Last Thursday 28 January, Ipswich Basketball Club hosted a trial to select players for the 2010-11 senior team at the Kesgrave Community Centre. We had a showing of 20 players from clubs in the local and surrounding area take part, as well as four juniors from our Under 16s and Under18s teams.It was an exciting evening for the club, as a long standing ambition by the Club’s Head Coach of the boys programme – Nick Drane – has started to take shape.

After putting the players through their paces and to get them warmed up with some fundamental drills, we then organised the players into four teams and observed them in scrimmage situations for the remainder of the evening.

The players really gave a good account of themselves with some intense play and a display of sportsmanship between the teams which was important for me to see.   There were a few players who had expressed initial interest prior to the trial that were unable to make it, due to work and other commitments. It’s with this in mind that we are holding another trial to give these players the opportunity to take part.

We have also selected a group of players from the first trial to take part in the second session. We want to make sure that all the players who have expressed interest get the opportunity to be part of what will be an exciting upcoming year for basketball in the region.

The second session will take part on 12 February, 8-10pm, at Westbourne Sports College.

Below is the list of players selected from the first trial who we would like to invite back to the second session. Players selected from the first trial and invited to the second session are as follows:

Sam Saggers
Robert  Randall
Aaron Miles
Joe Rudd
James Fairs
Mike Holbrook
Matt Ward
Alec Ward
Steven Eley
Jacob Swift
Anton Dixon
Andrew Taylor
Lloyd Aldis