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For over three decades, West Coast Towbars has provided people across Perth metropolitan area with reliable products, expert service and friendly service. DISTRIBUTORS FOR: 4215022 www.westcoasttowbars.com.au PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE 2020 promises to be a watershed year for the Rockingham Flames organisation. Through the generous support of the Commonwealth Government, we have installed new seating on the Travis Moore show court which brings our seating capacity to more than 1000. This, together with the backboards and rings recently installed by the City of Rockingham, will see many new events come to our facility including the BWA grading INDEX tournament for the fi rst time. Page 5 A word from the coaches, Ryan The City of Rockingham is also moving to replace the Petrik and Keegan Crawford lighting in the stadium, with effi cient LED lighting set to help us save on power costs and improve the lighting on our show court. Page 6 2019 women's championship The Flames organisation will also install a large screen on the show court, and we have review received part-funding from the Commonwealth Government. Page 7 Flames game night experience In sadder news, we recently lost two great ex-presidents of the club, Ken Cull and Mike Moore, who both passed away. the hottest ticket in town These amazing men were massive contributors to basketball in Rockingham and their legacies Page 8 2020 fi xtures are still evident in making the club what it is to this day. Page 9 Memberships and merchandise The Flames family also lost Jason Welch, former SBL team manager and WABL coach, to cancer. All three men will be sadly missed. range On the court, Greg Hire and Josh Ritchart return in 2020, while we have recruited Robert Page 10 Chris Boag ready to shoulder Heyer, Jackson Hussey and Travis Durnin to the Flames men's team. expectations However, we lost one of our great Flames juniors, Luke Travers, who has been recruited by Cockburn Cougars. We wish Luke every success in his professional career and role with the Page 12 New recruit Jackson Hussey's Perth Wildcats. career, in his own words Alex Ciabattoni returns to our women's team in 2020, as do Christina Boag, Tayah Burrows Page 13 Beard brothers attached to and Dena English, while Chelsea Roberts has been recruited from Forestville and Courtney Stothart from Dandenong. the Flames These players join an amazing group of local players including Chelsea Petrik, Ryan Godfrey Page 14 Travis Durnin hopes to put injury and many others. #FlameOn worries behind him at new club Warren Boucaut Page 15 Kids' fun page President RBRA PICTURE / CREDITS Produced by Cover photo, page 5, 6, 7, 10, 12 and 13 all photos: Sports Imagery Australia. Page 13 Robert Heyer photo: South Bay Lakers/Facebook. 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I went from coaching fi rst men’s championship. college basketball in Canada to having The harsh reality of the league, though, is 13 the privilege of holding up a WSBL teams lose while just one experiences the championship trophy. euphoria of bringing home that ‘chip each It was a big change of roles coming from year, so we’re more than aware of just how being an assistant in the program for six hard this thing is to win. years to all of a sudden leading it. The Despite our best efforts and having the talent culture, the girls and the community at our disposal in 2019, we just couldn’t get have always had a massive impact on everything together at the same time to truly my life. I grew up in this program and contend. this club raised me. The lead-up to the 2020 State Basketball Our group this year will look signifi cantly League season has probably been the most labour-intensive off-season of my 16 different to the girls who had the privilege of pulling on the Flames jersey last years involved in SBL. We had three clear areas of improvement we needed to year. address: personnel, playmaking, and three-point shooting. We will be without club legend Darcee Garbin as she chases her Opals Olympic After an intensive recruiting period, we’d like to think we’ve recruited to address dream and settles into having her fi rst WNBL offseason off in a long time. those areas by bringing in Travis Durnin, Jackson Hussey and Rob Heyer. Maddie Allen will also be wearing a different shade of red this year as she suits Travis comes to us from Mandurah, where he won their MVP award last season. up for the Perth Redbacks. We are very grateful to have had Maddie for the Travis fi ts in seamlessly with the group, is super long, and shoots the three ball at a last two years and will embrace her when she returns home when we play the clip of about 35 percent. Redbacks and raise our banner in round 1. We also sadly say goodbye to club Most WA basketball fans are familiar with Jackson Hussey’s resume, and he comes captain Ella Kennedy who has decided to enter retirement. to us after a solid season at Willetton. A guard who can play the 1 or 2, he is a jet and proof of that is his stint with the Perth Wildcats in 2016-17. He’ll help Ryan Godfrey But we are also extremely excited with the returning cast of athletes who are with playmaking duties, an area where we fi nished a disappointing 13th in looking ready for SBL 20. We will have some late additions to the roster as girls return after the ball in 2019. from overseas and professional playing commitments. As always, we will look to fi nd our form and play our best basketball in the business end of the season. Finally, Rob Heyer comes to us via the NBA’s G League. He’ll literally be fl ying in from Oklahoma City’s G League affi liate, after playing nearly 80 games for the LA Lakers’ We aren’t defending our title – we are fi ghting for another one. Our goal is a G League affi liate team in the two seasons prior to this one. championship, as anything less would be disrespectful to the club and the dedicated volunteers who run it. An elite 2 guard, he shoots the three at around 45 percent, is an elite rebounder for his position, and is someone I’m desperate to see play in the fl esh, after watching However, more importantly, we are obsessed with the process of becoming months’ worth of fi lm of him during the offseason. champions. After that, most of the main guys you’ll already know. Ryan Godfrey will again lead We are always working on player development and preparing Rockingham from the front and start at the point; Justin Beard is back again, shooting it better girls of the future for their 300th SBL game; we are building our identity as a than ever and locking down opponents’ best wing players each week; Callum Beard group, and developing championship habits to create sustainable success; we is starting to break out during pre-season and at some point this kid will explode onto are learning how to play as a unit and honouring the past and future women the scene; Josh Ritchart is back for his third year with the club, and if he ever gets a who have worn, and will wear, the Flames singlet. clean run at it, he’s the best import big in the league by far. We will play an exciting up-tempo brand of basketball this year; we will look And of course Greg Hire is back for his third season in black and orange, and will to exploit our speed and really use our defensive ability as a weapon; we look anchor the 4 for us and no doubt do all the little things Greg is best known for. forward to playing in the best game-day environment in WA for women’s Needless to say, we can’t wait to get started.