Family Fun Day Sun 15th

Hello Everyone

It will be all hands on deck this Sunday (15th Dec) for Newlands Family Fun Day - 11am to 1pm at the Stadium.
Traditionally, this has been a great day for players and parents alike, but this can only happen with the assistance of many.

We look forward to seeing you all there and if you would like to come down and help set-up or clean up afterwards, help would be apprectiated!

Door entry will by $2.50 per person to cover court hire. Sausages & drinks will be available for $1.00 each.
Raffle tickets will also be sold on the day. Remember to submit your theme song on Saturday - great prizes to win.

We need everyone's help to set up & clean up, please. Come along and have a game with the kids too - who knows, the roving scouts may tap you on the shoulder for the adult teams!

Newsletter NOVEMBER

WELCOME to our November newsletter.

Wow, another season is over. And what a season it was for Newlands. We introduced 7 new junior and 3 adult teams. With all this comes uniforms, team officials, training facilities amongst the excitement of having new people join our club. We also added a fundraising and junior committee to our senior and executive committee. We were able to also supply our coaches with improve training equipment. There will be at least 5 additional teams for our new season. I look around the stadium in awe of our achievements, players in black and white uniform laughing and enjoying themselves. It is a great reward for the many hours a lot of volunteers give so this can happen. We have completed our latest final series. The results are listed below but the words cannot describe how proud I am of all of players, families and members. Well done to everyone. It was great to see so many Newland supporters. I witnessed one game where Newlands supporters filled both sides of the benches. The junior committee organized cheerleading was enormous. Happy to see everyone having fun and enjoying themselves while supporting our teams.

FINALS
Congratulations to all teams.

Junior team results were:
Panthers (under 8 G) – Finals participation Roar (Under 14 girls) – Semi-finalists (new team)
Leopards (under 8 B) – Finals participation (new team) Power (Under 16 boys) - Semi finalists
Colts (under 10 B) – Semi-finalists (new team) Cougars (Under 16 boys) - Premiers
Lightning (under 10 boys) – Preliminary finalists Thunder (Under 16 boys) - Preliminary finalists
Opals (under 10 girls) - Preliminary finalists Grizzlies (Under 16 boys) - Preliminary finalists
Victory (under 12 boys) – Premiers Titans (under 16 boys) – Did not qualify (new team)
Lions (under 12 boys) – Semi finalists Knicks (under 16 girls) – Grand finalists
Pumas (under 12 girls) - Grand finalist Tigers (under 16 girls) – Preliminary finalists (new team)
Wolves (under 12 girls) - Semi-finalists (new team) Storm (under 18 boys) - Premiers
Spirit (Under 14 boys) – Premiers Magic (under 18 boys) – Did not qualify
Kings (under 14 boys) – Did not qualify Crocs (under 20 boys) – Semi-finalists (new team)
Diamonds (Under 14 girls) – Did not qualify

Adult team results were:
All stars (C grade men) – Premiers Chicks (D grade ladies) - Preliminary finalists
Blokes (D Grade men) - Preliminary finalists

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Our club AGM will be conducted at the Coburg Basketball meeting room 6.15 on Monday the 25th of
November. An annual President and Treasurer update will be provided while the positions of President,
Secretary and Treasurer will be vacated and re-elected. Nominations will be accepted only by club
members at the meeting. Position descriptions are available on request to newlands.basketball@gmail.com.
All club members/families are entitled to one vote.

NEW FEES
Our playing fees will also increase to $6.00 per game per player next season. The money should be paid to
the team managers prior to the game starting.
The cost of the door entry is increasing to $2.50 per person from next season. This is paid to the
doorkeeper on entry to all venues.

NEW PLAYERS
New players are wanted for the new season. Invite your friends and family to come and join us.
• 5 to 18 year olds
• Saturday games
• Training included
• Local Coburg venues
• Beginners welcome
Adults are also welcome to join out adult teams playing on Tuesday evenings at the Coburg Basketball
Stadium.

WINTER 2014 SEASON CHANGES
The under 10 competition will change for the winter 2014 season. That is not this new season but the one
starting in May 2014. Changes will include separate boys and girls competition with no mixed teams. There
will be no ladders and finals in the under 10 competitions. The fixtures will be the same as the under 8
format. The season for under 8 and 10 will complete on the preliminary final day with participation awards
presented.

FAMILY FUN DAY
Once again we will be having a family fun day at the end of the year. The date is the 15th of December.
Come along and have some fun with your children and friends. There will be a small charge for participation.
The format will include ½ court basketball games, raffle, theme song competition and sausage sizzle. Pencil
in this date on your calendar so you can’t forget.

FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE
We are conducting a raffle on our family fun day. Books will be sent home with children to be sold in
advance.

NEWLANDS BLOG
Our club blog is now available on line @ http://newlandsbasketballclub.blogspot.com.au/. There is a lot of
information on it including my regular updates and game details.
You can subscribe to it and receive regular updates of information including match game details. There is
no cost to subscribe, membership is free.

JUNIOR COMMITTEE
Thank you to the junior committee for organising the cheerleading during the finals. They are now
organising a club theme song competition. The finalists will present their entry at our family fun day and
prices will be awarded.

ADULT TEAMS
After the participation, support and success of our adult teams we are entering another men’s and ladies
teams. Contact Daphne if you are interested in playing.

TRAINING
There will be changes to our training schedule. We currently conduct training on Mondays and Thursday at
the Coburg Stadium. We are fortunate that most of our teams train at the same times which allow us to
provide back-up support when our volunteer coaches are unavailable. As we grow we need more training
courts, these are not always available. We are enquiring about other options such as outer venues but once
again these are not available when our coaches and players are available. To continue to provide training for
our teams training will change to 40 minutes sessions.

Sessions will start at 4, 4.40 & 5.20 pm.

Monday
Opals Di Crt 1 @ 4 pm
Currently Available Crt 1 @ 4 pm
Colts Greg Crt 2 @ 4 pm
Lightning Tony Crt 2 @ 4 pm
Leopards Wilton Crt 3 @ 4 pm
Rockets Rebecca Crt 3 @ 4 pm
Glory Maddie Crt 4 @ 4 pm
Panthers Belinda Crt 4 @ 4 pm

Bullets 1 David Crt 1 @ 4.40 pm
Bullets 2 David Crt 1 @ 4.40 pm
Victory Jayden Crt 2 @ 4.40 pm
Lions Matt Crt 2 @ 4.40 pm
Kings Ken Crt 3 @ 4.40 pm
Titans Liz Crt 3 @ 4.40 pm
Spirit Jeremy Crt 4 @ 4.40 pm
Thunder Pat Crt 4 @ 4.40 pm

Storm David Crt 1 @ 5.20 pm
Crocs David Crt 1 @ 5.20 pm
Magic Chris Crt 2 @ 5.20 pm
Power Chris Crt 2 @ 5.20 pm
Grizzlies Daphne Crt 3 @ 5.20 pm
Pumas Leanne Crt 3 @ 5.20 pm
Currently Available Crt 4 @ 5.20 pm
Currently Available Crt 4 @ 5.20 pm

Thursday
Wolves Julie Crt 1 @ 4 pm
Sapphires Daphne Crt 1 @ 4 pm
Diamonds Jess Crt 2 @ 4 pm
Knicks Wilton Crt 2 @ 4 pm
Roar Katie Crt 3 @ 4 pm
Tigers Tracey Crt 3 @ 4 pm

ASSISTANT COACHES
Thank you to those people who have responded to our advertisement for assistant coaches. The response
has been good although we still have positions available. If you would like to know more please contact me.
The role would require you to:
• Attend training sessions
• Participate in conducting training drills
• Attend games
• Assist with game day coaching duties
• Other tasks as directed by senior coach
• Attend and successfully complete coaching training (yet to be arranged)
These positions are offered to suitable adults and children associated with our club. Adults will require a
WWC.

SPORTING APPAREL
Newlands merchandise is available on sale at the stadium during Monday training sessions.
Prices are: Drink Bottles $8, Sweat Towels $15, Pens $6, Sweat band set $20, Hoodies $40,
Tee Shirts $30, Bags $40, Personalised Playing Singlets $40 (Reduced to $25 with trade in),
Shorts $40 (Reduced to $28 with trade in).

SAUSAGE SIZZLE
Thank you to the volunteers at the Masters Hardware fundraising sausage sizzle on the Melbourne Cup long
weekend. A fantastic effort by all. Well done everyone who assisted.

BIRTHDAYS
Happy September birthday to the following club members
2nd CJ Poa 8th Olympia Chatziopoulos
11th Miguel Christensen Toner 14th Jordan McDonald
15th Niki Nteris 16th Selin Unal
22nd Christian Delcampo 25th Vanessa Colaiacoro
29th Maeve Bousie
If I have missed anyone, please let me know and have a great birthday.

HAPPY BASKETBALLING
Wilton


THEME  SONG  COMPETITION
The Junior committee are conducting a competition to find a club theme song. Entries will be judged at our family fun day on 15th December. Prizes will be awarded for finalists. First prize will be a $50 Rebel Sports voucher.

