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Basketball Queensland 2008 Annual Report Basketball Queensland | PO Box 1281, Milton, Q, 4064 | P 07 3377 9100 | F 07 3371 7239 ABN 14 758 363 873 Table of Contents Topic Page Chairman’s Report 3 - 4 CEO’s Report 5 - 10 Board Members, Regional Delegates and Staff 11 Coaches & Officials Education 12 Representative Basketball Awards 13 Queensland State Teams 14 - 16 QABL Competition Results and Awards 17 - 18 ACC Champoinship Results 19 BQJBC Results 20 State Classics Competition Results 21 Under 14 Junior National Championships 22 Annual Conference 22 Awards Dinner 23 Finance Director’s Report 24 Finances - financial year ended 31 December 2008 25 - 35 The Queensland Government provided over $300,000 to Basketball Queensland Organisational Development Costs as well as our Special initiatives, “Girls With Game” and “BQ33” (introducing 3 on 3 basketball to Queensland) to get more Queenslanders active through sport and recreation Basketball Queensland Annual Report 2008 2 Chairman’s Report TO MEMBERS AND STAKEHOLDERS It is with pleasure that I present the 2008 Annual Report to Members and Stakeholders. 2008 saw the tabling of our second strategic plan for Basketball Queensland. The exercise of preparing this document has given the Board further insight into the complexity of growing amateur sport. The 2007 plan was successfully completed in full. We have continued to deploy development officers in key growth areas and as a new initiative, we have provided grants to Affiliates to employ their own development staff. This has proved very popular. We have had satisfactory growth this year although better outcomes would have been more pleasing. There is evidence to suggest we may get better return on our ‘association development’ expenditure by concentrating on retention whilst still delivering measured organic growth initiatives. A project is underway to get a better understanding of why a significant proportion of our membership does not renew in following years. This review stage will conclude in mid 2009. The apparent lack of facilities across the state is clearly causing a constraint on growth. BQ has commenced a project to identify all basketball courts across Queensland, their costs, constraints to access or use and quality of the facilities. The objective of this exercise is to prioritise our areas of need for discussion with Government. We want to present a professionally developed case, backed by facts. The final stage of this exercise will necessarily involve discussions with each Association around July /August 2009 to confirm information and conclusions. The elite end of our sport continue to produce excellent results. The Board congratulates all those involved in State Representative Teams and AIS scholarship recipients. The delivery of elite programs is currently under review with the objective of BQ taking a more meaningful role in the process. The NBL has been a topic on the minds of the basketball community across Australia. With the demise of the Brisbane Bullets, BQ, on behalf of its members recognised the opportunity to lift the profile of our sport whilst proposing a model for a future NBL team that delivers closer relationships with our Affiliates. The model has subsequently been accepted by Basketball Australia as the preferred model. BQ in its own right has secured several significant benefits for our membership that will become obvious next year despite the failure to field an NBL team in 2009. This remains a complex issue with the current economic climate not helping. Consistent with my past commitments on our involvement, BQ has no intention of becoming financially linked to any NBL team other than through service delivery agreements for Affiliates. Basketball Australia and the Australian Sports Commission conducted a wide-ranging review of our sport at the national level during 2008. The States, BA and the NBL signed commitments to implement recommendations coming out of the review. It delivered a model where the new Board of BA will consist of independent parties plus one nomination from the States and the NBL. It also delivered a unified sport under one entity. Funding is also to flow from Government when the process is completed. On the financial aspects of BQ, I am pleased to report our balance sheet remains very strong. This is a planned outcome to ensure BQ has the financial capacity to meet unexpected eventualities and opportunities both for ourselves and our Affiliates. We and our Affiliates can take comfort in the fact that we are well placed financially given the direction of the economy at the moment. We expect to see some problems emerge within our ranks in 2009 and we will be able to deal with these internally because of our strong financial position. Basketball Queensland Annual Report 2008 3 The budget for 2009 includes a freeze on fee levels and modest