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BASKETBALL KIMBERLEY
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KIMBERLEY
KIMBERLEY
HIGH PERFORMANCE
3X3 STREETBALL
In 2020 our High Performance Program was expanded to include two Squads, West and East Kimberley. In total 52 players aged between 10 – 16 years from across the region were selected to our squad and attended multiple training camps throughout the year. Our camps focused on giving local players the opportunity to learn about the WA Style of play and improve both their individual and team fundamentals, to prepare to attend the BWA Hotshots Jamboree, Southern Cross Challenge and State Performance Program (SPP) trials.
A record five Kimberley based athletes travelled to Perth to trial for SPP in 2020 with two players Marcellus Bear #17 and Zimmarley Williams-Wilson #40, both from Derby Basketball Association, selected to the 2020 U18 and U16 SPP Squads respectively.
2020 also brought another very exciting milestone for our Kimberley High Performance Program with Marcellus Bear becoming the first ever Kimberley based State Representative Player, when selected to the Western Australian U16 Men’s Country Team.
Whilst Covid19 robbed him of a chance to actually participate in National Championships, Marcellus’s breakthrough of making a State Team, while based in our remote region, has inspired many young local players to believe in themselves and have the confidence to chase their basketball dreams.
Basketball Kimberley would like to thank the Perth Redbacks Organisation for all their support during 2020, including all the families who billeted our Kimberley athletes while down in Perth for elite programming. Their generosity not only assists with the cost of travel to Perth, but has also allowed some amazing friendships to develop between families from both regions, as they learn about each other’s lifestyles and cultures.
Our Basketball Kimberley 3x3 Streetball Program was again a very popular program in 2020 with a total of 689 individual contacts (opportunities to influence) made at six different program sites (One Arm Point, Halls Creek, Looma, Noonkanbah, Kununurra, Wyndham).
3x3 Streetball combines basketball, music, and LifeSkills Lessons adopted from and based on the Botvin LifeSkills Model. The program targets boys/girls aged 11-15 living in remote Kimberley communities, where at best only ad hoc and irregular sporting programs currently occur.
At each 3x3 Streetball site we implement a multi-week formal program that teaches individual basketball fundamentals and team concepts but just as importantly serves as a platform for social development and inclusion - fostering stronger and more resilient and vibrant communities and individuals.
A major goal of the 3x3 streetball program is to encour- age teenage participants to choose to ‘be their best’ through building awareness of the importance of living a healthy lifestyle (physical, mental, emotional), setting and pursuing goals and dreaming big! The Alcohol and Drug Foundation and Healthway are major supporters of this program – thank you so very much for your support. It allows us to achieve some major social outcomes across the Kimberley region!!