AGM 25th November 6:15pm

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Our club AGM will be conducted at the Coburg Basketball meeting room 6.15 on Monday the 25th of November. An annual President and Treasurer update will be provided while the positions of President, Secretary and Treasurer will be vacated and re-elected. Nominations will be accepted only by club members at the meeting. Position descriptions are available on request to newlands.basketball@gmail.com. All club members/families are entitled to one vote.

Regards
Wilton

Games on Saturday GRAND FINALS - come along and cheer!

915 panthers vs leopards C2

1115 Pumas C2

1215 Knicks C2, Victory C3

215 Spirit C1

315 Storm C3

515 Cougars C3

President's Update!! Games, Saturday, Tuesday etc

Hi Team

 

The court plan is ready for Saturday with our first game being a much awaiting clash of under 8 teams at 9.15 and finishing with Cougars at 5.15pm.

As I have previously emailed there is no option to change times so please don't request it.

 

We are hoping to have a cheer squad available and have pom poms available for any volunteers.

 

Hope to see you all there in full voice supporting our teams.

 

On another topic we are conducting registration for our adult teams at 5 pm next Monday for all that are interested in joining our Tuesday night teams. If you are interested please come so we can make sure we have the paperwork and uniforms available.  There is plenty of interest at this stage but we need to confirm our teams and numbers.

 

Hope to see you on Saturday

 

Regards Wilton

Presidents update

As our teams are preparing for the finals it is now time to step up recruiting for next season. We have entered 2 more under 8 teams and 1 under 10 girls team this coming season.These teams this season were full and we have needed to enter extra teams to allow more court time for the players and the chance for new players to join. The growth in these age groups is due to the fantastic work by the coaches and the programs/culture they have created.

Training will continue for all teams during the finals. The courts are available and it is a good opportunity to work on improvements. I am also inviting and expected new players to come along with the view of joining next season.

We will have some new coaches at the same time trying to recruit more. If you are interested please see me.
The adult teams are also entering their respective finals with all teams very competitive. This again is the time to register your interest in playing adult basketball on Tuesday nights for Newlands as we plan to enter extra teams next season. Please see Daphne if you are interested. We would love to have you join and no experience is required.

Good luck to all teams in finals, play with pride, have fun and continue the Newlands culture of respecting and treating all as equals.

Your President
Wilton McDonald

Presidents Update

President update
Time again to give you an update on our club's status.

First I wish to thank and acknowledge the work that Lana contributed to our girls program. It was a sad moment yesterday when she informed me that due to work commitments she could no longer coach her girls team. I did not have the opportunity to thank her as no sooner had she told me and I needed to address other issues. I first met Lana in a coaching course we were doing. Identifying her talents I tried to convince her to join Newlands but true to her character she chose to stay with the club she was then with. I was excited when she later joined us because I knew she was the person who could build our girl's program. Our girls program is very strong at the moment, we have an enormous amount of girls playing for us. We now have several girl's team coaches working with Liz to build our club. But to Lana I give a big thank you, you will be missed and we hope that you continue to play in our ladies team and stay a member of the Newlands Basketball Club.

With Lana's resignation I am looking for a replacement coach. I will not rush in and appoint the first person. I need to get a coach that will suit the ability and personality of the girls. I am also looking for more coaches for next season. We will have positions available in our younger age groups. I plan to enter 4 under 8 teams next season. Currently we have 2 teams that I coach with Belinda and Daphne's assistance. But we need another 3 coaches. There may be other teams that require coaches also. Our growth is enormous as are the opportunities we are providing. Not everyone is cut out to coach, the work can be hard at time but the rewards are very satisfying.

You should now be preparing for our finals. They are just around the corner. Good luck to you all. Our success in the past has been very good. Last year half of our teams played in the grand finals. Overall a third of our teams won their grand finals. I don't know if we can match those results this season but enjoy yourselves and any thing can happen.

This season we have focused on our building our girls & under 8s teams while starting adult teams. The adults teams paly on a Tuesday night providing opportunities for parents, coaches, friends and some of our older juniors. After a slow start all 3 teams are doing well. The ladies are on top of their ladder while both men's team had strong wins last week.

We are a young club and our growth is exciting. We are way beyond where we thought we would be when we started the club. We are one of the biggest club at Coburg and growing. Keep up the good work. I am extremely proud of each of you. We have a lot of new players watching our games and coming to training. Remember to be good role models as you never know when or who is watching.

There is more I could and most likely should add but I will save it for our next newsletter.

