joyce, Dan was a rookie with the Hawks in 2006-07 before heading to the Gold Coast Blaze.He has moved back to Wollongong and is playing with the Sydney Comets in the Waratah Australian Basketball League.The 22-year-old was added to the Australian Boomers squad last week and will attend a four-day training camp at the AIS this weekend.Joyce said his agent was speaking to two clubs, believed to be Wollongong and Adelaide."There's been some interest shown by a couple of clubs, but nothing's concrete yet," he said.Joyce represented Illawarra throughout his entire junior basketball career and would love to reunite with the Hawks."Being back with Wollongong would be awesome," the 191cm playmaker said."It's my home town and I really enjoyed that one year I played here."It'd be great to have the opportunity to come back to the area where I grew up and be a Hawk again."Joyce is part of a 43-man Boomers squad, which includes Hawks free agent Cam Tragardh.A 12-man team will be selected after this weekend's training camp for tours of China, Argentina and Brazil in the lead-up to the FIBA Oceania Championship against New Zealand in August."I was pretty surprised to be added to the squad," Joyce said."I knew I had a pretty good season with the Blaze."Even though we finished at the bottom of the table, I just played my game and it's great to be rewarded for all the work I put in. I'm ecstatic."The training camp will be the first for new national team coach Brett Brown, who has taken over from Brian Goorjian."I've never met Brett, but he has all that experience from being an assistant coach in the NBA and I'm sure I can learn a lot from him," Joyce said."I'm a little nervous but I'm really looking forward to it. "There's a lot of great players who will be there and it's going to be pretty intense, but it'll be a really good experience and I want to get as much out of it as I can."

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