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Congratulations to Lee Coulson for winning Ceredigion Sports Coach of the Year, Lee deservedly won this award for bringing basketball to Mid Wales, he is the Secretary for the Mid Wales League.

Lee is the National U16 Women's Coach and is presently working hard with the help of James Morgans preparing the girl's to represent Wales in the FIBA Competition in Gibraltar in July, he will also be off to Andorra 2 weeks later as the Assistant Coach to the U18 Women's team.

Available Coaching Positions

Candidates are being sought for the following coaching positions within Basketball Wales ENDC.

U14's Boy's Assistant Coach

U15's Boy's Assistant Coach

U16's Girl's Assistant Coach

U18's Men's Assistant Coach

Senior Men's Futures Squad Assistant Coach

All these roles are voluntary and will be based out of the ENDC Rhondda Fach Sports Centre, Tylorstown and will require the successful candidates to attend once monthly training sessions at ENDC and potential overseas travel. We are looking for hard working coaches who are willing to make a long term commitment to Basketball Wales and the ENDC programme. Candidates are required to have a sound basketball knowledge with a willingness to develop their skills in coaching further. All successful candidates will be enrolled into the Performance Coach programme and will be mentored by the Elite Performance Director and will be given every opportunity to advance their qualifications through this programme.

All interested parties are to send a cover letter and brief cv to Darren Oakey at elite_performance@basketballwales.com by close of business 20th June 2013. Interview dates will be set once a short list has been selected.

WALES U18 V IRELAND U17

WALES U16 V IRELAND U17

OFFICIALS

ASHLEY FISHER, RHYS PLATTEN, KARL SITIENE

SARA WILLIAMS, EMMA TOMKINSON, DANNY OWEN

RESULTS

SATURDAY

FIRST GAME WALES 30 IRELAND 75

SECOND GAME WALES 40 IRELAND 60

SUNDAY

FIRST GAME WALES 41 IRELAND 85

SECOND GAME WALES 22 IRELAND 92

Basketball Wales is proud to have Welsh Clubs and teams competing at different levels across the VCARS.co.uk National League. These clubs are providing the competition and development ground to produce better players that can potentially go on to represent Wales.

It brings even more honour to Wales when some of these players are recognised by their divisions for the hard work and outstanding performance they put in.

Basketball Wales would like to congratulate the following players for their achievements in the 2012/13 season:

Alan Duppa                 Mold Magic                             VCARS.co.uk D4 Men (North)

Player of the year

Matthew Gwynne        Glamorgan Gladiators             VCARS.co.uk D2 Men

Player of the year

Stef Collins                  Cardiff Archers                        VCARS.co.uk D1 Women

Player of the year

Basketball Wales is sorry to announce the resignation of the Senior Men's Head Coach, Steve Williams. Coach Williams has been in charge of the team since 2007 and in that time, the national team programme has grown significantly, which is a testimony to Steve's involvement. Unfortunately, due to the increase in duties, roles and time required to fulfil the role of Senior Head Coach, Coach Williams is no longer able to commit the necessary time needed due to his work commitments. 

Basketball Wales would like to take this opportunity to thank Steve Williams for all his hard work over the past years and Steve has indicated that even though he cannot commit to coaching the senior team, he will still be involved with the Welsh National Team in any way he can.

Please find in the download section of this website the scoresheets from all of today's games

Over the next few days the top scorers will be posted both on her and on our social media sites

Well done to everybody involved today from the schools, parents, officials and BW officials

The results from today's school final are as follows:-

KS3

1st - Porthcawl
2nd - St Richard Gwyn
3rd - Mold Alun
4th - St Gerards

KS3 Girls

1st - Porthcawl
2nd - St Cyres

KS4

1st - Cwm Rhymni
2nd - Ysgol Gwyr
3rd - St Gerards
4th - Flint High

Damien started his International career with Wales as assistant coach to the Wales Senior Women's team that competed in 2006 DIV C tournament and then went as Head Coach in 2008 in Luxembourg. 

Jennings has been involved with GB basketball since its inception in 2006, working with the Under-20 Women's programme, the World University Games team and the Senior Women's national side.

As head coach to the Standard Life GB Under-20s he led the team to the European Division B title in 2010, and then to a best ever performance by a British team when they reached the quarter finals of the European Championship Division A in 2011. More recently he was part of Tom Maher's Senior Women's coaching team in their build up to the summer of 2012.

Jennings said: "Having been part of the coaching team since 2006 I'm honoured to have been given the chance to lead British Basketball's Women's programme into EuroBasket 2013. We are ambitious and we want to build a team capable of challenging for honours at the top of the international game.

"After convincing UK Sport that basketball was worthy of investment, we have a tough challenge ahead, but it's one I know both staff and players will thrive on. We want to deliver the best performances possible at the up-coming EuroBasket in France.

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