Enjoy the day

Your President
Wilton McDonald

Games Sat 3rd August

830 Leopards C1
915 Colts C4, Lightning WP
10 Pumas C3, Panthers C4
1045 Wolves C3, Lions CSHS
1130 Diamonds C2, Victory WP
1215 Spirit C1
1:00 Tigers C1, Knicks C3, Kings WP
145 Titans C1, Thunder C2, Grizzlies C4
2:30 Cougars V Power C1
315 Magic C2, Storm C4

Byes: Crocs, Opals

Games Saturday 27th

8:30 Panthers C2, Lightning C4
9:15 Opals C3, Colts WP
10:00 Leopards C4
10:45 Wolves CSHS
11:30 Diamonds C2, Lions C4, Victory CSHS
12:15 Spirit C1, Kings CSHS
1:00 Tigers C2, Power C4
1:45 Grizzlies, Thunder C3
2:30 Cougars C1, Titans C3
3:15 Crocs C2
4:45 Storm C3, Magin C4
Byes Pumas, Knicks

New training plan

Hi Everyone there is a new training plan - link here.

Assistant Coaches needed

Hi Team

 

Due to the enormous growth in our club and particular our younger teams I am looking for people who would like to assist with coaching.

 

The role would require:

• Attend training sessions
• Participate in conducting training drills
• Attend games
• Assist with game day coaching duties
• Other tasks as directed by senior coach
• Attend and successfully complete coaching training (yet to be arranged)

If you know of people who may be interested please encourage them to speak with me. 

These positions are offered to suitable adults and children associated with our club.

Adults will require a WWC.

 

Enjoy your day.

 

Regards

Wilton

 

Games Sat 20th

8:30 Leopards C1

9:15 Opals C3, Lightning WP

10:00 Pumas v Wolves C3, Panthers C4, Colts WP

10:45 no games for Newlands

11:30 Diamonds C2, Lions C3, Victory CSHS

12:15 Spirit C1

1:00 Knicks C3, Kings CSHS

1:45 Cougars C1, Thunder C2, Grizzlies C3

2:30 Power C2, Titans C3

3:15 Crocs C3

4:00 Magic C1

4:45 Storm

Byes Tigers

Games Sat 13th July

830 Leopards C1,  Lightning v Colts WP

915 Opals C3

10:00 Wolves C1, Pumas C2

11:30 Victory v Lions C3

12:15 Spirit C2, Diamonds C3, Grizzlies C4

1:00 Knicks C2, Tigers C3, Power C4

1:45 Cougars C1, Thunder C3, Titans C3, Kings WP

3:15 Crocs C1

4:00 Storm C1

4:45 Magic C3

Byes Panthers

Newsletter - July

WELCOME to our July newsletter. 

It is another time of the year where we welcome new families to the club and our teams are exciting playing in the new season.  So read on and find out what makes Newlands the good club it is. My answer is its people.

SAFETY

The safety of our players comes first.  Recently and in the winter months there was and may be condensation from the roof on the courts in the early games.  This does not always happen but may happen as the cold weather sets in. We will not put our player’s safety at risk and will not play games if the courts are unsafe to do so.  This may inconvenient people but I would rather upset people than have a child injured.  This direction has been forwarded to all coaches. If games are called off under these circumstances for this please understand and support the reasoning behind our decision.

TEAMS

In the last newsletter I stated that we had good growth and had entered 19 junior teams and 2 adults’ teams for this season.  This has changed.  The latest update is 22 junior teams and 3 adult teams. I have attached a growth chart to show these results.  It is something to get excited about.

Our new teams are: Under 8 Leopards, Under 10 boys Colts, Under 12 girls Pandas are now 2 teams Wolves and Pumas, Under 16 girls Tigers, Under 16 boys Titans, Under 20 boys Crocs, Ladies adult Chicks. Men’s adult Blokes and All Stars. We also have new coaches and team manager and thank them for their willingness to help us provide opportunities for members of our community to enjoy basketball at our wonderful club.

NEW PLAYERS

We have positions available in most teams and are always looking to bring new players into our club.  The only teams that are full are our under 18 boys and adults teams. There are immediate positions available in all other age groups.

SAUSAGE SIZZLE

We conducted a sausage sizzle at Masters Hardware in Preston on the Saturday the 22nd of June.  Thank you to the following people who assisted as well as continuing their normal game day duties.  So it is a big thank you to organiser Liz Nichols and helpers Debbie White, Trish Mikhail, Lucia Tamis, Cathy Gatt, Di Christensen, Oscar Menuel, Pat Di Lizio, Julia Palantzis and Rebecca Nichols.  A further thank you to Pat for the donation of the sliced onions.  

We will be running more in the future and look forward to having more helpers available. The funds raised are much needed and assist with the running of our club.

