www.newzealand2009.fiba.com BULLETIN #3 MAY 1 NOTE FROM THE EVENT well as individual session tickets, with each session featuring two games: DIRECTOR Preliminary Rounds - North Shore Events Centre (NSEC) and ASB Stadium (ASB) NSEC - General Adult $15 Admission Child $7 NSEC - Allocated Adult $20 Seating Child $10 NSEC - Premium Adult/ Child $30 Courtside ASB - General Adult $15 LOCAL SUPPORTERS It is a great pleasure for New Zealand to host the Admission only 2009 FIBA U19 World Championship. We are a Child $7 country rich in sporting history and are looking Final Rounds - North Shore Events Centre forward to hosting the 15 visiting teams, along (NSEC) only NSEC - General with our own Junior Tall Blacks, officials and Adult $20 various international guests that will arrive in Admission New Zealand in a few months. Child $10 NSEC - Allocated Adult $25 Planning for the tournament is progressing well Seating EVENT DIRECTOR – tickets are due on sale to the public next week, Child $15 Dave Mee we have begun our marketing activation There are also some great ticket packages on [email protected] programme throughout schools and community offer, including: Family Pass, New Zealand groups and have secured comprehensive Supporters Pack, Deluxe Finals Pack and MARKETING television coverage with Sky TV. Premium Season Pass which provides a Dean Wilson courtside seat for all 39 games played at the [email protected] We are now in regular contact with all North Shore Events Centre. competing teams and officials, ensuring all MEDIA preparations are made for their arrival and an JUNIOR TALL BLACKS Dave Worsley enjoyable stay in New Zealand. We are [email protected] underway with the recruitment of 300 TAKING SHAPE volunteers for the tournament, and are pleased From a pre-Christmas extended squad of 30, TRANSPORT & TEAM with the enthusiasm of the New Zealand the NZ Junior Tall Blacks squad for July’s 2009 SERVICES community and their willingness to FIBA U19 World Championship for Men in Tom Waterhouse get involved with ensuring the successful Auckland has almost reached its final form. [email protected] running of the event. Head coach Kenny McFadden and his VENUES & We look forward to showcasing the best young coaching staff, including assistant Judd Flavell, ACCOMMODATION basketball talent, and New Zealand, to the world video technician Joszef Molnar and technical Trisha Webb in 61 days time. advisor Mike McHugh, trimmed the squad to [email protected] 15 following the JTBs third preparation camp at Regards, Te Rauparaha Arena in Porirua over Easter. VOLUNTEERS Dave Mee Nicole Dunn Porirua’s Matt Aird and Tipene Friday, Nelson’s [email protected] TICKETS RELEASED Josh Bloxham and Hutt Valley’s Riki Buckrell, who all made their JTB debuts at the Big V Tickets to the 2009 FIBA U19 World SPECIAL PROJECTS Pre-season Tournament in Melbourne last Championship will go on sale Friday 8th May. Lauren Watson month survived, along with fellow rookie, [email protected] Otago’s Tom Rowe, while five players who Tickets will be available to purchase online at suited up for the JTBs in 2008 did not escape www.ticketek.co.nz or at any of their outlets IT & ACCREDITATION the cut. Shane Goldfinch throughout New Zealand. [email protected] A variety of ticket packages are available, as Also included in the squad …continued over www.newzealand2009.fiba.com BULLETIN #3 MAY 1 were Richie Edwards, Dion Prewster and James Holland, who have not been part of this JTBs process to date, with high school and junior college commitments in the USA.

Returning players include Canterbury point guard Logan van Beek, Porirua shooting guard Brook Ruscoe, Harbour centre Rob Loe, ’s David Beck and Hemi Pairama- Lewington, and Otago’s Sam King and Morgan Nathan.

“It’s starting to get really serious,” McFadden LOCAL SUPPORTERS said. “It’s time to start fine-tuning. The last cut we had and now this cut, it’s very close. There’s not much difference talent-wise between the players.

Counties Manukau’s Poutu Edwards, Waitakere Logan Van Beek in action for the JTBs City’s Duane Bailey, Nelson’ s Adam Rainbird and Wellington’s Tom du Chatenier and Thomas Webb, who all represented the JTBs last year, INTRODUCING PŌRO missed the cut, as did Auckland’s David Garbett Pōro is the official mascot of the 2009 FIBA U19 EVENT DIRECTOR Ovens, while Melbourne-based Te Puao Silver World Championship. He epitomizes all that is Dave Mee was also elminated from consideration. good about basketball in New Zealand. A [email protected] basketball, big and strong, Pōro is a fun loving, Between now and late-May, when the squad patriotic bundle of energy who’s always up to MARKETING will re-assemble in Porirua for the final the challenge of getting the crowd pumped! Dean Wilson preparation phase, the group is split between Pōro’s intense passion for the game is matched [email protected] Auckland and Wellington, with specific workout only by his magnetic personality and fair play and training schedules. attitude. MEDIA Dave Worsley Ruscoe, Friday, Buckrell, Beck, Pairama- [email protected] Lewington and Aird train with McFadden, and occasionally with the , in the TRANSPORT & TEAM capital. Van Beek, who has joined the Auckland SERVICES Stars squad, Rowe, Loe, King and Nathan train Tom Waterhouse with Flavell as part of the NZ Breakers Academy [email protected] on the North Shore, while Bloxham is based in Nelson as a starter with the , VENUES & where Molnar is assistant coach. ACCOMMODATION Trisha Webb NZ Junior Tall Blacks Squad [email protected] Matt Aird (Porirua), James Holland (USA), David VOLUNTEERS Beck (Wellington), Josh Bloxham (Nelson), Riki Nicole Dunn Buckrell (Hutt Valley), Richie Edwards (USA), [email protected] Tipene Friday (Porirua), Sam King (Otago), Rob Loe (Harbour), Morgan Nathan (Otago), Hemi SPECIAL PROJECTS Pairama-Lewington (Wellington), Dion Lauren Watson [email protected] Prewster (USA), Tom Rowe (Otago), Brook Pōro will be touring around schools, community Ruscoe (Porirua), Logan van Beek (Canterbury) events and basketball stadiums leading up to IT & ACCREDITATION the FIBA U19 World Championships, so keep an Shane Goldfinch eye out for him! [email protected]