GreaterSport and England Basketball are working hard to increase the availability and enhance the quality of basketball competition in Greater Manchester.
Greater Manchester County Finals
This Competition is being run through the Competition Managers and is aimed at U14 and U16 boys. Schools will compete within their School Sports Partnership, this will elad to an SSP final within each borough which will produce a borough winner. The school borough champions will then compete in a County Final in a bid to become County Champion. The county Final will be held Week Commencing 30th March at the Amaechi Centre (Whalley Range, Manchester) Details will be confirmed soon.
Girls Basketball Project
To celebrate the FIBA Europes Year of Womans Basketball the Greater Manchester Development Group has established a project to introduce up to 1000 girls to basketball throughout the county. It began with an Apprentice Coach and Referees course for under 17 girls. The next stage was focusing on primary schools year 5 and 6, who will be invited to attend a number of free sessions at the local secondary school ran by a qualified coach assisted by the newly qualified coaches and officials. These girls then competed in a borough tournament representing their school. Each boroughs winning school got invited to the Amaechi Centre to play against other boroughs schools in the areas best facility. This project has the full backing of England Basketball who have contributed financially to the running of the programme.
Although the initial time scale for the programme is now completed, due to its success we are looking to continue this through the 08/09 season.
School Accreditation
‘BasketballMark’ is the England Basketball quality accreditation scheme for primary and secondary schools. It is a developmental and auditing tool that rewards and recognises a school for it’s provision of basketball to it’s students both within the curriculum and in the extra-curricular opportunities it offers.
There are four levels of award:
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BasketballMark Primary
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BasketballMark 1 Star
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BasketballMark 2 Star
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BasketballMark 3 Star
Interested in accreditation? Click here.
School Affiliation
Quite simply it’s a simple way of formalizing all the basketball that takes place within your school, ensuring that your hard work is recognised and rewarded by England Basketball.
England Basketball provide a number of benefits for its affiliated schools, working in
partnership with England Basketball, GreaterSport can further increase these benefits making affiliation worthwhile for all.
Affiliation Forms can be acessed in the links below:
For more information on all of the above please contact Lydia Smith at GreaterSport on 0161 223 1002/07793441300 or email lydias@greatersport.co.uk