increase in expenditure to drive new initiatives for growth as detailed in our 2009 plan already distributed to Affiliates. This is an opportune time to publicly express my thanks to Steve Lennon who has been the Finance Director for BQ since 2001. Steve was part of a completely new Board in that year. BQ was fundamentally insolvent in 2001 and there were stressful times trying to dig the organisation out of a very deep hole. Steve’s professional management and clear intent to build a strong balance sheet ensures BQ has a solid financial base from which to continue to work for our sport. Steve retired at the end of 2008 and we wish him well for the future. He has set a high standard for our future financial stewardship. One of the Board’s key aims over the past three years has been to improve service delivery, communication and consultative opportunities with our Affiliates. I’m buoyed by what I see as a heightened level of co-operation between BQ and Affiliates and between Affiliates. BQ has deliberately established more Affiliate based discussion groups on various elements of our sport to seek recommendations about how we deliver competitions and quality development programs. I can proudly say the Board has accepted every recommendation coming from these groups during 2008. Not enough thanks can be expressed to the thousands of volunteers who make our sport run so well. I think of coaches, assistant coaches, team managers, administrators, referees, mums and dads and hard working committees. Basketball would not exist without their tireless efforts. My thanks to my Board colleagues who, as volunteers too, have worked hard this year to provide strategic direction and support to our Affiliates. We have had a number of trying issues during the year and they have been handled very professionally. To the CEO and our staff I say thank you. These are the people charged with the task of delivering on the Board’s plans and decisions. Their commitment to our sport remains unquestioned and their time commitment goes well beyond an 8 hour day. As a sport we thank the Queensland Government for their continuing financial support and for the offers of assistance to get the NBL re-established in Brisbane. We again stand out as the second highest funded sporting body in the State. Funding levels are based on financial performance, management effectiveness, planning processes and achievement of agreed targets. My deep and abiding thanks to all the Associations and their hard working management committees. Again, the outcomes proudly reported in the following pages belong to you. As I finish my first three years as Chairman, I look forward to Affiliates allowing me the opportunity to work along side them for a further term. We have so much more to achieve. I commend the report to all members and stakeholders. Neil Fitzpatrick Chairman Basketball Queensland Annual Report 2008 4 CEO’s Report Basketball Queensland continues to perform well in all aspects of our business. Whilst our membership had a modest growth of 1.5% from 2007 to 2008, the five year aggregate growth in membership was 22.4% or 3,850 members (as shown in the graph below): Basketball Queensland had 21,020 registered members as at 31 December 2008. Regional membership is shown in the graph below: Basketball Queensland Annual Report 2008 5 The composition of the registered members is 62% male and 38% female which mirrors the proportions nationally. Growth of female members was greater than males in 2008 which is the first time that this has occurred in five years and is pleasing given the introduction of the “Girls With Game” program in 2008. Our membership is also biased toward junior players (players under 18 years old) with 61% of registered members under 18. Growth in seniors did however, outstrip juniors in 2008. Detailed in the graph below is the membership of all Affiliated Associations for both 2007 and 2008 so you can see how each Association faired in 2008. Association Membership 2007 to 2008 Basketball Queensland Annual Report 2008 6 As you can see most Associations had negative or very limited growth. The best performing Associations in terms of growth are shown in the table below: Association Growth Gold Coast 617 Logan 205 Rockhampton 150 University of Sunshine Coast 110 Mulgrave Coastal 95 One aspect of growth which has not been measured previously is retention of members. Preliminary investigations reveal that the average retention rate is approximately 50% which means that Associations have to grow by 50% each year just to stay where they are. Basketball Queensland will be conducting market research into this in 2009 to determine the reasons members leave the sport. If we could increase retention by 5% to 55% this would equate to approximately 1,000 additional members. Another issue that is impacting on membership growth is the lack of indoor facilities in areas with growing populations.