NEWLANDS BLOG

Our club blog is now available on line @   http://newlandsbasketballclub.blogspot.com.au/.  Check it out it looks great.  You can still use the old web address too. A special thank you to Melinda for her hard work in developing and maintaining it.  She does a great job keeping it up to date with all our information. And there is a lot of information on it including my regular updates and game details.

You can subscribe to it and receive regular updates of information including match game details.  There is no cost to subscribe, membership is free.  Within the first 3 weeks we had over 1600 views.

SPORTING APPAREL

Newlands merchandise is available on sale.

Prices are: Drink Bottles $8, Sweat Towels $15, Pens $6, Sweat band set $20, Hoodies $40, Tee Shirts $30, Bags $40, Personalised Playing Singlets $40 (Reduced to $25 with trade in), Shorts $40 (Reduced to $28 with trade in).

                               

FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE

Fundraising is a highly important part of running our club.  We do rely on these funds greatly.  We are looking for volunteers to join our new to be formed fundraising committee. I have spoke with some people about this and the response was good.  We have a lot of talented people with some very good ideas. This is your opportunity to help this great club of ours.

A meeting is planned for 6 pm on the 22^nd of July at the Coburg Basketball Stadium office.  Hope to see you there.

FEES

Registration fees are due by Saturday 13th July 2013

Our new club fees are:

Joining cost:     $140.00 includes club season registration, full uniform including name on singlet & club shorts and training fees.  A loan uniform will be made available until your personalised one is available.

Registration:     (single game exiting player)       $80.00 per season

                        (dual game existing player)        $90.00 per season for 2 teams

                        (family)                                     $75.00 per player per season

Uniforms:          Playing top                               $40.00 each

                        Shorts                                      $40.00 each.

                                   

Game fees:       $5.00 per game (paid to Team Manager before game)                       

Door fees:        $2.00 per entry (paid to the Association on entry)

PLAYER ASSESSMENT PLANS

Coaches will be completing these on all players before round 6.  These plans will include player’s strengths, importunities for improvement and how the coach will be working with the player in these areas.  You will be encouraged to speak with the coach regarding your child’s progress. They will be available for all players.

BIRTHDAYS

Happy birthday to the following club members

July

2nd Xavier Covan	3rd   Harper Rodrigo
3rd Elisha Connor	10th Andrew Foti
12th Aidan Dawson	15th Sara Elso
16th Nathan Anthakis	18th Vito Carbone
19th Arel Rodrigo	21st Chriso Amanatidis
24th Jackson Shegog	27th Zak Nasba
28th Sean Peachmen Muzzolini	29th Jessica Hill
30th Dylan Potter

If I have missed anyone, please let me know and have a great birthday.

HAPPY BASKETBALLING

Wilton

Fundraising - we need your help!

Hi Team

 

We need your help. Fundraising is a key aspect of our club.  As we become bigger we need more funds and people to assist.  We cannot continue to rely on the same people all the time to do so much.

 

I am organising a fundraising committee and have planned a meeting on Monday 22/7/13 at the Coburg Basketball Stadium office @ 6 pm.

 

I would like to invite parents and friends of our club to come along.  I am certain that we have a lot of talented people with time to assist and some wonderful ideas waiting to be asked. These people may not be interested in team management but could help in this area.  It is ideal if Liz and I could also step back and assist rather than manage the committee.  Perhaps some of you might be able to do this or assist with ideas, help organise a fundraising activity

 

Remember this date and lets try and fill that that room!

Have a enjoyable weekend

 

Regards

Wilton

Team Update Lightning & Colts - plus a thanks to all helpers!

Hi Team

 

Firstly a big thank you to all who did a double shift at the basketball and the sausage sizzle.

Not sure who or how much but to each of you thank you.  Another exceptional effort by some exceptional people.

This, off course does not exclude those who were at the basketball helping due to the absence of the sausage sizzle volunteers and our regular hard working coaches and team managers.

I collected all the team sheets and will get a copy to you.

 

Please remember that any player who did not sign will need to complete the back of the scoresheet on the first game they play as a new player with full details.

 

Our under 10 boys have grown beyond one team and I have more boys thinking about joining.  I have needed to enter a second team 'Newlands Colts'.  I am hoping to arrange for their first game to be on returning from holidays. I am looking for a coach and team manager for this team.  If you know of possible coaches please see me. Training will be at 4pm on Mondays at the stadium.  The under 10 boys will stay as they are until the 13th of July.  That is no change until the 13th.

 

The 2 teams will be:

 

Lightning

Duncan

Aidan

Gabe

Harper

Rohan

Hamish

2 more players needed

 

Colts
Khalid

Sean

Nicholas

Xavier

Oscar

Available new players

 

With 6 and 5 in the 2 teams and heading into Winter we will need to get more players so please keep an eye out for more.

