Dee ihe ndị ọzọ dị na paragraf a - Phillips malitere ọzụzụ n'òtù egwuregwu bọọlụ basketball mba Australia nke ụmụ nwanyị, bụ́ ndị a na-akpọ Opals, na 2005. Ọ họọrọ isonye na ogige ọzụzụ na njem na ndị otu mba kama isonyere Connecticut Sun na WNBA, bụ onye mere ya na Mee nke afọ ahụ. Ọ gbara ọtụtụ asọmpi ngosi na China na July, wee nyere ndị Opals aka iru eru maka asọmpi World Championship na-esote n'afọ na August na mmeri ha na Oceania Qualifying Series megide ndị ọbịa New Zealand na August. Egwuregwu mba ụwa nke mbụ nke Phillips bụ Commonwealth Games
na March 2006, nke Melbourne kwadoro ma tinye basketball maka oge mbụ. N'ụlọ ha n'Australia, ndị Opals nwetara ihe nrite ọlaedo n'asọmpi basketball ụmụ nwanyị, na-emeri New Zealand na ngwụcha site na oke oke. Phillips keere òkè dị mkpa na mmeri ha meriri England na ọkara-ikpeazụ. N'ọnwa na-eso ya, ndị otu mba ahụ kwadoro asọmpi Opals World Challenge na Canberra, ebe ha meriri ndị otu bọọlụ bọọlụ basketball nke ụmụ nwanyị United States, ndị na-efunahụghị egwuregwu ọ bụla n'ime afọ asaa, na nke mbụ ya kemgbe 1998.