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STATE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
STATE PERFORMANCE PROGRAM
The State Performance Program identifies the State’s most talented athletes and creates an intensive training environment that will “develop and prepare young basketball athletes to represent WA” at an Australian Junior Championship.
Basketball WA believes that the establishment of a direct pathway for athletes in the SPP into the State Team Program will improve the quality of State Team performance into the future.
The 2019/20 SPP consisted of four camps involving both Country and Metro athletes, with the age groups separated in to U16’s and U18’s to accommodate the
increase in scholarship holders. Athletes were also required to attend weekly/fortnightly sessions under the supervision of network coaches.
The Australia day long weekend SPP Camp saw all eight SPP squads come together for BWA’s first Super Camp. All athletes were mixed up into to random teams and had State, Assistant and SCC coaches come in and coach teams across the weekend for a mix of training sessions and games against each other. It was a great weekend and enjoyed by all and many and showed the ability and potential for everyone to work together.
The role of the Department of Sport’s Regional Talent Development Programs (RTDP), along with Regional Academies continue to assist Regional athletes and coaches.
Basketball WA athletes received support from the Peel Regional Academy of Sport (PRAS), the Mid West Academy of Sport (MWAS) and the Great Southern Sports Talent Association (GSSTA).
NATIONAL
PERFORMANCE
PROGRAM
This program continues to cater for the top tier of athletes within WA that have been identified to have the potential to represent Australia. The NPP continues to provide support to those athletes striving towards National Representation.
In consultation with Basketball Australia, the following athletes were awarded NPP scholarships:
• Brooke Malone (Kalamunda) • Hannah Burt (Willetton)
• Shenae Hartree (Willetton) • Ruby Vlahov (Perry Lakes)
• Mia Jacobs (Lakeside)
• Blake Nielsen (East Perth) • Ethan Elliott (Warwick)
• Ben Henshall (Cockburn)
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