Liddicoat Basketball, Melbourne
Straight answers for parents on clubs, costs, tryouts, grading and where games are played. And when you want someone in your child's corner, online coaching for players aged 7 to 17.
Your child wants to play and you are not sure where to begin. These are the questions every new basketball family asks, roughly in the order you will need them.
Read the full parent guideThe biggest decision most families face, and the one with the least plain English written about it.
The one most families get stuck on
Domestic is your local competition. Your child joins a club, gets placed in a team, and plays other teams inside the same association, usually on a weekend. Rep means being selected at an October tryout to represent your whole association in the VJBL, playing Friday nights at venues across Victoria. Rep is a bigger standard and a much bigger commitment. Domestic is not a lesser thing.
Read itBasketball in Victoria is run by local associations. Pick your area to see who runs it, where they play and how to join.
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Every association we cover Stadiums and venues Metro or country?
Registration, grading, tryouts and finals all run on a calendar nobody hands you. This is that calendar, and the competitions it runs through.
See the season calendar
Drills and fixes from a coach who runs them every week. Free to read, nothing to sign up for.
Online coaching for players aged 7 to 17. A training plan built for your child, a weekly check in and a written monthly review, with you in every conversation.
Every Victorian club working with children has to meet the Child Safe Standards. Here is what that means for your child, and what to do if something does not feel right.
Tryout windows, grading, key dates and what each level actually costs. Written for Victorian basketball parents, sent when something matters, not every week.
Send a question through the contact page or call 0422 082 792. If the answer is not on the site yet, it probably should be.
