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.