Basketball New Zealand

All-NZ Camp

More than 80 athletes and coaches descend on Palmerston North in the next nine days for Basketball New Zealand’s All-NZ Camp.

The Emerging Junior Tall Blacks and under-16 boys get things started on Thursday with day one of their five-day camp at Massey University and Arena Manawatu, before the Emerging Junior Tall Ferns and under-16 girls arrive on Monday for a five-camp camp ending January 30.

The annual camp, held in the Manawatu capital for a second year, offers a chance for BBNZ’s coach and player development staff and elite age-group coaches and athletes to start preparations for their respective 2009 campaigns and developing them towards the Junior Tall Blacks and Junior Tall Ferns and eventually the senior national teams, the Tall Blacks and Tall Ferns.

“It’s for our elite athletes. We’ve got the under-16 and under-18 age groups this time,” BBNZ player development officer Sue Pene said.

“It’s the start of our preparation for the FIBA Oceania qualifiers for the under-17s this year. This starts the season for the Emerging and under-16 groups and it also gets the players and coaches together in a focused elite environment.”

Athletes and coaches will work through both on- and off-court sessions during the camp, with one or two trainings per day, fitness testing and intra-squad games on the final three days, and education sessions that cover nutrition, strength and conditioning and goal-setting.

“The on-court sessions are mainly fundamentals, game education and situations and then they have off-court sessions like nutrition – they have to cook their own meals and for the coaching staff tonight – strength and conditioning, fitness testing and setting goals, helping them set out their training and competition schedules and workloads,” Pene said.

Most of the under-16 athletes come into the All-NZ Camp directly from the 2009 Koru Development Tour to Albury, New South Wales, where New Zealand teams competed in the Australian Country Junior Basketball Cup last week.

The Emerging squads will contest the FIBA Oceania Under-17 Championships in August, while the under-16 squads will contest the Australian Under-16 State Championships in Ulverston, Tasmania, in July.

New Zealand’s other major age-group tournaments in 2009 include the Junior Tall Blacks at the FIBA Under-19 Championship for Men in Auckland from July 2-12 and the under-18 squad at the Australian Under-18 State Championships in Gawler, South Australia, in April.

The All-NZ Camp programme began in 2005, with the first two camps held in December in Auckland, before switching to Palmerston North and January dates in 2008.

All-NZ Camp

Palmerston North
Boys: January 22-26, 2009
Girls: January 26-30, 2009

Athletes

Boys
Emerging Junior Tall Blacks
Steven Adams (Wellington), James Ashby (Massey), Phillip Baldwin (New Plymouth), Elliot Bryers (North Harbour), Alonzo Burton (Hawke’s Bay), Tamaki Courtney (Rotorua), Magnus Holding (North Harbour), Tom Ingham (Nelson), Aled Jones (Palmerston North), Michael Karena (Nelson), Zeb Lovell (Nelson), Ravi Mani (Hawke’s Bay), Te Aro Pairama-Lewington (Wellington), Kirk Rangiawha (Waikato), Czebalos Smiler (Hawke’s Bay), Ollie Smith (Otago), Ruihana Te Nahu (Rotorua), Croydon Thompson (Canterbury), Joseph Webb (Wellington), Tim Wyatt (North Harbour)

Under-16
Tim Apisai (Counties-Manukau), Logan Botica (Massey), Scott Cameron (Nelson), Ben Crombie (New Plymouth), Taylor Cross (North Harbour), Taylar Davidson (Nelson), Aramis Dennan (North Harbour), Lachlan Fenwick (New Plymouth), Ethan Flintoff (Waikato), Kurt Heatherley (Waikato), Jordan Letoa (Kapiti), Jordy Jamieson (North Harbour), Aaron Keppler (Waikato), Matthew Lacey (North Harbour), Brynn McKenzie (Waikato), Lawson Morris-Whyte (North Canterbury), Quentin Potts (Massey), Oliver Shallcrass (Nelson), Reuben Te Rangi (Counties-Manukau), Tom Vodanovich (Wellington), Hoani Walker-Te Pania (Porirua), Andrew Weston (Wellington), Josh Young (Counties-Manukau)

Girls
Emerging Junior Tall Ferns
Georgia Agnew (Waikato), Veshae Asaua Wilkinson (Waikato), Teneille Asaua Wilkinson (Waikato), Whitney Cairns (WBOP), Aleesha Coulter (Counties-Manukau), Megan Craig (Whangarei), Penina Davidson (Waitakere), Deena Franklin (North Harbour), Dallas Frederikson (South Canterbury), Renee Johnson (Otago), Kayla Kiriau (Wellington), Brooke Leaver (Auckland), Marlia Lisala (Canterbury), Sarah MacDonald (Southland), Georgina Lee Papahadjis (Canterbury), Shannon Perrett (Nelson), Kalani Purcell (Waikato), Pamela Purdie (Rotorua), Rhaiah Spooner-Knight (Waikato), Josie Stockill (Hawke’s Bay), Moengaroa Subritzky (Waitakere), Shanice Swain (Hawke’s Bay), Hannah Wong (North Canterbury)

Under-16
Marnie Block (North Canterbury), Lee Brill (North Harbour), Jaimie Campbell (Marlborough), Deena El Shall-Puketapu (Hawke’s Bay), Lucy Heenan (Southland), Monique Hornby (New Plymouth), Morgan Hunter (Southland), Isabella Lawrence (Waitakere), Emma Mayo (Wellington), Ellie Ngatai (Buller), Shemaiah Parai (Waikato), Morgan Roberts (Waitakere), Te Oramae Solomon (Massey), Stacee Sturm (Hutt Valley), Alex Svoboda (North Canterbury), Faustina Tuala (Massey), Te Ao Watene (Waikato), Meaghan Wilby (Wellington), Hana Wilkinson (Nelson)

Staff

EJTBs
Coaches: Doug Courtney, Colin Driscoll

U16
Coaches: Seth Weakley, Dale Sharp
Guest coach: Jeff Green
Manager: Gerard Mullin

EJTFs
Coaches: Sue Pene, Sarah Molisa, Helen Richardson
Manager: Robyn Ruka

U16
Coaches: Rachel Gwerder, Sean Fuller, Tyler Wilkinson
Manager: Rena Keightley

Regional Coach and Player Development Officers
Mata Cameron, Bill Eldred

BBNZ Staff
Jemma Prescott

Physios
Nathen Foulagi, Ying Ong

Strength & Conditioning Trainers
Peter Homburg, Ron Werner

Nutritionist
Sarah Burkhart