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QUEENSLAND SET TO HOST 2020 CHEMIST WAREHOUSE WNBL SEASON The Queensland Government’s support along with that of the Cairns Regional Council, Mackay Regional Council and the City of Townsville, will see Cairns, Mackay and Townsville host a revised season structure from November 12, where each team will contest 14 games as part of a 56-game…

CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE WELCOMES NEW SCHOLARSHIP RECRUITS The CoE and NBA GA programs, based at the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) in Canberra, will welcome Josh Hughes (NBA GA), Fiston Ipassou (CoE) and Alex Toohey (NBA GA) into the high-performance environment where they will train daily under the leadership of elite coaches. All three athletes…

Bulla Local Heroes – Vote for the Overall Winner! After receiving plenty of entries from the community – highlighting your favourite unsung champions of the basketball landscape, including volunteers, administrators, coaches and managers – we’ve narrowed it down to our four weekly winners – Andrew Cipriano, Ulli Austermann, Ken Numa and Kate Sewell! You can make…

Bulla Local Heroes – Week 4 Winner announced! Kate Sewell has been announced as our last weekly winner in the Bulla Local Heroes competition, presented by Basketball Victoria. Kate was nominated by Jeff Hintum who had this to say in the nomination about Kate’s amazing work with Warrnambool’s junior girls basketball program. “When Kate started,…

Bringing the baller to Zoom Let everyone know the baller you are! With many Victorians still working or studying in the same seat… of the same room… in the same house… for most of 2020… we thought it’s time for a change. It’s time to spice up your Zoom sessions with these Basketball Victoria backgrounds…

Victorian 2020 and 2021 Representative Teams and Events Update With Victoria navigating its way through the Victorian Governments COVID-19 restriction roadmap, and with the focus on a successful return of grassroots basketball for the community, Basketball Victoria (BV) has the following event and representative team updates below. SOUTHERN CROSS CHALLENGE – 2021 EVENT CANCELLED Without a clear return to interstate travel due to current border restrictions, as well…

CLUB PRIDE SHINES BRIGHT WITH WILLETTON Bev Hales, a Willetton gold medal winning team manager in 2001, has described the Under-14s Championships to be a high-class event which provides a once in a lifetime opportunity for the young athletes that qualify. “It’s exciting qualifying at club level for the Under-14 Nationals. It’s the beginning of…

HOW BASKETBALL PLAYED A LEADING ROLE IN SYDNEY 2000 Basketball Australia (BA) Hall of Famer and Life Member, Bob Elphinston OAM was appointed the General Manager for the Sydney Bid in May 1991, a role that saw him have responsibility with all sports on the Olympic Programme, and took him through two years of travel…

HEARING-IMPAIRED OFFICIALS INSPIRING OUR COMMUNITY Victorian official Jackson Lakey from the Nunawading branch, can only hear 100 decibels of sound, which is considered profound deafness. Despite his hearing impairment, Lakey has been involved with the basketball community as a game official since he was a young teenager. “When I was 14 or 15, my dad…

Casey to host 2022 Australian U14 Championships The announcement is part of a two-year agreement that will see the Casey Basketball Association host Australia’s most promising junior basketballers at the Australian Under-14 Club Championships over consecutive years (2021 & 2022) at Casey Stadium. The Australian Under-14 Club Championships showcases 48 girls and boys club and…