Important News:  Pre-Registration days to hold spots for the coming Summer 2019/20 basketball season.

Dear parents and members,

As you may or may not be aware, the basketball club needs to start preparing the sides for next season very soon.  As you can appreciate is a mentally taxing task to  make sure players are placed in correct sides for their development, especially with the summer season being a grading season and also having players going up an age group this season.

Over past seasons, it has become an ominous task chasing fees for which are normally due by Round 3 for each season.  We also need a commitment from players for the upcoming season.

As in the past, we will hold a Pre-Registration Night before the end of this season with which you will be required to pay a minimum $70 per child, towards the following season’s fees to hold a spot in the forthcoming season, otherwise no spot will be held for your child.

Registration nights for next season will be held next week at training sessions beginning on

 – Monday 5^th August 5.45pm – 7pm

–  and Wednesday 7^th August, from 5.00pm – 6.30pm.

We will have an EFTPOS machine available (but there will be a small charge for card use), and we take cash too.

If you cannot attend these nights, please feel free to deposit into our bank (details below) stating current team and surname

(eg: GU14 Rupo3  SMITH)

Or you can put $70 in an envelope with your current team and surname, and pass onto any of our committee members (David Mott, Julie McSwiggan, Tanya Hennessy, or Neale Fleming).

Bank Account Details:

Bank Name:  BENDIGO BANK LIMITED
Account Name:  Rupertswood Basketball Club Inc.
BSB/Account No:  633-000/122175672

We will also have a form for you to fill out to update details, etc.  It will be out soon.

If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact David Mott (President),  Tanya Hennessy (Treasurer), Neale Fleming (Junior Delegate) or myself (Secretary).  

Kind Regards,

Julie McSwiggan, Secretary
Rupertswood Basketball Club Inc.
0417 523 156

Things to be aware of as a parent/supporter that you may not already know about….

It will come as no surprise to anyone that inappropriate behaviour from parents regularly mar children’s sport. Our club unfortunately are not exempt from such issues. It is an embarrassment to our club and its members to be associated with poor behaviour.

Codes of Conduct issued by Basketball Victoria (BV) apply to every player, parent, spectator and official. BV empowers the SBA to expel and/or exclude anybody from attending stadiums or competing on court who transgresses conduct codes. Long suspensions/bans are common.

Government legislation is in place to protect children involved in sporting and social activities. Serious legal consequences can apply where inappropriate behaviours around children occur. You all may be very surprised as to what is deemed to be inappropriate. Our tip is that any interaction should be avoided.

What does this mean for parents/adults attending sporting events?

In junior basketball-related activity it means the following;

1. No parent is permitted to have any interaction before, during or after a match with any player, coach or official (other than their own child).

2. There is an exclusion zone around team benches and scorebenches whereby adults must observe a reasonable distance so as to not have any detrimental verbal or physical impact on players, officials, or the on court activity.

No parent or adult is permitted to physically approach benches. If a parent has an urgent need to attend to their child’s needs they must call the child (player) away from the exclusion zone.

Complaints

Any complaints need to be directed to the club committee who will deal with it in an appropriate manner.

Any verbal complaints, negative comments or abuse need to be kept to yourself. Please use common sense and talk to someone only as you would want someone to talk to you.

Consequences 

Our club will not tolerate poor behaviour from anybody, regardless of circumstance. 

Our club will escalate official action to deal with unsavoury incidents and will fully support the harshest possible penalties  that can be applied by the SBA.

So  please THINK BEFORE YOU ACT !!

Support our kids, support our game, support the future of basketball

Training and Information Night
Thursday 14th March 2019
6.15pm – 9pm at Mallauna College
Cnr Springfield & Mitcham Roads, Mitcham

Melbourne Warriors Basketball Club are running a USA Girls Basketball Tour in 2019. The tour is happening between late June early July 2019. We have a team set to go and the training has already begun to help the girls prepare. We are currently a team of 9 players but would like to take 12 girls over to the USA and so we are after a few more girls who might be interested in joining the 2019 tour.

The current lot of Girls all currently play Rep basketball but its not mandatory. The age group of the Girls we need are in the U16-U18 age group.

If you think there might be some interest from any girls from your club or association then we would love them to attend the next training session Thursday March 14th.

Go to melbournewarriors.com.au for more information or please email or call Ben (0425 8930 938) to discuss further.

If any Girls or parents wish to attend we will have a question and answer session after the Training session.

Our next Training is Thursday March 14th.
All sessions begin 6:15 to 8pm at Mullauna College.

Melbourne Warriors USA Basketball Tour 2018

ABOUT THE COACH – GARY JONES
Gary Jones is the Head Coach for the Sherbrooke Suns Senior Women’s BIG V Program as well as the 18.1 MUVJBL Boys program. Gary is a highly regarded informative style coach who leads and directs his teams through clear and descriptive guidance. He has developed a strong reputation for building strong team orientated programs with an emphasis on combined contributions to deliver successful results. He is a player first Coach meaning his true focus is on developing his players to be individually accountable and self motivated to achieve overall success within any team environment they find themselves in on and off the court.

To register your interest please visit:
www.melbournewarriors.com.au or email
tour@melbournewarriors.com.au

Join us in congratulating Jasmine Weaver on selling the most boxes during our Cadbury Fundraiser.

Jasmine managed to sell 8 boxes!! Wow, what a fabulous effort Jasmine!

Thank you to everyone for your contribution and helping to raise money for the Club.

Jasmine is pictured with our club president David Tweedly receiving her $100 gift card for her efforts.

The SBA is having a stall at the Minds Matter Day on the Village Green tomorrow and they will be giving away water bottles so come on down and say hi!

Please listen and provide some feedback

Congratulation to the 9 teams that made the 2017 Summer Grand Finals last week. An amazing effort from everyone and congratulations to all teams!

Scores for games and coaches names are as follows:

12 C Boys Lockie Wilkes – Rupo 20 v Dodgers 28 Runners up

12 C Girls Phil Mifsud – Rupo 6 v Lions 17 Runners up

14 B Girls Louise Martino – Rupo 32 v Bulldogs 24 Premiers

14 C Girls Georgia Watson – Rupo 12 v Saints 30 Runners up

16 B Boys Nathan D’Amato – Rupo 37 v Bulldogs 34 Premiers

16 C Girls David Tweedly – Rupo 32 v Dodgers 29 Premiers

19 A Boys Mandy Bell – Rupo 45 v Superoos 39 Premiers

19 B Boys Marks Harris – Rupo 27 v Braves 56 Runners up

19 C Girls David Tweedly – Rupo 28 v Braves 16 Premiers

Please note that due to lack of numbers, our trivia night scheduled for this Saturday 4th March has been cancelled :(