News

Hi everyone, hope you have all been well. I’m sure everyone is extremely happy to have some decent news in regards to our return to sport. While it’s important that we realize things will be different than before, it is a fantastic start and most importantly gives the kids an opportunity to get some normalcy back. All of this is subject to change but we are only capable of controlling what we can control so below I will inform on what we have discussed so far and what direction we will head if all things remain unchanged:

At this point we will have our first rep training next Thursday the 25th and then the following Sunday the 28th.

Times and court spaces will be the same as before except that we are only allowed to train for 40 minutes. This will give ample time to have the groups interchange as separately as possible and allow a wipe down in between.

Parents and siblings must wait outside of the stadium. We are only allowed a small number of people per court so unfortunately we are only allowed the coaching staff, team manager and players for that specific time slot. Please work with us on this as I understand it is not ideal but this is a very important factor in us being able to return earlier rather than later. We would greatly appreciate if you do not try to “sneak in” or manipulate the situation by appointing more people to the coaching staff or team managers role.

Only players 18 and under may train. Unfortunately that means our senior teams and u21 teams will not be allowed to train just yet but we are hoping for those restrictions to be lifted by Basketball Victoria in the next couple weeks.

Next Tuesday night at 7pm we will have a coach and team manager zoom session to update everyone on the process and guidelines we are being asked to follow by BV as well as any other updates we have received by then. I will send that link in the next couple days.
So if we can all follow these guidelines we should be back to as close to normal before we know it. We’re extremely excited to see everyone again especially the kiddos and how much they have grown. Let’s remember that they are the reason we are all here in the first place so while the guidelines are still not ideal for us old folk we can sit back and let the kids be kids.

Ps, apologies to anyone who has tried to contact me through email as our mail servers have been acting up the last 2 months and I am currently locked out of my account. We are in the process of switching all of our emails to a new server which will hopefully be done in the next couple of days.