Welcome to the official home of youth basketball in the South West region. This is the one website recognised by the Regional Management Committee and the Talent Manager for the region, appointed by Basketball England.
NEW JOB ROLE – Aspire Programme Assistant Coach.
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If you are a player keen to develop your game at the highest possible level, you will find the information and contacts here, along with the encouragement and motivation to be the best that you can be.
If you are a parent or other supporter, you will find results, records and other details which will help you support your child or South West basketball in general.
We have very high ambitions for the sport and its enthusiasts in the region. We hope you share those aims and look forward to working alongside you to achieve the best possible individual and team standards.
Our region has the largest geographical area of any of the ten Sport England regions. We cover an enormous area, well over 200 miles between its furthest boundaries, from Bournemouth to Lands End to Gloucester. Our web presence is just one way in which we aim to bring these distant centres of basketball closer together and to support everyone in working together to achieve the best.
We are urgently seeking players with talent and potential, born in the calendar years 2005 and 2006. Of course, boys and girls with good playing skills and experience are needed, but also those new to the game but with height, size, outstanding athletic ability, potential leadership qualities etc. If you know of a suitable candidate,…
Molly James and Matthew Marsh have cleared the first hurdle as they work towards their target of selection for Great Britain in this summer’s Under 16 European Championship. Both players made the cut after the England team camps over the holiday period. Matthew learned his basketball at Penryn Saracens and is now with Reading Rockets. …
We are delighted that Coach Chris Bourne has been appointed to join the coaching staff for the England Men’s team who will travel to the Gold Coast, Australia for the Games in the Spring. He has already been working with the squad at their first training camp, under Head Coach Andreas Kapoulas, who is another…
Read more Coach Bourne joins Team England Commonwealth Games staff
Teams of boys and girls from South West (Under14, 2004-born) will be on the plane to the Prague again next March, our 17th visit to the Czech Republic. The teams will train for 3 days and play test games against local clubs at our base in Brandys nad Labem, before taking part in the…