Front Page
Logout

Advertisement

/

Junior Coasters kickstart season

PORTLAND’S junior Coasters representative basketballers will take to the court in their first tournament for the season tomorrow in Hamilton.

It has been a big build up for the players who began try outs in July ahead of the season which runs from October through to April next year.

While they will travel throughout the region and country Victoria to compete in tournaments across the next few months, the tournament this weekend will showcase their training preparation.

“It’s clearly great to be back and exciting for the athletes to be able to execute what they have been working on for the past four months while training in their teams,” junior Coasters committee member Anna Impey said.

“We have some real talent and depth across the entire representative squad, with many of the players in the Basketball Victoria system, so we know what we are doing is working and giving these kids the best opportunity possible (from the program).

“We are attending the usual tournaments with the next few months being pretty busy, with Hamilton, Millicent, Warrnambool, Horsham, Mount Gambier and Shepparton…so we will be seeing a fair bit of the countryside, but it’s a great way to play sport.”

With multiple divisions in most of the boys teams and a division two side for the under-14 girls has highlighted growing numbers in the system.

“An inclusion this season is a division two in the under-14 girls, so it’s great to see some bigger numbers coming up through the girls, it would be about five or six years since we have had a division two side in any female teams, I think,” Impey said.

“Our coaches are working closely together, they all catch up once a month, it provides them with a sense of inclusion too, and allows them to bounce off each other…we have a mix of experienced and new coaches so that’s important to have that connection.”

Impey said joining the Coasters program is a big ask across summer and it wouldn’t be possible without plenty of support.

“Thanks to the Portland Secondary College, Bayview and Bundarra for the use of their facilities, without them we would struggle for training venues,” she said.

“Obviously the committee and everyone involved works hard to run the program.

“A big thanks to parents too.”

More From Spec.com.au

ADVERTISEMENT

Latest

ADVERTISEMENT

crossmenu