News

Now that BW and NWBA have had there AGMs the new season will be beginning soon. Wrexham basketball hope to enter at least one team into the senior league and are looking to enter an Under 18 and an Under 14 team into the youth central venue league, based at St David's School, Saltney on Tuesday nights.

Come along to training, see homepage for details.

The annual event is organised by our Sports Development team and aims to highlight the tremendous efforts of athletes, coaches and volunteers from our local communities to achieve sporting excellence in Wrexham.

Awards will be presented in the following categories:

Junior & Senior Sports Personality of the Year

Disability Sports Personality of the Year

Service to Sport Award

Junior and Senior Volunteer of the Year Award

School Achievement Award (Primary & secondary )

Coach of the Year

Club of the Year

Team of the Year

The presentation evening will take place on Thursday 3^rd November 2016 at Brymbo Sports and Social Complex. Nominations are encouraged from individuals, sports clubs, schools and volunteers to ensure that the outstanding work and athletic achievement of local people is recognised by the whole community.

The closing date for all nominations is Friday 23^rd September 2016

Nomination forms are now online please see link below

Web: www.wrexham.gov.uk/sportsawards

Although there is no youth training this Tuesday (5th July 2016) training will continue the following week. Please check twitter and facebook for updates. Youth training takes plave between 7 and 9pm at Ysgol Clywedog's sports centre. We currently have ages from eight to sixteen years old training.

Senior training continues at Glyndwr University's sports centre, Plas Coch Campus, every Monday between 8pm and 10pm. All abilities are welcome so come along and have a go.

British Basketball are consulting on the future of the game in Britain.

Have your say by completing the survey in the link below:

http://www.futureofbasketball.co.uk/

Wrexham Basketball's Under 16s went to St David's High School, Saltney, on Tuesday and took on the Bromborough Bulldogs in their first game of this season. They held the Bulldogs to s small margin of four points after the first quarter but Bulldogs started to creep ahead, finishing the half 14-8 ahead. It looked like Wrexham woul struggle to get back in the game at the end of the third with Bulldogs having a 28-18 lead. It wasn't to be. With Bulldogs in foul trouble and one of their key players being injured out the Warriors were able to press hard and gain some points on the turnovers. Coach Rich Holden lamented, "Maybe if we had put the press on earlier we could have won but we'll never know. The team worked hard but still has loads of room for improvement which augurs well for our future fixtures. You don't need to be a keen statitician to see where our strength is at the moment and so we need to have contingencies ready for when this doesn't work.

Wrexham was hoping to field two teams again this season but has struggled with the reliability of players, as work commitments and movement of players out of the area has hit club numbers. However, they held their own from the outset at Glyndwr University on Monday night. Both teams were exchanging baskets for most of the game with Wrexham taking a small lead in the first but Caernarfon Celts finishing the half three points up. Warriors pulled Celts, lead back to one point in the third but it looked as if the final quarter was the Celts' as they ran away with a nine point lead after four minutes. However, Warriors dug deep and swapped from a zone defence to a man, putting the pressure on the Celts and forcing some turn over ball. Clever use of time outs allowed the Warriors to use some set plays to get back in the game and take Celts to extra time. Neal Allen gave Warriors a great start to the extra minutes as he scored a three in response to Cameron Jones' two point drive. Gareth, Gadge, Roberts went on to calmly sink two at the free throw line for Warriors, followed by a hard drive from Trevor Wellsted. Wrexham needed to then just lock the game down and not make silly mistakes, which they did, winning the game 71 points to Celts' 62. Top Scorers Wrexham Warriors: Trevor Wellsted 16pts Caernarfon Celts: Ben Lewis 16 pts.

To all members. We are doing the registrations differently this year. Individuals will have to organise their own registration to Basketball Wales and then provide the club with a copy of their BW Registration Card (emailed to you after registration) before paying to register and play for Wrexham Basketball.

The link is here:   

http://www.bwregistrations.com/index.php

Looking forward to a great new season.