March 12, 2010 in Other
You are invited to participate in our annual 4 days basketball tournament that is hosted by Charioters basketball club in Mamelodi (Pretoria) during Easter weekend.
Date: 02nd to 05th April 2010
Venue: Mamelodi Beer Hall (Pretoria)
Time: 10h00 Read the rest of this entry →
October 11, 2009 in Gauteng
With the U18 IPTs around the corner (from the 30th November – 4th December 2009), Gauteng will be holding trials to select the team that will represent the province. Please approach your coaches, parents and friends and make sure that they attend if they want to be selected.
CHANGES:
Neo won’t be available and all changes are highlighted. Also, it is very important that only district teams will be considered. Contact people are as follows:
TSHWANE – NEO 0826310063
EKURHULENI – SAMA 0832599009 / NHLANHLA
SEDIBENG – RITA 0711999335
MOGALE – CHARLOTTE 0836921269
JOBURG – DANMORE 0827685638
Please take note of the FINAL 18/U trials to be held as follows:
Date: 17 Oct 2009
Venue: Pretoria Boys High School (Tshwane)
Time: 09H00
Boys’ convener: Neo Mothiba
Girls’ convener: Asnath Maureen. Read the rest of this entry →
March 15, 2009 in USSA
The University of Pretoria hosted the final part of the qualifiers, with the ladies teams finalizing their preparations for this year’s tournament. The USSA tournament will be on week of the 05 – 10 April 2009 and the Venue for the National Tournament is in Tshwane, at the University of Pretoria, Gauteng. The tournament is in April due to the World Student Games taking place in July 2009. This year ONLY the boys will be participating in the tournament in Belgrade Serbia, with the ladies apparently not considered a priority by the powers at USSA or SASCOC. With Vaal Univesity of Technology (VUT) and University of Johannesburg (UJ) already qualified, it was down to Wits to confirm their place in the tournament with 2 crucial games back to back on the day.
With teams pitching early for the games starting at 09h00, the game between UJ ladies and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) didn’t take place because the latter didn’t turn up, maybe they knew that they were in for a tough match against last year’s runners up. The game between Wits ladies and VUT was a contest between 2 teams going through the motion, with Wits keeping an eye on their next game against Medunsa which was more important. VUT just had too much ammunition for Wits to handle, despite playing like a disjointed unit.
March 4, 2009 in News
Once again the powers that be are not sharing with the basketball community. The ladies camp was scheduled to take place in Potchefstroom but at the very last minute the ladies found themselves at Mandeville for their 2nd and last camp before they head to Zimbabwe for their qualifiers. Most of the players were still under the impression that the camp would be held in Potchefstroom until they were contacted a day or even on the day they were scheduled to meet. The ladies camp is progressing smoothly and the ladies are working hard to make sure that they qualify for the main event in Lybia.
As far as the men’s 2nd camp goes, it was supposed to start today Wednesday 4 March 2009, but the correspondence the players and coaches got was that it was cancelled indefinitely. What does that mean? It makes me wonder, does it mean that all the good work of the 1st camp will go to waste and the team will head into the qualifiers in Mozambique with only one camp behind them? I know for sure that other African teams are busy preparing hard for these particular qualifiers. I have also heard that some of the players from the 1st camp are pulling out due to work commitment and I won’t be surprised if there are more withdrawals after this late cancellation of the camp by BSA. Let’s hope that this setback doesn’t demoralize the players and coaching staff and that BSA gives us a relevant explanation in due time.
Mybasketball was informed in due time regarding the 1st camp held at the High Performance Center (HPC) in Pretoria in February but there was no media advisory sent out for the 2nd ladies camp that is currently taking place at Mandeville or about the cancellation of the men’s camp. BSA have blundered by not giving anyone a valid reason for the cancellation of the men’s camp and by not informing the players, coaches and other interested parties in due time.
