BMBA School Newsletter
Issue Number 3
Tuesday, 29th March, 2022
Recent News
Malvern Central Primary School, clinics a great success.
We conducted our first day of clinics at Malvern Central Primary School this week when we visited the school to conduct clinics for grades 3, 4 and 6 students. This was only our first day and we have two more days to go at this two campus Primary School.
The kids and our coaches had a great time as they enjoyed getting back into some sport after two years of covid-19 restrictions.
Without a doubt, the kid’s favourite moment was having our Canadian All-Star import, Joe Davis, dunking the ball, followed by Joe joining them for some scrimmage games at the end of the clinic.
The kids were given flyers for the keener students to follow up with some holiday camp skills and fun. They also have after school training opportunities in term two and beyond.
We will be visiting Malvern Central and St Joseph’s Primary school next week for some more clinics and some more skills and fun.
For your students to have some similar fun while being introduced to the skills of the game, make sure you book the BMBA in for a clinic with your School.
BMBA U16 Warriors looking for boys for their A grade team.
The BMBA Warriors are looking for boys born in either 2007 or 2008 that would be interested in playing in A grade domestic competition while receiving excellent, knowledge and experienced coaching.
Our U16 Boys teams have done an outstanding job to make the A grade competition at the Sandringham Basketball Association, but are restricted due to only having 6 players. We are currently looking for at least two more players.
So if you know of boys born in either 2007 or 2008 that are motivated and looking for an opportunity to play a high level while receiving some excellent coaching, get them in contact with our head coach Bob Mann via his mobile 0490 823 400 or his email bob_mann@bmba.net.au
Our Coaches, what they are up to.
Our two main coaches are about to embark on their season proper. Bob Mann coaching with his U18 Hawthorn Magic representative team and Joe Davis with his Pakenham BIG V Men’s team. With each newsletter we will keep you up with their progress, so that you know what you will be getting when they visit your school and provide services to your students.
Joe drops thirty in BIG V debut.
Our All-Star Canadian import, Joe Davis, made his BIG V basketball debut when his Pakenham Warriors team travelled out to Craigieburn to take on the Craigieburn Eagles in their BIG V season’s opening fixture.
Pakenham struggled early in this game with Craigieburn getting the early jump on the Warriors, but our boy Joe was having none of that, dragging his Pakenham team not only back into the game but into an important opening win for the season.
Joe had 30 points as he made 13 Field Goal attempts at a rate of 56.2%. Add that to his 6 rebounds and one assist and Joe has had a great debut game with more to come as he settles down into Australian basketball. It is no understatement to say Pakenham may have struggled to notch their opening win of the season without Joe and his efforts.
Joe is confident that his best is yet to come. We can’t wait to see it.
In his second game of the season Joe perfromed strongly despite a devastatingly close overtime loss to ladder leaders Altona.
Coach Mann laid low with covid-19.
At the other end of the scale, BMBA head coach and founder had to go into isolation with covid-19 this past week.
So sadly his team’s game was postponed as he isolated. We are pleased to say he has now come out of isolation, is fully recovered and is ready to get into his BMBA and Hawthorn Magic activities from this weekend.
After a successful tournament weekend just a week ago, Bob is keen to get his team’s season proper started this weekend.
Recent Updates and News
St Michael's Grammar to host our first Holiday Camp in April.
We are pleased to announce that St Michael’s Grammar will be the venue for our first school holiday for the upcoming April Holidays.
St Michael’s has outstanding facilities and the court we will be using at the school will be perfect for our first camp. We are very excited by this acquisition for the BMBA program and hope this is the beginning of many great relationships with a host of schools for the BMBA basketball program.
For full details on our camp CLICK HERE.
McKinnon Primary School Book us in for June.
McKinnon Primary School have been the first school to book us in for a FREE CLINIC for their school and students. Joe Davis, our Canadian import will be visiting McKinnon Primary School in early June for a week, conducting coaching clinics for each year level.
While there, Joe will also be educating kids about the BMBA program and what we have to offer them if they share our passion for the sport of basketball. Joe will give the McKinnon Primary School students some drills, show them some skills and provide plenty of entertainment and fun.
Last week we paid Dylan Hislop a visit. Dylan arranged the clinic for us in June at the school and we wanted to introduce him to Joe and to say thank you for his efforts. We are looking forward to these clinics at McKinnon Primary School with some excitement and anticipation as we begin our Schools Program journey.
If you would like Joe to visit your school contact him via his email development@bmba.net.au or contact him via his mobile 0480 305 761.
Alternatively. you can contact Bob Mann via his email bob_mann@bmba.net.au or through his mobile 0490 823 400.
St Joseph's Elsternwick locks in BMBA for clinics
St Joseph’s Primary School in Elsternwick have also locked us in for a Clinic on March 16th. The fortunate students at St Joseph’s will enjoy access to Joe for some drills, skills and fun thanks to sports Teacher Louise Howell.
St Joseph’s is located ideally close to St Michael’s Grammar so St Joseph’s students have an opportunity to have a taste of Joe’s talents via this clinic and then through our holiday camp at St Michael’s Grammar.
St Joseph’s actually has basketball-crazy kids formed into teams that are playing in after schools competitions. So they will really enjoy the opportunity of a FREE clinic at their school through the BMBA schools program.
