Welcome to Aussie Hoops. Basketball Australia’s official junior game development program for 5-10
year olds and their families. At all levels being a coach often provides a richly rewarding experience. Your involvement as an Aussie Hoops Coach is likely to be no different. In fact, the opportunity to provide participants with a ‘defining moment’ in basketball is extremely important in the overall pathway of Australian players. As a coach, you’re developing the next generation of basketball players in Australia and contributing both to the success of our sport and its sustainability.
With the program’s recent refresh come some exciting changes for coaches. As a critical piece of the puzzle you will be provided with additional resources that will support you and the delivery of your local Aussie Hoops program. In addition, Basketball Australia has also synced the national coaching curriculum to the program meaning the content and direction provided is fully approved and endorsed by your governing body and us here at the Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence. The opportunity for you to develop and grow as a coach starts here in our national Aussie Hoops program. This program is all about the participants and the opportunity that you as a coach will provide them in achieving personal success in terms of competence, enhanced self-esteem, social co-operation, skill development and maximum participation will be truly invaluable.
As coaches, we encourage you to embrace the content and resources and utilise them when delivering your local Aussie Hoops sessions. Sequentially developed session cards for all three staged programs will assist your delivery and ensure your local centre participants are receiving the same quality of delivery as other local centre participants nation-wide. As we continue to push for national consistency, you play an integral role in this outcome.
In closing, we thank you for your support of and commitment to Australian basketball. On behalf of the Australian Boomers and Australian Opals we wish you well in coaching the future of our great game.
Enjoy your involvement and most of all, have fun.
Andrej Lemanis
Boomers Head Coach
Brendan Joyce
Jayco Opals Head Coach