 

Regards

Wilton

Games Saturday 29th

830 Panthers C3, Lightning WP

9:15 Opals C4

10:00 Leopards C4, Pumas WP

11:30 Diamonds C3, Lions WP, Victory CSHS

12:15 Spirit C2, Kings WP,

1:00 Knicks v Tigers C3

1:45 Cougars C1, Titans C2, Grizzlies v Power C3

2:30 Thunder C2

3:15 Crocs C3

4:00 Magic C2, Storm C3

Byes Colts

Games Sat 22nd

830 Leopards C1
915 Lightning WP
1000 Pumas C2, opals C3, wolves WP, panthers c4
1045 victory c3, lions WP
1130 diamonds c3
1215 kings c3, spirit c4
100 Knicks c1, tigers c2
145 grizzlies c4
230 Thunder c3, power v titans c1, cougars c2
315 storm c2
400 magic c4
445 crocs c3

New Teams

Latest Newlands President update. here it comes.

We entered another 2 junior teams on Saturday. Our teams now are :

Panthers (8 girls),
Leopards (NEW 8 boys)
Lightning (10 boys)
Opals (10 girls)
Lions & Victory (12 boys)
Pandas & Wolves ((NEW) 12 girls)
Spirit & Kings (14 boys)
Diamonds (14 girls)
Grizzlies Cougars, Power, Thunder & Titans (16 boys)
Knicks & Tigers (16 girls)
Magic & Storm (18 boys) and
Crocs (20 boys).

That is a total of 21 teams. We have positions available in all age groups except 18 boys.

We need under 8 & 16 boys, under 14 &16 girls for this week. Put the word out and see what you can do to help.

Apart from our junior teams we also have 3 adult (2 men & 1 ladies) teams playing on Tuesday nights. Help us further grow by inviting your siblings, neighbours and friends to join us.

Games for 15th June

830         Panthers v SFBlue C1

915        Opals v SFWhite C3, Lightning v NRWhite WP

10:00     Pandas V NRRed C2,    Lions v StRaph2 WP,   Victory v SJNBLue CSHS

1130       Diamonds v StPauls C2,     Spirit v SJNBLue C3

1215       Kings v SJNYellow C3

1:00        Grizzlies v NRRed C1, Cougars v SU2 C4

145         Titans v FlamesR C3, Tigers v SJNJets C4

230         Power v StFWhite C1, Thunder v StFBlue C3

4:00        Magic v Storm C4

445         Crocs v StFWhite C2

Byes      Knicks

               

C1 to C4 are Courts 1 to 4 at the Stadium

CSHS = Coburg Senior High School

WP = West Preston

Game Venues - Team Sheets

Hi Everyone,

Please note the following:

1. Coburg Senior High (ALVA GVE ,Coburg) is now being used as a 6th court.  This has been used in the past and only new players will not be familiar with its location.  Please make sure to ask your team manager or coach if you don't know the way.  It will be used more as the competition continues to expand..

2. Team Managers: The team sheets must be in to me no later than next Monday.  We will be receiving a fine if there are not in on the following Saturday and I need to have them prior to make sure that are club records are also up to date.  This stops errors in the future with players ages, addresses and singlet numbers.

3. We need players for under 12 boys, under 14 girls and under 8s.  These teams are short of players although under 8s will have enough for this week, I'm looking at making another team.

If you need assistance with any of the above please contact me and I will do my best to assist.

Regards

Wilton 

Newsletter June 2013

Around Our Club 

WELCOME to our June newsletter.
A new season begins as we wave goodbye to the past season. The new season while being exciting will alsobe challenging but as always Newlands will rise to the challenge and once again make it a successful andrewarding time.
TEAMS
We will continue to grow in the number of teams we have this season. Our growth is enormous. We haveentered 19 teams (possibly 20) in the junior competition this season, last season we had 16. Our ladies andmen’s team start playing on Tuesday nights and another part of Newlands history is being created. I would liketo wish all our teams’ success and excitement for the new season.

