Townsville Basketball Rebounding Back to Competition
TOWNSVILLE BASKETBALL REVAMPS ITS COMPETITIONS
Townsville Basketball, its Board and its six clubs, have taken to the time away from the court to work on a new competition structure for the future of local basketball in Townsville to help the Association grow into a greater force in the local sporting community.
The major changes come in the Junior Competition structure where the association will move to a Summer and Winter season model instead of its previous competitions which ran in line with the first half and second half of a calendar year.
“The closure allowed us to complete a comprehensive review of our operations and examine what we could do to try and help the sport take a leap forward”, said Townsville Basketball General Manager Mark Wrobel. “When we examined our membership trends over the past decade, we knew we needed to make some changes to how we were doing things if we wanted to make any significant gains in our membership base.”
“One of the issues we identified within our Junior Structure was that our previous competition design limited our scope to gain new players as we were directly competing against almost every junior sport because of how our seasons ran.”
“This change will allow participants of other sports who may have wanted to play basketball but weren't able to make it work because of clashes of seasons, to finally have the opportunity to play our great game.”
Another significant change to recent history has been the separation of season structures between the Junior and Senior competitions.
“When we met with our clubs we didn’t identify the need to make the same drastic changes with the Senior competition and their changes have been more around season length and allowing for more social basketball to be introduced into the calendar.”
“This will include the introduction of new Masters competitions for our older athletes who don’t necessarily want to chase the younger athletes around a court.”
The changes to structure will be implemented immediately on the return to the court after the easing of Stage 3 Restrictions on the Queensland Government Roadmap to Recovery around July 10th.
Townsville Basketball will see a return to the court in a limited capacity for training and shooting sessions from June 13th and are waiting on final confirmation from Basketball Queensland and the State Government on the exact details of what will be allowed.
“We are working with our clubs to come up with a schedule that can try and get as many of our members back on the court in June”.
“As Basketball Queensland have pushed on with the intention to run our Junior State Championships later in the year it is also a priority to get our representative teams back on the court and face to face as soon as possible”.
More details can be found in the attached documents:
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