Thirteen Serie A1 championships. Seventeen Italian Cups. A constant presence in EuroLeague Women.
What defines Beretta Famila Schio isn't the trophies already in the case. It's the standard of daily preparation that keeps putting them there.

Championships in professional basketball are rarely decided in the final minute of a game. More often, they are determined months earlier in empty gyms, where thousands of repetitions quietly shape the shots players trust when the pressure arrives.

At Famila Schio, that philosophy has built the most decorated club in Italian women's basketball history.

Elite shooters aren't confident because they believe in themselves. They're confident because they've done it so many times that the movement requires no thought. The body already knows. The mind gets out of the way.

That certainty isn't discovered in a game-winning moment. It's manufactured in training — rep by rep, drill by drill — long before the crowd arrives and the score starts to matter.

The club understands this at an institutional level. It's why Italy's most decorated women's basketball club added the Dr. Dish CT+ to its daily training environment. And it's why what happens in their gym before the season begins quietly determines what happens when the season is on the line.

A Standard Built Over Decades

Founded in 1973 in the northern Italian town of Schio — a community of fewer than 40,000 people — Famila has grown into the benchmark for women's basketball in Italy. What began as a local club has evolved into a perennial powerhouse competing at the highest level of European basketball.

Thirteen league championships. Seventeen Italian Cups. Fourteen Supercups — including the most recent in 2025.

Today the club competes in EuroLeague Women under head coach Víctor Lapeña, featuring players including Costanza Verona, Cecilia Zandalasini, and Jessica Shepard.

This is not a club that chases trends. It invests in what works.

Which is exactly what makes their decision to integrate Dr. Dish into daily training worth paying attention to.

What Costanza Verona Said

Guard Costanza Verona is one of Famila's key players. Her assessment of the machine is direct — and more instructive than it first appears:

"It's a very useful tool to perfect your shooting form. In a short time you can make a lot of shots — which is very important for a shooter."

She doesn't talk about the technology. She doesn't reference the data or the analytics. She talks about shots — volume, form, and time.

Those are the three variables that determine whether a shooting motion becomes automatic or remains effortful. Whether a player arrives at a game-winning moment and feels it as familiar territory — or as something new.

Famila chose Dr. Dish because it delivers on all three simultaneously.

The Infrastructure Behind Automatic Execution

At the professional level, the difference between a good shooting program and a great one isn't intent. Every club wants its players taking more shots. The difference is infrastructure — whether the training environment is actually designed to make high-quality volume possible every day.

With the Dr. Dish CT+, Famila's staff can structure sessions where players take significantly more game-speed shots without increasing court time or staffing. Real-time statistics, zone tracking, and post-session analytics give coaches objective insight into each player's development, while competitive training modes allow the entire roster to work within the same structured session.

Repetition becomes organized, measurable, and accountable — the exact conditions elite skill development requires.

Famila joins the French Women's National Team among elite European programs that have made Dr. Dish central to daily training — part of a growing network that also includes Basketball Löwen Braunschweig and LDLC ASVEL in Lyon.

Across professional clubs, college programs, and training facilities worldwide, more than one million shots are logged on Dr. Dish machines every single day. The players behind those reps aren't hoping their shot holds up when it matters.

They've already made it a thousand times.

What This Means for Women's Basketball in Europe

The clubs winning consistently at the European level — both domestically and in EuroLeague Women — are the ones treating daily training as a system, not a series of isolated sessions.

The gap between good and elite in women's basketball is increasingly being closed not in recruitment, but in development. The player who gets five hundred more quality shooting reps per week than her counterpart — week after week across a full season — arrives at the end of that season as a fundamentally different player.

Famila Schio knows it. And now so does anyone watching how Italy's most decorated club prepares its players for the moments that decide championships.

That's not inspiration.
That's mathematics.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do elite women's basketball clubs use shooting machines in training?

Shooting machines allow players to take significantly more quality repetitions per session without requiring additional court time or coaching staff. At the professional level, volume of deliberate practice — combined with real-time feedback and shot tracking — is one of the most reliable ways to develop automatic shooting mechanics that hold up under competitive pressure.

Which women's basketball clubs in Europe use Dr. Dish?

Dr. Dish is used by several elite European women's programs including Beretta Famila Schio, Italy's most decorated women's basketball club, and the French Women's National Team. These programs integrate Dr. Dish into daily training to deliver structured, high-volume repetition alongside real-time analytics and video feedback.

What is Dr. Dish and how is it used at the professional level?

Dr. Dish is a basketball shooting machine and player development platform used by professional teams, college programs, and elite clubs worldwide. It delivers high-volume, game-speed passing and ball return while tracking live statistics, shooting percentages by zone, and post-session analytics — giving coaches objective data and players structured, accountable repetition.

What is the difference between the Dr. Dish Rebel+, All-Star+, and CT+?

All three commercial models share the same footprint and core hardware.

Rebel+ — Fully programmable and built for efficiency and volume on a defined budget.
All-Star+ — Adds the Training Management System, advanced analytics, and 250+ professionally designed workouts.
CT+ — The flagship model featuring a 21.5" touchscreen, multiplayer training, offline capability, dynamic leaderboards, and on-demand training from professional coaches and trainers.

The Dr. Dish commercial lineup — Rebel+, All-Star+, and CT+ — is available across Europe through authorized dealers. Whether you're building a youth academy, a national program, or a EuroLeague-level club, there's a machine built for your environment.

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