Club Info
Port Hunter 2022 Winter Club Comp
Competition Starts: Week beginning April 25
Semi Finals: Week beginning September 12
Grand Finals: Week beginning September 19
There will be no games scheduled between the 2/7 till 17/07 for the July School Holidays.
Coaches/Managers Practice Huddle
Club Coach Courses scheduled for July
See below for details.
Port Hunter encourage our Coaches to complete the Club Coach course.
The Club will refund the Course Fee for our coaches who complete the course.
Club Coach Course @ Newcastle Basketball Stadium –
Saturday 2nd of July, 2022
10:30am to 4:30pm
Newcastle Basketball Stadium – 27 Young Rd, Broadmeadow NSW 2292
Presenter: Tim Mallon
$100 – https://membership.mygameday.app/regoform.cgi?formID=94066&programID=57632
A Big shout out to our past Port Hunter Juniors playing D1 college basketball in the USA:
Two past Port Hunter juniors Trace Evans at the University of Missouri - Kansas City (KC ‘Roos), and Keegan Harvey at the College of Charleston who begin their sophomore seasons at their NCAA D1 programs.
As juniors playing in Newcastle, Trace and Keegan were often overlooked for Hunters Division 1 rep teams, state teams, SPP and elite programs – but kept working hard and excelling in their age groups in the local junior club competitions.
Another past Port Hunter junior, Isabel Palmer is at the University of Utah. Before she ventured overseas, Isabel attended the Australian Centre of Excellence after playing juniors for Newcastle Hunters, NSW Country, and the Australia U17’s.
Isabel served as team captain and starter for Australia at the 2018 U17 World Cup team, battling through injury before scoring 17 points in the semi-final, leading Australia to the bronze medal.
NSW Basketball Registration
All Players are required to be registered with NSW Basketball - If BNSW Rego is due when joining the Club the BNSW Rego will be required to be paid at the same time as the Port Hunter Membership.
The Active Kids Voucher can be used as payment towards these costs.
https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-active-kids-voucher
Any issues with player payments or AK Vouchers please contact Elyse Hicks. elyse@newcastlebasketball.com.au
To check your BNSW registration details follow this link below.
Coaches/Managers please return your teams set of singlets after they have been washed. They can be dropped off in a bag labelled with the team name at Quinlans Heating & BBQ Centre at the 9 Ways, Broadmeadow.
Coaching
Are you interested in coaching? Please register you interest by completing the Port Coaches Nomination Form below:
https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-working-children-check
About the Club
The Port Hunter Basketball Club was founded in the early 1960's and is the oldest Basketball Club in Newcastle. We celebrated our 50yr anniversary in 2014. It had its beginnings as the Stockton National Fitness Basketball Club. With the success of the Club and the expansion of the member base through the 1970's the Club was renamed in 1980 to the Port Hunter Basketball Club.
Last year the club had 44 teams competing in the Junior Club Competition with 4 teams in the U8's and 9 teams in the U10's competition.
Training is held at the YWCA in Dawson Street Cooks Hill and Genisis Darby St. Days and times to be confirmed as Newcastle Basketball now organise Club training venues.
Our most successful player is Suzy Batkovic who played her junior club basketball with the Port Hunter Club. Suzy was in the Opal team which attend the London Olympics and played in the Townsville Fire team in the WNBL.
