Official 2013 Handbook
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Celebrating 30 years of partnership between Basketball Victoria & McDonald’s JOIN IN THE EXCITEMENT of Primary School Basketball at its best McDonald’s Hoop Time! Presented by Basketball Victoria & McDonald’s OFFICIAL 2013 HANDBOOK McDonald’s® Hoop Time Handbook 2013 Index Page • Welcome To McDonald’s Hoop Time 4 • Welcome from our Partner 5 • What is McDonald’s Hoop Time? 6 • McDonald’s Hoop Time Entry Details 6 o Entry Fees 6 o Round Robin Venues and Dates 6-7 o Fixtures 7 • McDonald’s Hoop Time Rules 7-10 • McDonald’s Hoop Time State Champions 10-11 • Champion of Champion Schools 12 • McDonald’s Hoop Time 2012 Results 12-13 • McDonald’s Hoop Time 2013 Finals Dates and Venues 13-14 o Regional Finals - Metropolitan 13-14 o Regional Finals – Country 14 o State Grand Finals 14 o Finals Venues 14 • Uniforms 15 • Basketball for ALL 16 • Wheelchair Basketball Clinics 16 • Games to Teach Basketball Skills 17 • Inclusion in McDonald’s Hoop Time 18 • McDonald’s Skill, Fun & Play 18 • Aussie Hoops 19 • Aussie Hoops at your School 19 • McDonald’s Hoop Time Minis 20 • McDonald’s Hoop Time Website & Facebook 20 • McDonald’s Sports Grants 21 • McDonald’s Hoop Time District Days 22 McDonald’s Hoop Time Junior All Star Girls 2012 Senior Future Stars State 1/4 Finals State Championship Final Port Melbourne PS vs Chelsea Heights PS St Catherine’s PS vs Camberwell Sth PS 30/11/12 26/11/12 www.hooptimebasketball.com.au Cover image: “Senior All Star Girls State Champions Kent Park PS – 16/12/12” Welcome To McDonald’s® Hoop Time Dear McDonald’s Hoop Time Coordinator, Here we are again! We are ready for another incredible year of McDonald’s Hoop Time. I would like to take the opportunity to reflect on what was a record-breaking year in 2012! I am so proud to be a part of this exciting program and I’m extremely proud of what we all achieved in 2012! Our first McDonald’s Hoop Time day was held on 18th April at Frankston with the Phillip District day & our final round robin day on 16th November at Mill Park with the Bundoora District day. In between this time, we had 570 schools participate, coordinated a total of 189 round robin days (including a record 56 District days linked in with SSV districts) comprising a total of a record 3,953 teams and broke 35,000 participants for the first time ever. Even more importantly, we introduced approximately 10,500 kids to the sport of basketball through our Rookies division! I am proud of how the program continues to grow into Country Victoria including new days at Moe & Wangaratta. We had a record 23 regional final days comprising 515 teams from all over the State and the best of the best made it through to our 4 State Grand Final days with the top 144 teams in Victoria vying for that all-important McDonald’s Hoop Time State Title. Our finals series concluded with an exciting opportunity for our final 2 Senior All Star Boys and 2 Senior All Star Girls teams: our 2 State Championship Final games were played prior to a Melbourne Tigers NBL game against the Cairns Taipans at the Cage on the 16th December. It was a great day and a wonderful atmosphere with two very competitive finals, especially in the boys, which went down to the wire and was won on the buzzer! We had our McDonald’s Hoop Time Minis program continue in 2012. The program that began in 2009 and targeted Grade 1’s and 2’s (for further details on this program please go to page 20) saw 9 days held across 8 venues. In those days, we had 139 teams participate and approximately 1,200 kids taking part in the program. We are looking to build on this in 2013, as these kids are the future of McDonald’s Hoop Time! We continued to build on the successes of 2011, and we achieved so much more than we could have ever hoped for knowing it would be year of plenty of disruptions to staff. Highlighted by our BIG move in June from our offices at MSAC into our new offices at the State Basketball Centre & the absence throughout the year at times of Hoop Time Administrator Leanne Del Toso, who continued in her role with the Australian Women’s wheelchair basketball team, the Australian Gliders. Leanne achieved her dream and made it into the squad to travel to London for the 2012 Paralympics. We were so proud of her achievements in making the squad and eventually walking away with a silver medal! Leanne also decided upon her return she would be leaving us to move into other roles and challenges and to continue developing her profile as a Paralympian and as a disability advocate. I would like