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Hills Basketball Association offers a wide variety of basketball competitions. Games are played at Hills Basketball Association managed facilities including Hills Basketball Stadium, Dural Recreation Centre and Bernie Mullane Sports Complex.

WINTER COMPETITION

APR – SEP

SUMMER COMPETITION

OCT – APR

HUSTLE 3X3 TOURNAMENT

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

SCHOOL BASKETBALL

ALL PROGRAMS

AFFILIATED CLUBS

LOCAL COMPETITION

Contact Competitions on 9894-8944

Email competitions@hillshornets.com.au

View all Association Policies & Procedures please click here.

PLAYER PATHWAY

Wondering where you should start? Take a look at our player pathway to see where you begin your journey with Basketball and where you can go. 

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Basketball runs year round. Generally, Winter Season runs through school terms 2 & 3 and Summer Competition runs through terms 4 & 1. 

Check our website around 6-8 weeks prior to see when Team Entries open for the season, or when we are accepting Individual Entries. 

 

We accept Individual Entries around 8 weeks out from the season start. 

For Miniball Individuals | Hills Basketball will form a team for you, with other newbies.

For Junior & Senior Individuals | Your name will be added to our Individual Player Board. We will then direct teams looking for players to this board. Whilst every effort is made to accommodate individual nominations, placement is not guaranteed. 

One of the most-debated topics is what defense should we teach Junior players? Zone, Pressing, Man-to-Man? The answer is without a doubt man-to-man defense! We can promise you that in the long-run, you will develop better basketball players by playing man to man defense.

Man-to-Man Defense will help you win more games in the long run and develop better players. You may not win as many games at first, but I guarantee you’ll be more successful both as a team and as individual players if you teach man-to-man defense principles (page 3) properly to juniors.

Coaches use zones to hide weaknesses, lack of player development or to contain athletic opposition players. We understand why coaches teach zones but we believe if you work through the principles of man-to-man you will reap the reward of smarter, stronger and more versatile athletes and a far more successful team in the future. As a coach, you get to see players succeed at higher levels because of the foundation you set as a coach.

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Local Competition fees are separated into 3 payments: 

  1. Team Nomination Fee 
    1. Divided by the members of the team 
  2. Player Registration Fee
    1. Annual Fee (Used for 2 seasons) 
    2. Required by every individual as qualifies as insurance
  3. Game Fees 
    1. Team cost, divided by the number of players. 

Learn more about the fee breakdown on the season page. 

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