FINALS
Congratulations to all teams.
Results were:
Panthers (under 8) – Finals participationLightning (under 10 boys) – Did not qualifyLions (under 10 boys) – Grand finalistOpals (under 10 girls) - Grand finalistVictory (under 12 boys) - Did not qualifyPandas (under 12 girls) - Did not qualifySpirit (Under 14 boys) - Grand finalistThunder (Under 14 boys) - Premiers
TROPHY PRESENTATION FUNCTION

Cougars (Under 14 boys) - PremiersKings (Under 14 boys) - Did not qualifyDiamonds (Under 14 girls) – Semi finalistsPower (Under 16 boys) - Premiers
Storm (under 16 boys) - PremiersGrizzlies (Under 16 boys) - PremiersRockets (Under 16 girls) - Semi finalistsMagic (under 18 boys) – Semi finalists

What a terrific time we had.
All players received their participation trophies. Referee trophies
award voted by the referees after each game. Votes were counted for the whole year. The committee havedecided that this award will stop for this year.
Winners were:
Panthers (under 8) – Rohan Dawson
Lightning (under 10 boys) – Gabe Menuel
Lions (under 10 boys) – Bilal El-Haouli
Opals (under 10 girls) - Sophie Palantzis
Victory (under 12 boys) - Joseph Habchi & Taylan Izlemak
Pandas (under 12 girls) - Emily Lane
Spirit (Under 14 boys) - Stefan Vlahopoulos & Zakaria Nasba
Thunder (Under 14 boys) - Rohan Murfitt

were also awarded as a special achievement

Cougars (Under 14 boys) - Donovan StewartKings (Under 14 boys) - Michael BerdakenDiamonds (Under 14 girls) – Bridget GattPower (Under 16 boys) - Habib HabchiStorm (under 16 boys) - Kyle ThomasGrizzlies (Under 16 boys) - Adam MarracheRockets (Under 16 girls) - Bridget GattMagic (under 18 boys) – Vito Carbone

NEW PLAYERS

We have positions available in most teams and are always looking to bring new players into our club. Teamsthat require immediate players are under 8, under 14 and 16 girls. Under 8s currently have 12 players but weare hoping few some more so we can have 2 teams. Invite your friends along to training. Let’s continue to sharethe excitement, our game and club with others. We are also looking for recruiting ideas.
TEAM OFFICIALS
Our coaching staff except is nearly settled. Under 16 boys Titans still require a coach. If you know of someoneprepared to volunteer to help please see me. Greg (Grizzlies assistant coach) and myself are currently sharingthe position while looking for a coach who can fully commit to the team.
We are looking for a Group Co-ordinator for our young teams and some Team Managers are also still required;see Liz or myself if you can assist. We are also looking for scorers and committee persons.
SAUSAGE SIZZLE
All the wonderful things that happen around our club would not be possible withoutfundraising. We are looking for someone to co-ordinate our fundraising activities. Ifyou can assist in this area please see Liz or myself.
Our next fundraising activity is a sausage sizzle at Masters Hardware in Preston onthe Saturday the 22nd of June. We will require you to assist as it is on a Saturdayand most of our normal volunteer workers will be required to coach or teammanage on the day. Don’t wait to be asked see Liz or me early; I am sure that
over the last few months you have seen the benefits of these activities. It is all for our children that we continueto work hard. Your assistance would be appreciated.
GRANT
We recently applied for a community grant with the Satterley Property Management who are the new CoburgHill Estate developers on the old Kodak site in Elizabeth St. We asked for and received money to purchasesome more white alternative tops. Please join me in thanking them for their generous gift. I know that you willall see the benefits of the tops.

BIRTHDAYS
Happy birthday to the following club members
June. 9th Tilly Meneul
18th Duncan Cameron18th Julia Pavlovski20th Rhys Richards22nd Eva Bazzanella

23rd Emily Lane24th Kyle Thomas26th Taylan Izlemak15th Olivia Pascuzzi

If I have missed anyone, please let me know and have a great birthday.
HAPPY BASKETBALLINGWilton 

