07 April 2008

WOMENS FIJI TOUR 2008 - DAY 1


Wellington Women's Fiji Tour departed 06 April 2008 to Suva, Fiji to play three warm up "tests" against the Fijian National Women's team.


Wellington Womens Invitational team to tour Fiji posing at a Press Conference for Fiji Television

First full days report for Day 1 can be downloaded here. Keep an eye out for Day 2's report when Wellington play their first game tonight at Tattersalls Leisure Centre at
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7 April 2008

WEEK 11 – PLAYOFFS CONTINUE


Wellington U17 Celtics playing Thorndon Walks

Last week the Men C Grade also played their semi-finals in which the clash of our top Men C Grade teams fought for the right of who would be the top social teams in the Mid-Week League. In comparison the Men A & B Grade semi were played last night and ohhhhh what a night…..This week we will be seeing the finals for Mens C & D
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04 April 2008

WELLINGTON CBL MEN'S TRIALS & TRAINING


Wellington Basketball will be selecting representative players for WBA Wellington Men's CBL team for 2008.

Open trials will be held every Sunday morning, starting this Sunday, 06 April 2007 from 11am - 01pm at WBA, South West Stadium, 11 Hutchison Road, Mt Cook, Wellington. Check out the Caelndar on the website for further trainings.

The WBA Wellington CBL team will play in the Basketball New Zealand (BBNZ) CBL League which is
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2 April 2008

WEEK 9/10 – PLAYOFFS HAVE ARRIVED


I got so excited about this week I decided to hold off on last week writeup I wanted to include some of the action that happen this week. Yep Men D Grade have had their semi’s and I’ve included a report on the semi’s. Actually some of the games on Monday need a mention as there was some top games and last week I know heaps of teams were trying to secure
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28 March 2008

SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME


Kenny McFadden – Mr Basketball himself and his team of basketball stars and coaches will be teaching and entertaining your children in the game of basketball

Monday to Friday
- 21-25 April 2008;
- 28 April - 02 May 2008

From 10:00am to 3:00pm
Ages open from 7 to 12 year olds


Where:

South West Stadium (next to NZ Dance & Drama School), 11 Hutchison St, Newtown, WELLINGTON – phone (04) 389-8004

Cost:

- $15.00
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26 March 2008

WEEK 9 –PLAYOFFS UP FOR SOME


Easter Weekend signals a good break for many of us and a chance to celebrate so many things and it also signals to those teams who will be playing in the playoffs and those who may have missed out. Regardless of where each team may have ended up after the round-robin you will either be playing in a semi-final or a make-up game to determine your final seeding for the season.

In
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17 March 2008

WEEK 8 – ATTITUDES & FAIRPLAY


It’s been a fantastic week with hard ball still being played from Monday through to Friday evening. Every evening of the week is now being utilized with Mens A/B grade on Monday nights, Tuesday nights Mens D & Mixed Grades, Wednesday night Mens C Grade, Thursday night Womens Grade and Friday night College basketball.

Wellington basketball continues to grow, with Mid-Week basketball almost all year round sport and with Winter Season coming
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3 March 2008

WEEK 7 – U21 INTERRUPTS PLAY


Wellington U21 Women Team

The Women Grades put on hold last week as the “U21 teams from around NZ” gather at the SouthWest Stadium for the 2008 National Championships. Some of our youngest and brightest from Mid-Week teams were represented at the Nationals including the Wellington U21 Women team, Hoop Club Boys (Wellington U21 Men team) and for the Porirua U21 team - included Brooke Ruscoe, Joe Maiava, Hayden Whelan, Tipene
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21 January 2008

WBA UNDER 17 WOMENS REP PROGRAMME


TRIALS

Tuesday 11 March 2008 6.00pm to 8.00pm Chinese Stadium, and

Saturday 15 March 2008 6.00pm to 8.00pm SouthWest Stadium, and

Wellington Basketball will be selecting representative players for WBA Under 17 Women's team for 2008.

The WBA Women's U17 teams will play in the Basketball New Zealand (BBNZ) Tournament to be held:
U17 Regionals (Hutt Valley) Saturday 19 April to Monday 21 April 2008
U17 Nationals (Dunedin) Saturday 30 May to
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3 March 2008

WEEK 6 – BRING ON 2010


…why you should ask…with the prospect of getting our own stadium worthy of holding national & international games, WBA could be moving to the new proposed stadium in Kilbirnie 2010. It’s an exciting opportunity for WBA to have a stadium that is worthy of the teams and players that are playing in our leagues given the tremendous growth and interests in basketball in this area.

