A vacancy has arisen for a full-time Regional Basketball Development Coordinator (East & Central), earning between £17,000 and £20,000 per year. 

This is your opportunity to join the basketballscotland team and make a real difference to the growth of basketball in Scotland. 

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basketballscotland are seeking a dynamic and hard working professional to champion the development of basketball across the East & Central regions.

The key functions of this position are to develop a sustainable basketball infrastructure by establishing local school and club competition, coordinating coaching and officiating education programmes and supporting club development.

The role will also provide a link between regional competitions and the Twilight Basketball initiatives taking place throughout the region.

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

-  A knowledge of sport development principles

-  Exceptional planning, organisational, administration and communication skills

-  The ability to engage, motivate and enthuse volunteers and fellow professionals

-  A focus on delivering against identified outcomes

-  High levels of self-motivation

-  The ability to effectively transport themselves throughout their region

This position provides an exciting opportunity for an individual with enthusiasm, commitment and the required skills to make a significant contribution to basketball in Scotland.

For further details and to apply for this post, please download the Job Description and Application Form below:

Job Description

Application Form

The closing date for applications is 12pm on Monday 13^th September

If you require any additional information on the post, please contact Andy McSweeney on operations@basketball-scotland.com

basketballscotland will endeavour through our policies, procedures, actions and decision-making to ensure that no employee, volunteer or member receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of race, gender, disability, sexual orientation, religious or political belief, age or social background.  All members of society are actively encouraged to apply.

Scots Marie Buchan (formerly Falkirk Fury) and Becca Allison (formerly Edinburgh Kool Kats), who are also teammates at Old Dominion University in Virginia, played a huge part in the Euro B title triumph of Welsh coach Damian Jennings’s Great Britain women’s under-20 side in Kavadarci, Macedonia.

Having clinched promotion to Euro A by reaching the final with a superb 59-40 win over Portugal, they went on to capture the Euro B title for the first time, beating the undoubted favourites Slovakia 47-46 in a nervy finish after being 25-14 up at half-time.

Buchan top-scored against the Slovaks with 13 points, and finished the tournament averaging over 10 points a game to be GB’s top scorer as well as averaging 7.7 rebounds per game and 1.6 assists.

It was a mature performance which suggests the Denny High FP could soon be pushing for a place in a GB senior squad currently not overloaded with big players.

Allison, like GB senior team member Rose Anderson a Portobello High School FP, led the rebounds with nine in a long, crucial stint in the final.

A feature of the tournament was the increasing minutes and growing confidence in their Great Britain team role of the two Scots, with Allison still eligible for this age group next year as is another Kool Kat Kathryn Taylor, who made it all the way to the last 14 only to be cut before the tournament.

Allison, who red-shirted last season for Old Dominion, had 26 minutes on court in the 59-40 semi-final win over Portugal, scoring eight points, taking five rebounds, giving four assists and having three steals in arguably her finest ever game.

The basketballscotland National Volunteer Recognition Awards took place on Sunday 4^th July at the basketballscotland head office, with numerous volunteers recognised for their contribution to the sport over the past season.

As with any awards, there has to be a winner and the Panel of Judges (themselves volunteers), selected the following worthy recipients.

 School Aged Volunteer of the Year

Sara Plummer – Clark Eriksson Fury

Sara is a level 2 table official, a qualified coach and is a regular statistican for Clark Eriksson Fury.  She has been a key member of the coaching squad at Larbert High School and also coaches with the Fury under 14 development teams both boys and girls. Sara also table officiated at the National Cup Finals, the British University Games and the Senior Men’s international fixtures against Norway.

Young Volunteer of the Year

David Legge – Perth Phoenix

David is a hugely committed member of Perth Phoenix BC and has made a significant contribution to the club in the past season.  He is head coach of the cadet men and several of his squad are involved in the U15 and U16 National squads. David is also assistant coach for the U18 men as well as a statistician for the club.   David also coaches Perth and Kinross development squads and the Tayside and Fife Talent Development Programme.

Ronnie Mather Contribution to Coaching

John Bunyan – Clark Eriksson Fury

John has had one of most successful years in coaching this past season as head coach of Falkirk High School and Clark Eriksson Fury, winning the Open Girls and Open Boys teams School Cup Competitions, the Junior Men league and cup double and the Senior Men Scottish Cup.  This award however is not about winning but the continuing hard work and number of hours that John puts into the basketball in Falkirk and the surrounding area.  This past season he has accumulated over 30 hours of coaching per week at all age groups from primary level to national squad athletes in his national league squads. John has recently completed his UKCC level 3 coaching award and is also involved as a coach tutor.

