North Brisbane Basketball's Term 1 B.L.A.S.T.^TM program has now completed its station activities with the final week scheduled with full court tournament games.

Dragon's Committee would like to acknowledge the contributions that members of our Dragons Community have made as B.L.A.S.T.^TM station coaches over the last 8 weeks:

• 7 year Dragon and former junior player Darryl Danker;
• 11 year Dragon and GBL Women’s Gold player Kelly West;
•  Current GBL Women’s Gold coach Dwayne Vigilance;
•  GBL Men’s Gold player and former U18 Div 1 coach Brenton (Farmy) Mackie;
•  3 year Dragon, current U16 girls coach and GBL Women’s Gold player Steph Alekna;
•  U14 Div 1 and Div 3 boys coach David Tealby;
• GBL Men’s Silver player and 9 year Dragon Matt Baker;
• 30 something year Dragon, life member, Property Officer and current Girl’s Youth League coach Jan West;
• Current U10 girls coach, U16 player and 5 year Dragon Jaiden Parker;
• U16 player and 3 year Dragon Sam Richards;
• GBL Men’s Gold player Brendan Graham;
• Girl’s Youth League player and 3 year Dragon Cara Callaghan;
• Girl’s Youth League player and 10 year Dragon Kassy Howell;
• GBL Women’s Gold player Cadi Weekes; and
• Former Dragon, Bullets and Boomers player Robert Sibley.

The contribution each of these Dragon’s Community members made to B.L.A.S.T.^TM is significant in ensuring the success of our program. All of our Dragon’s Committee sincerely appreciate their contributions to our Dragons educating Dragons philosophy.

Dragons also thanks former President David Weale for his contribution in arranging Robert Sibley’s visit to B.L.A.S.T.^TM in week 8.

Our B.L.A.S.T.^TM program has been designed solely by Dragon’s and is unique to our Club. B.L.A.S.T.^TM is making a significant contribution to the development of basketball at the lower age level within the Brisbane Basketball Club area including:

• Close to 150 new players exposed to the game in 4 sessions of delivery;
• Parents with knowledge of basketball and exposure to programs in other Clubs acknowledging they had never seen a program as good as B.L.A.S.T.^TM 6eleven;
• Our ability to motivate our Club players to volunteer to contribute to delivering the training when other programs struggle to provide paid program coaches;
• Our Term 1 2010 program attracting far more participants than the program delivered by Brisbane Basketball;
• Our ability to keep our participants active and interested for up to 20 hours of training and development compared to the 5 to 7 hours offered by other similar programs.

Dragons will again be running B.L.A.S.T.^TM in Term 3 commencing July 10. Registrations are now being taken.  Contact Tom Coogan on Mob 0439 747 328, Work 3350 3599 or email blast@dragonsbasketball.asn.au.