I’ve heard that our leagues are
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26 February 2008

WEEK 5 – SOUTHWEST GETTING HOTTER


Raise the roller doors and pull open those fire exit doors as Mid-Week continues to produce fast and pulsating action down at SouthWest Stadium. There is no doubt in my mind that the bar has been raised in terms of ball being played across the grades and the desire to win is stronger.

There was no less then 10 games during this week where the scores were less then 5 points
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18 February 2008

WEEK 4 – TOO MUCH – TOO INTENSE


I have had so many people commenting to me this week that Mid-Week has been so intense, the energy levels on the courts have been huge and the games throughout the week have been so close that it been a pleasure to be courtside with you all.

Tuesday evening we had 5 of the 6 games that went to the wire and either team could have won their games. Wednesday
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11 February 2008

WEEK 3 - MIDWEEK KEEPS ROLLING ON


Yep…teams have settled in and everyone has had a few games under their belt, fitness levels up, ball feels good and its just so great to be playing at the SouthWest stadium again. The level of basketball continues to grow around Wellington as teams get better, players wanting to win and the supporters love watching exciting fast paced action every night...its a joy and pleasure to be amongst it all.

This
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5 February 2008

WEEK 2 - MIDWEEK WEATHERS THE HEATWAVE


Some serious questions were asked last week of our teams, as Wellington poured on some of the best weather I’ve seen for many years. At the SouthWest Stadium teams settled down to the business of balling, as the weather encouraged some great basketball, good sweat out and some interesting results across the grades. Seeding games continue throughout the grades and the teams have been finalized in each grade so within the
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06 February 2008

WBA UNDER 19 BOYS SQUAD TRIALS-TRAINING - UPDATE


Wellington Basketball will be selecting representative players for WBA Under 19 boy's team for 2008.

The WBA Boys U19 teams will play in the Basketball New Zealand (BBNZ) Tournament to be held:

U19 Regionals (Hawera) Saturday 19 April to Monday 21 April 2008

U19 Nationals (Tauranga) Saturday 30 May to Monday 2 June 2008

Pre-Season trials/trainings have been scheduled over the coming weeks:

- Sat, 09 Feb '08, 02:30pm to
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30 January 2008

MIXED SUMMER LEAGUE 2008


- Starts week beginning 18 February 208 through to week beginning 21 April 2008.
- Tuesday nights @ South West Stadium or Chinese Stadium (depending on team entries)
- $560.00 (inclsuive of GST) per team entry
- 16-point player maximum
- 3 men/2 women or 2 men/3 women
- Women only allowed in keyhole areas
- 2 referees and 2 scorebench provided per game per court (no team duties)

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28 January 2008

2008 REGIONAL BASKETBALL COACHES ORIENTATION


Interested in coaching basketball?

Want to find a team to coach?

Want to learn to coach?

Want to improve your coaching?

Then come along to a 1-hour meeting on Saturday 16 February 2008 at 10:00am, Wellington Basketball Association South West Stadium, 11 Hutchison Road, Mt Cook, Wellington.

Speakers:

Kenny McFadden - Wellington Basketball Assn Director of Development
Ollie Dudfield - Basketball NZ Development Manager
Doug Marty - Wellington Saints new Head Coach<
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28 January 2008

MIDWEEK SUMMER LEAGUE 2008 COMES EARLY


Dust off the cobwebs …grab the AND1 shoes and run down to the SouthWest building. Bring on the warm summer days as MidWeek bball rocks on…and creates its own form of heatwave ... I’m not kidding when you're running around inside the stadium in 20 degrees and above…its soaking sweat material and talk about being tired afterwards. But I can always say a few cool drinks after the game with the team
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21 January 2008:


Hutchinson Community College sophomore Fairen Lepaio

LEPAIO TURNS INTO A SCORING THREAT


From Wellington, All Stars Basketball Club & The Blue Dragon's (Kansas, USA) sophomore Fairen Lepaio. Check out the write up about her on Hutchnews.com.

By Brad Hallier - The Hutchinson News -
bhallier@hutchnews.com

For most of the season, the Hutchinson Community College women's players and coaches have tried to convince sophomore Fairen Lepaio to shoot more.

Lepaio shot just seven times Wednesday at the
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21 January 2008

MID-WEEK SUMMER LEAGUE 2008


WBA's Summer League 2008 starts tomorrow night with draw for the first week now up on site. Click here for Week 1.

1. This season we are fortunate that Monday nights will now become available for our Mid-Week league from Week 5 (18 February 2008) and this will now become the regular night for Mens A/B Grade – in the interim period Mens A/B Grade will be played on Friday evenings (first 4
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