Douglas Bader Contribution to Officiating Award

Bruce Hendry – Basketball Tayside & Fife

Bruce has taken on the role of Tayside and Fife Officials Co ordinator for the past few years and this year has successfully allocated referees to the Senior Men’s Division 1 and 2 leagues and the Senior Women’s league all season.  Bruce has also appointed officials to University games for Abertay, Dundee and St Andrews Universities.  Bruce has appointed referees to over 150 games with only 6 games being postponed due to lack of officials.  Bruce has over 40 years experience in officiating in both Canada and his native Scotland he still referees games in the Tayside and Fife local leagues and has also covered a few National league games this season supporting younger referees.

Volunteer of the Year Award

Amanda Wilson – Dundee Sharks and Basketball Tayside & Fife

Amanda has volunteered her time with Basketball Tayside & Fife for the past 6 years and is also a member of Dundee Sharks.  She continues to organise and promote Women’s Basketball in the region and has had a positive effect with both the number of team and the number of players increasing.  Amanda’s organisation and communication skills have led to the league being completed with no defaults or forfeits this season. She is a committee member for Basketball Tayside & Fife and is also a level 2 table official.  Outside of her organisational work, she is frequently seen on the table at games at both National and local leagues fixtures.

Chairman’s Award

Maureen McNeill – Glasgow Storm

Maureen has been involved in basketball for over 25 years and she still contributes over 20 hours per week even though she has “cut back” her involvement with Glasgow Storm.  She is a stalwart of Glasgow Storm and her role is that of mentor, social worker, development officer, and general mother hen.  She is a regular at local league games and tournaments. She has a level 3 tutor award and has coached the Special Needs National British basketball team at the Beijing Special Olympics in 2007/08.  Maureen also recently won the Glasgow City Council Volunteer of the Year award for services to basketball.

 Special Recognition Award

John Grant – Arbroath Musketeers

Having recently retired from basketball after a 34 year involvement, the Panel wished to recognise John’s contribution to basketball over a hugely successful career.

John’s main role was as founding member and head coach of Arbroath Musketeers, the club he ran and coached for 17 years, winning numerous national titles and developing a number of top Scottish players and coaches. 

Out with the club activity, John coached the highly successful Arbroath High School programme, led several International programmes, was basketballscotland’s Coaching Director, lead a number of developments in coach and teacher development for the governing body.  He was also involved with numerous committees at regional and national level as well as volunteering to host several international basketball events in Arbroath.

John has been the driving force behind Arbroath Basketball for almost 20 years and his contribution will be missed both locally and nationally.

 Service Awards

Service Awards are presented for service to basketball over an extended period of time.  This year 13 service awards were presented taking the total to 149.  Those recognised this year were:

25 Year Service Award

Maureen McNeill

20 Year Service Awards

Chris Dodds

Trish McMahon

10 Year Service Awards

Paul Boath

Kim Bunyan

Marie Caie

Jennifer Gallacher

Russel Kesson

5 Year Service Awards

Alan Buchan

Stewart Gillies

Davy Forfar

Paul McBrierty

Gordon Munnoch

basketballscotland took the opportunity to thank all volunteers throughout the country for their contribution to the sport.

To align with the launch of basketballscotland’s new website, Facebook and Twitter pages we are challenging all players, coaches, officials and enthusiasts to show where you are going on your summer holidays.
  
Competition, basketballscotland Summer Holidays Challenge 
  
Description, Take a picture of yourself beside international landmarks in basketballscotland attire. Whether its a t-shirt, hoodie, training vest or whole tracksuit take a picture beside the landmarks, signs, with characters or anywhere you can think of. Email the photo to grampian@basketball-scotland.com and they will be posted on the basketballscotland Facebook page. The winning photo will be decided on by our pannel of judges, in three criteria.

- People, who are in the photo with you? Are you with friends, family or somebody famous? Michael Jordan?! 
   
Prize, the winning photo as chosen by the pannel judges will be posted on the basketballscotland website and the person who sends it in will recieve a basketballscotland goodie bag, T-shirt, waterbottle and free mini basketball. 
Please note that you must send your name, age, and address in with your photograph to ensure that we can send your prize to the right place. All photos will be posted on the basketballscotland Facebook group, but only the winning photo will be posted on the basketballscotland website. basketballscotland reserves the right to use any photographs sent to them for publicity and advertisment. Any persons sending photographs to basketballscotland to enter this competition accepts these conditions.