The Hibiscus Coast Under 13’s Girls Basketball Team was formed after four years of the Coast not having any girls teams at representative level. None of the girls in this years’ squad have any prior representative level experience but all the girls worked very hard on their individual skills and as a team to improve.
Recently the team participated in the Auckland ‘Inter-City Basketball Tournament’, where 9 teams based from within the greater Auckland area participated in a fierce competition over seven weeks. This tournament was a great build up in preparation for the BBNZ Age Group Premierships hosted at the North Shore Events Centre during the weekend of 5-7 August.
The girls commitment and team work came together to secure a hard fought 4th placing at the Prems, making themselves eligible to compete in the BBNZ Age Group Nationals Tournament”, being held in Napier over the week of October 7 - 21, 2011.
This is the first girls’ representative team from the Hibiscus Coast to make Nationals and the coaches and parents are very proud of the girls
Big congratulations to Leilani Schmidt-Geen, Mia Cunningham-South and Jazmin Tufuga for representing Gulf Harbour School as part of this outstanding achievement and best of luck to them all for the Nationals.
