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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 2018/19 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.
Ryan Grove (Basketball WA Head Strength and Conditioning Coach) oversaw the movement screening of athletes and the implementation of Strength and Conditioning Programs across the board with a specific focus working hands on with our NPP athletes.
U16 athletes also participated in the WA Institute of Sport/WA Department of Sport and Recreation’s “Developing Champions” program. 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)
• Daniel Rogers (Perry Lakes)
• Shenae Hartree (Willetton)
• Blake Nielsen (East Perth)
• Tia Morgan (Perry Lakes)
• Ella Thornton Elliot (Perth)
• Nathan Snelgrove (Warwick)
• Joel Burton (Cockburn)
WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP IN
SPORT (WLIS) PROGRAM
BWA in conjunction with IThrive Consulting de- livered a Women’s Leadership in Sport program across 8 weeks. The program was made up of workshops/lectures and a panel Q+A session with female professional athletes and coaches. 10 female BWA High performance athletes were selected from submissions of interested high performance athletes across all BWA pro- grams.
The athletes learnt and practiced leadership, relationship building, emotional support and communication techniques to help them in their quest to be more prominent leaders in their basketball environments.
The program was capped off with a panel discussion and Q&A with Madonna Blyth (ex Hockeyroos captain – 3 Olympics) Lisa Macneill (Australian Junior Volleyball representative) and Lauren Nicholson (Australian Opals member). We like to thank SportsAustralia for the funding to deliver this course.
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