We have more schools that have indicated an interest in locking in some clinics, so make sure your school doesn’t miss out and BOOK US IN TODAY!
Check out our Camp Promo Video
After School Training. Is your school interested?
Interested in securing after school training at your school for your students where they will receive high-quality coaching. Interested in having teams formed for your students though that training to be entered into competitions to represent your school?
At BMBA we are extremely interested in securing agreements with both primary and secondary schools to establish training on-site, after school at your school FOR YOUR STUDENTS.
The intention would be to form teams to enter into competitions to represent both your school and our BMBA program. This training and these teams can then complement school teams in representative competitions that your school may engage in.
Why not contact us today to discuss this opportunity further.
Can you help promote our camp?
The only way we can provide our services for FREE to schools during school terms is to conduct successful holiday camps. If you can assist in this effort then we can come out to your school to conduct FREE clinics during future school terms.
If you could help us out by placing a camp poster on notice boards at your school or via your school website or newsletter, it would be greatly appreciated. We have a jpeg file you could include on a website or in an email newsletter. Simply right-click on the image and then click on “save image as” to download this jpeg file.
Alternatively, you can CLICK HERE to download a PDF version of the flyer for notice boards etc!
If you need anything else, such as a smaller sized image or a different type of flyer, simply contact us o let us know and we will arrange it. Anything you can do to assist will be greatly appreciated and help us get to your school to run a FREE clinic for your students.
Community/Christinaity Through Hoops Program.
At BMBA basketball we are not just about building better players, we also want to mentor better people.
We will be implementing this through our “Communities through Hoops program” for State schools and our “Christianity through Hoops” for Catholic/Christian Schools.
The purpose of both programs is the same and is covered in our program’s emblem explained below. The way we implement and conduct our programs wants to reflect age-old values that we believe are just as important in these modern times and moving into the future. Through our love of sport and in a subtle way we want to embed within our players a sense of honesty, respect, honour and dignity in the way they conduct themselves. We believe sport is an ideal vehicle for this.
Why the Templars?
We chose the Templars as we believe some values are eternal.
We don’t just want our symbol/mascot to project strength and tenacity, we want it to be something that defines our culture and the values we want to embed amongst our participants and players.
While the Templar Knights were fierce Medieval Warriors, they also lived by a code of honour, respect, courage and they dedicated their lives to self-sacrifice in the pursuit of servitude towards others.
We believe that this represents the culture we want to build within our program perfectly.
Younger Kids
We do our best to group participants to match their ages and abilities as much as possible. This ensures the kids obtain as much enjoyment as possible from their time with us. Generally, for younger kids, the emphasis is as much on having some fun while being taught some new skills to use in their domestic games or programs.
In teaching these skills we do so as much as possible through drill formats with the kids in teams and engaging in competitive drills with plenty of encouragement and with more emphasis on attempting to use their newly taught skills as on winning.
Older Kids
For our older groups, we teach them more through simulated match situations and scrimmage games. Drills are still used but with the mindset of using these drills to develop skills for games situations and then putting them into those game situations.
While still focusing on enjoyment and fun, older participants are normally looking for more challenging training and coaching with a greater emphasis on competition and challenges with the skills being taught.
Girls
Our training is designed for both boys and girls. Where numbers permit we organise girls into “girl only” groups which make things more enjoyable for the girls. We also design different skills challenges for the girl’s groups.
In the unusual event (especially in the older groups) that a girl or girls would prefer to join in with the boys, we would look at that situation where capabilities permit it.
Boys
Of course, our training is open for boys as well. As with the girls, we look to form them into boys-only groups. This again is dependent on the number of enrolments we have.
These groups are sorted along both age and capability lines as well as keeping kids in their friendship groups where possible. Most importantly, as best as possible we place participants in groups where they are comfortable with their current skill level and where they can obtain the most enjoyment from their participation in the BMBA program.
For the more motivated
We also have groups for those players who are more motivated and wish to obtain more serious training to improve their game. We can either form them into a separate group or embed them in a group and simply provide them with more challenging drills and skills for them to use and learn from.
They will receive condensed high-level coaching and drills that will challenge them and help them improve their current skills considerably or learn new ones for future games and opportunities.
Our Coaches
Our Coaches are predominately players Bob has brought through with him via his caching career. They all have predominately graduated through Bob’s representative basketball programs. We also recruit coaches from Universities and schools who have either played or coached at a high level. All our coaches are trained in the drills and basketball programs that we implement and are supervised through all our sessions. Naturally, all of them will have to obtain and provide Working with Children Checks to be able to work with us, where they are old enough to have one.
Our Venues
At the moment we operate from outdoor school courts due to Covid-19, but we are now working to secure an indoor court now that schools have reopened from lockdowns.
We are looking for a venue in the South East Suburbs of Melbourne, preferably within the boundaries of the cities of Glen Eira, Bayside or Kingston.
If your school fits that bill and wants to help us have kids in our community become involved in a positive recreation and program while making some revenue for your school, then contact us to discuss the possibilities.
Book a clinic today!
We are now ready and willing to go. So book us in to visit your school to promote our sport, our program and the possibilities we can present for many of your students.
CLICK HERE to contact us today to book us into a visit to your school.
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