Newsletter May 2013

Around Our Club
WELCOME to our May newsletter.
What an exciting time of the year. Finals are here and we can also look forward to our presentation on May 25th.
I am continually amazed at the achievement of our club so read on and find out what makes Newlands so special.
If you can, come along and support our many teams in the finals. The support we have given our teams in the past hasbeen exceptional, don’t disappoint all our teams this year. Come along and cheer.
I have also attached on page 3 a poster. Please circulate this in your local community.
CHOCOLATE DRIVE
Our chocolate drive is has completed. Thank you to all that rolled up theirsleeves and helped. Our contest was won by Chris Pavlovski and asecond prize was awarded to Liz Nichols. The money we raised will helpour presentation while it also gave players an opportunity to get a club drinkbottle for selling a box. If you have not returned your money please do so.
LADIES BASKETBALL
We will be entering a ladies basketball in the senior completion on Tuesday nights starting 4/6/13. The team isnow near full. The following season we will be entering a mixed and men’s team. Our goal is to continue togrow our number of adult teams and therefore providing opportunities for all the community to become involved.Our players are now getting older and within a few years will be able to continue with our club as young adults.
COACHES/TEAM MANAGERS
We are looking for new junior coaches and Team managers. Our growth is enormous. Next season we willenter at least 18 teams. At this time last year we had 11 teams playing. Just for a moment stop and reflectwhat that means. Our number of players has nearly doubled during this time. That is absolutely amazing. Offcourse we do have growing pains/concerns along the way but we are doing our best to sort them out as we go.We always need help within our club and currently need some team officials that is coaches, team managers,scorers and committee people. All team officials require ‘working with children’ cards and the club can assistyou in this process.
TROPHY PRESENTATION
You are invited to our annual trophy presentation on Saturday the 25th of May. It will start at 5.30 pm at the DonBosco Youth Centre in Sydney Road Brunswick. There will be no basketball games that weekend. There willbe no fee charged as entry is free.
All current players will receive a participation trophy. A referee award trophy is also presented to a player ineach team. This player is selected over the year by the referees providing votes after our games. It is not forthe best player but the best achiever as voted by the match day referees on a 3/2/1 basic. They are tallied forthe complete year to calculate the winner.
Come along and join us and invite your friends.
Parents are asked to bring a desert plate. The club will be providing pizzas, drinks and entertainment.
MERCHANISE STAND
Newlands merchandise is still on sale during training in the foyer on Mondays. Club merchandise include pens,drink bottles, sweat towels, sweat band sets, hoodies and T shirts. Orders for new uniforms can be placed andmembership paid.

 

BIRTHDAYS
Happy birthday to the following club members
April
5th Dylan Ashmore8th Nathan Zanin
9th Michael Cikes
9th Sophie Palantzis10th Madeline Nichols10th Rebecca Nichols

11th Rohan Murfitt
13th Habib Habchi
13th Jayden Clemmets15th Jessica Connor
15th Mathieson Zuccato19th Donovan Stewart
21st Espoir Ndimugwadndi

If I have missed anyone, please let me know and have a great birthday.

Wilton

Newsletter April 2013

Around Our Club 

WELCOME to our April newsletter.

Hope you all enjoyed the Easter and school holidays. The season is winding up and all our teams are now preparing for the coming finals. Recently I was reminded about the growth in our club and the amount of people at training. I took time to reflect this as I have been making enquiries about hiring another venue for training as we have out grown the number of courts available at the stadium on Mondays. Next season we plan on entering 17 teams and must be able to provide training facilities for them. On reflecting I remembered when we first started training, it was with 3 players on half of court 4 on a Tuesday afternoon. So we have gone from 3 players at training to what we have now. Wow, what a reflection. Have a look around you next time you are at training and appreciate the hard work of every member of our club, you all should be proud of our achievements. Please remember that our success is not measured by the number of premiership but the number of players who turn up each week.
Good luck to all our teams for the upcoming finals. Go Newlands, we are all proud of each and every person associated with our wonderful club.
CHOCOLATE DRIVE
Our chocolate drive has been a success although we have some boxes remaining and some people still to return their money. Please see Vivian at training if you wish to return chocolate money or take another box. The winner of the competition will be announced when all boxes are sold.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Positions are still available on both the Junior and Senior committees. Meetings are conducted monthly on Monday after training. Come along and learn more about our club please remember that it is your club as well. Come along and help direct this great club because it belongs to all of us including you. You are challenged with the responsibility of ensuring our club remains the best. Please see myself or Liz for further details about these
positions.
MERCHANISE STAND
Newlands merchandise is still on sale during training in the foyer on Mondays. Club merchandise include pens, drink bottles, sweat towels, sweat band sets, hoodies and T shirts. Orders for new uniforms can be placed and membership paid.
COACHES
We are looking for new junior coaches. I have commenced planning for next season so if there is anything you would like me to know please contact me.
TROPHY PRESENTATION
You are invited to our annual trophy presentation on Saturday the 25th of May. It will start at 5pm at the Don Bosco Youth Centre in Sydney Road Brunswick. There will be no basketball games that weekend. There will be no fee charged as entry is free. We will be conducting a raffle to assist with fundraising.
All current players will receive a participation trophy. A referee award trophy is also presented to a player in each team. This player is selected over the year by the referees providing votes after our games. It is not for the best player but the best sportsperson.
LADIES BASKETBALL
We will be entering a ladies basketball in the senior completion on Tuesday nights. Game time will be between 6.30 and 10 pm. If you are interested in playing see Daphne (under 16 Grizzlies coach) for further details.
BIRTHDAYS
Happy birthday to the following club members
April
14th Tony Talk 29th Sunday Murphy
If I have missed anyone, please let me know and have a great birthday.

HAPPY BASKETBALLING Wilton 

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