to personally thank Leanne for her 5 years as the administrator of the program and for the 2 ½ years we worked together in achieving the results we achieved. She will always be a part of the Hoop Time family and we wish her all the best in her future endeavours! This year also saw us have two interns throughout the year. We continued our relationship with Ballarat University and their Internship program for the 3rd year Sports Management students. This year, we had Zac Hedin on board from the end of July right through to the end of our finals series at the end of November. He was a valuable asset and assisted in many areas of the program. He learned a lot in his role and loved his time at Basketball Victoria. Also coming into the program for a 7-week stint was Richard Campbell. Richard came from Deakin University & took on Leanne’s role while she was away in London. I am very thankful to both these guys, as it relieved the growing pressure throughout the busiest time of the year for McDonald’s Hoop Time and we would not have achieved the results we saw without their contribution in 2012! Well Done guys! I would like to thank all of our coordinators and supervisors for a terrific effort in 2012 and I sincerely hope that you all continue on in 2013. A thank you to McDonald’s for another great year of support and sponsorship, thank you to all the schools involved, in particular the teachers who work tirelessly to organise McDonald’s Hoop Time for their students, the coaches and parent helpers who assist the school on McDonald’s Hoop Time days and most importantly, to the many students who enjoyed their McDonald’s Hoop Time experience and ensure that the days continue to run. This year, McDonald’s & Basketball Victoria celebrate 30 years of partnership. It is a very exciting time for everyone involved as we join in the year-long party and see even more kids becoming involved in basketball throughout Victoria, including for the first time ever, Regional Finals in Country Victoria! Join us for another year in one of the best primary school based basketball tournaments in the country! Chris Angus Hoop Time Participation Officer, Basketball Victoria Welcome from our Partner Hoop hoop hooray! McDonald’s and Basketball Victoria are celebrating 30 years of partnership in 2013 in what is one of the longest-standing sporting sponsorships in the state. Since 1983, McDonald’s has been supporting the development of sporting talent through our relationship with Basketball Victoria. This year’s 30-year calendar is full of activity, with Australia’s own NBA star Andrew Bogut helping us to celebrate this special milestone. McDonald’s Hoop Time is the cornerstone program of our partnership involving over 35,000 junior basketballers, and with the 2013 season commencing, it’s fantastic to see continual participation growth year on year. Our relationship with Basketball Victoria over the last 30 years has offered many young junior athletes the stepping stone to play professional basketball on the world's sporting stage and McDonald's Hoop Time, alongside other grassroots activities, serve to teach all involved about the true spirit of sportsmanship. Through McDonald's Hoop Time, we are committed to engaging Victorian kids in a friendly, safe and supervised environment, offering them the opportunity to learn valuable skills such as teamwork. We would like to extend our thanks to the schools, teachers, coaches, parents and most importantly, the students who continue to enjoy being a part of McDonald's Hoop Time over the years. We look forward to celebrating our 30-year anniversary in 2013 and hope that this year's program will inspire many more primary school children to unite and participate in the grassroots activities that attribute to an active and healthy lifestyle. McDonald's Victoria Ronald McDonald at our State Grand Final Days What Is McDonald’s® Hoop Time? McDonald’s Hoop Time is a series of one-day basketball round robins held at local basketball stadiums around Victoria. With a 30-year history, the program offers children in Grade 3/4 (Junior) and Grade 5/6 (Senior) the opportunity to play in a fun inter-school competition with qualified referees and receive some great prizes along the way. Described as the “Twenty20 of basketball”, a game usually runs as 2 x 8 minute halves and provides plenty of fun and excitement in the shorter format. McDonald’s Hoop Time really is ‘Basketball For All’ and as a development program of Basketball Victoria, it caters for students at all levels of ability by having three different playing divisions.