Paul Salter Awarded Life Membership
Life membership has been awarded to Paul Salter for his many years of service and dedication to Murray Bridge Basketball.
Paul has had a long history with the Murray Bridge Basketball Association (MBBA) and has held many positions in the association - player, coach, committee member and worker. This year Paul has taken on the role of Vice President of the MBBA.
Top honour: Pictured is Paul Salter (left) receiving life membership to the MBBA from current president David Schenscher.
During his years with the MBBA Paul has played right through from the junior to senior grades. Paul represented his State in basketball in 1980 as an SA County Under 16 player and a SA Metro squad member in 1981 in Under 18’s. Paul represented Murray Bridge Bullets at many Country Championships over the years as a player and coach.
Paul played junior and senior district basketball for Forestville from 1980 to 1982 and in 1983 was in the first Murray Bridge Bullets Men’s team to play district basketball in Adelaide. Paul has played with many great players including Al Green, Dwayne Nelson and Ricky Simpson and against some of the legends of the game Mark Davis, Darryl Pearce, Peter Ali and Bill Jones.
Paul’s coaching career started in 1999, coaching local teams for the Saints basketball club and in 2003 began coaching in the Murray Bridge Bullets program. 2005 saw Paul coaching Eastern Mavericks in the District Competition and in April 2005 he gained his NCAS level 2 coaching certificate.
In 2006 Paul became the Murray Bridge Development Network Squad Program (DNSP) Head Coach of the Senior Men’s and Women’s squad. Paul is still the head coach of the senior squad, putting many hours into this role to develop our local players. Paul experience and knowledge for the game was rewarded in 2006 with Paul being assistant coach for SA Country U/18 Men’s assistant coach at the Albury Cup and National Championships.
2007 saw Paul promoted to the Head Coach of the SA Country u/18 Men’s team, a position he still holds this year.
Paul’s dedication and expertise with coaching over the years had benefited many junior and senior players not only within our Association but the State. Paul remains a dedicated member of the MBBA and a role model for our younger members and continues to have the passion and love of basketball that he had when he started.
Paul was awarded his life membership at the recent MBBA Annual General Meeting.
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