Fifteen-year-old Georgia Minear returned home from a long weekend of competition in Melbourne to learn that she had been added to the Under 19 Australian Gems team that departs on a two week tour of France on Monday June 16.
The team will compete in two international tournaments during their stay in France.
It is the first of two tours the Gems will have in the build-up to the Oceania qualifiers (in Adelaide in August) for the 2009 World Junior Championships.
Georgia joins three other SA girls in the team, AIS Scholarship holders Kelsey Ireland, Bree Farley and Tess Madgen.
Her selection is well deserved following a number of good performances at Australian Development and Gems camps.
She will return home just in time to join her Under 18 state metro teammates for the National Championships in Ballarat next month.
Neil Gliddon has been the Head Basketball Coach at SASI for just over 15 years, having commenced in February 1991.
The position here involves development work with talented 15 to 17 year old boys and girls. The SASI program is linked to Basketball Australia's National Intensive Training Centre Program, and is a major pathway into both the basketball program at the AIS and the National Junior Teams program.
Prior to joining SASI as a full-time coach Neil was involved in coaching and administration at club level in South Australia for over 20 years, all at the Sturt Basketball Club. During that period he had experience and sustained success in all junior age groups and also coached at senior level for several years. He is also an experienced Junior Coaching Director at club level, a position in some ways not dissimilar to his present role. He also coached a number of junior state teams.
Since commencing at SASI 'bench' coaching has been very limited. He had one season at senior SEABL level in 1995 where his team reached both their conference final and national final. He has also had two part seasons where he filled in at Under 18 level at Norwood and Eastern Mavericks. Both groups had SASI squad members and achieved success in finals during his brief time with them.
Ben Haines- Strength and Conditioning Coach Alec Buttfield - Biomechanist Luke Gallagher - Video Performance Analyst Brendan Tammo - Athlete Career Education Annette Eastwood - Physiology Matt McGregor - Psychology Leigh Smith - Strength and Conditioning
PROGRAM
OVERVIEW
The SASI basketball program is a development
program providing a nationally coordinated training
environment for elite and emerging 14-17 years old athletes.
It aims to develop South Australian athletes for AIS
programs, national junior programs and for international
competition. The program caters for regional athletes
through a strong satellite programs.
It is a part of a well developed and highly regarded
national training centre network.
The program's long term aim is to provide athletes with
the ability to perform in Australian junior and senior
teams. Its secondary function is to provide excellent
basketball education to athletes who will perform in
state representative teams and the Adelaide men and
women's teams in the national leagues.
BASA junior age programs - Under age development
squads - State team squad programs - SASI NTC program
- AIS elite development program - National League programs
- Australian Under age squads - Australian Senior squads.
The squad members play in their respective
District team competitions. Annual training camps are
conducted and an annual international tour for graduates
is included in the SASI program.
Kate BURKEVICS
Jody BUSBRIDGE
Lauren CANNELL
RaquelCONRY
Stacey EVRENIADIS
Cayla FRANCIS
Alice GEE
Zoe GRAHAM
Kara HARGREAVES
Fallon HOOPER
Jessica KELLER
Emma LANGFORD
Lauren LEES
Ashleigh LUSTICA
Lauren MANSFIELD
Jessica MCPHAIL
Victoria NINNES
Amy PORTER
Nicole ROMEO
Laura RULE
Kelsey WARREN
Abby BISHOP
Megan CRUMP
Kate GLADSTONE
Kate JARRAD
Michelle KAMINSKI
Teresa KINROSS
Christina KOKKINAKIS
Rebecca LOCK
Nikita-Lee MARTIN
Mia NEWLEY
Kimberley OLSEN
Erin PIERSCIONEK
Elizabeth WRIGHT
Casey BEAUMONT
Lisa COLEMAN
Ebony CURWOOD
Megan GRIFFIN
Chloe HENDERSON
Trudy HOLLAND
Renee JORDAN
Tara ROBINSON
Lisa SCAGLIA
Jackson AMOR HAYNES
Ty BARTON
James BOONSTOPPEL
Aaron BRADBROOK
Matt COOMBE
Stephen CSONO
Jarryd FILDES
Michael FLORANCE
Rhys FRENCH
Luke GILES
Owen GIOVINE
Sam HARDING
Harri HARVEY
Ben HOWELL
Thomas HUXFORD
Josh KRAKE
Michael LUCAS
Jason MOORE
Mitch SIMMONS
Sam WHITTLESTON
Lawrence BLOOD
Philip BROWN
Robert CAMERON
Adrian-Jan CHEATER
Brett COLLINS
Matthew DE CURE
Jordan DODMAN
Trent FILDES
Zac FISHER
Jack GARRETT
Adam GAVRANICH
Soren GEMO
Jordan LONG
Christopher MOLITOR
Ben SCOTT
Shannon SEEBOHM
Andrew SZEKELY
David BOYD
Rory CRADDOCK
Matthew FISHER
Shannon HOFMANN
Joe INGLES
Jordan KIES
Vladimir KISIN
Reagan KNOTT
Daniel LALIC
Jamie LEES
Max PAPENDIECK
Tom ROWE
Luke TEDMANSON
Daniel ZACHARJAK
