Hello to all our generous and excellent coaches, and all parents and helpers playing a role in this new year of Bairnsdale Basketball.
With the Term 1 season just a few days away, we’ve got a few helpful bits of info and important reminders to make sure you and your team are ready to roll.
Please take just a few minutes to have a read.
Connect With Your Team (if you haven’t already)
You will have received an email this week or last with the names of your players and contact info for parents/carers.
If you haven’t already, it’s really important that you email all the parents, or connect however you prefer, to begin the process of meeting up.
Parents are urged to take active roles as team managers and organisers, but please kickstart this process by reaching out to the parents and suggesting a way to catch up to discuss meeting up, training, rosters etc.
You can see and download a printout of all the teams in your age division at https://bdaba.com.au/graded-teams/
Sunday Meet Up + Jersey Pick Up
All coaches, parents and players are invited to come and pick up their jerseys at the BARC this Sunday morning, 9 – 11am.
It’s a great opportunity to get your team together, ask questions of the committee, meet other coaches, and get excited about the new season.
That’s this Sunday, 9 – 11am, Court 1 at the BARC.
Coaches Orientation Handout
To help our new coaches hit the ground running, and also to assist our existing coaches, we’ve put together a Coaches Orientation handout with basic comp info, tips and strategies, links to coaching resources, and other useful words of advice.
You can find the Coaches Orientation Handout and other resources for coaches at https://bdaba.com.au/coaches-corner/
Open Training Sessions
We plan to begin open training sessions on the weekend of Feb. 9/10.
These will be free and open to all players in the domestic comp, with separate one-hour sessions for players aged 8 – 12, and players aged 13 – 17.
We are hoping to be able to run these open sessions as often as possible this year.
However, this will be dependent on the availability of experienced coaches to volunteer to run a session.
If you’re interested in helping coach a session, we’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us using the contact form below. (Just write “interested in helping with training sessions” and we’ll get back to you!)
Parent Scorers
Remember one parent has to volunteer to be a scorer each week!
Have one of your parents start a roster. It’s no good when one parent gets lumped with it every week because no one else will learn. Just learn, people. It’s really easy.
A roster for fruit/snacks etc is a good idea too.
Thanks everyone. We hope you have a fun season and enjoy your basketball.