The WBA officially adopted this new bylaw from Basketball SA - District league for this season.
It does affect a few grades eg U14GB and WD just to name a few
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In comps that do play an even number of games if 2 teams are tied on points we use this bylaw/philosophy to determine who finishes where
U14BA
I have manually removed some errant games from the U14BA ladder, it should now be correct.
ALSO
A make up game from sat Rnd 15 has been rescheduled to wk 16
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Congratulations and well done to all involved in the Whyalla Steelers last weekend for hosting a successful carnival. A great deal of planning, hard work and dedication goes into coordinating such an event, where junior representatives from Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Port Lincoln, Broken Hill, Roxby Downs, Cowell and Whyalla all get to compete.
🏀Thank you to all officials – coaches, team managers, scorers, timekeepers, umpires & court supervisors, for without you, they’d be no game
🏀Thank you to all the stadium canteen and maintenance staff, as well as our local community groups/businesses who supplied food, snacks and beverages at the various venues
🏀Thank you to Whyalla Town Primary, Hincks Avenue Primary School, Nicolson Avenue Primary School, Samaritan College SJC & Whyalla Secondary College for enabling the use of your facilities.
🏀And lastly, thank you to all the players and spectators for giving your all and creating an amazing spectacle of basketball over the weekend.
Our Whyalla Steelers achieved several great team and individual results!
STEELERS TEAM RESULTS
🥇U10B1 Winners
🥈U12B1 Runners up
🥈U12G1 Runners up
🥇U14B1 Winners
🥈U14G1 Runners Up
🥇U14G2 Winners
🥈U16B2 Runners Up
🥈U18B Runners Up
🥇U18G Winners
CARNIVAL MVP WINNERS
⭐️U10B Ollie Jonker
⭐️U12G Lilly Caust
⭐️U14B1 Matthew Jones
⭐️U16B2 Hudson Thiele
⭐️U16G1 Sienna Phillips
⭐️U18B Kai Edwards
⭐️U18G Brooke Dell’Oste
We wish our Whyalla Steelers all best at the Yorkers Carnival this weekend! Go Steelers! ❤️💙
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Congratulations
No local basketball Tonight or Saturday due the York Valley Basketball Carnival this weekend.
Makeups games for most of these missed games will be held sat the 22nd Feb.
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It's Hot!!
BUT the stadium Airconditioning is on and the temp is currently 30 deg and falling slowly. This is below our "35 deg inside the stadium" game cancellation temperature.
Like alot of associations without adequate air-conditioning that have cancelled, we did also look at this option, however we believe our stadium will be safely playable by tonight.
It's obviously still hot so please stay well hydrated.
Mandatory 5 min timeouts may be implemented by the Officials if teams fill it is necessary.
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Sent to the executive moments ago.
Whyalla Basketball Executive,
I wish to advise you all that at the conclusion of the final game on Grand Final night for summer season 24/25, March 15th I will be resigning from my role of President and from the WBA committee with immediate effect. I will be relinquishing my roles as Child Protection officer and member protection officer and will advise the ATO of my removal as public officer.
I am advising this now as there are current discussions and decisions which need to be made about future events or seasons which I really have no right to have a voice in.
I have given this decision some considerable thought and I have come to this conclusion that it is in the best interest of the association that I step away for reasons I will endeavour to explain.
In my opinion, as things stand currently there is a total lack of support and consistency in the way things are managed day to day dependant on on the strongest opinion in the room as opposed to precedent or common sense. I find this is frustrating, the world isn’t as black and white as some want it to be and there are times, when you need to show care and compassion for situations as they arise. I don’t believe we have adopted that manner over the past couple of years.
I do not feel that I have given the position I hold the appropriate attention it deserves in recent times. There has been personal reasons for that. You are all aware of certain parts, whilst others are fully aware of where I have been mentally. That struggle continues to impact me more than most are aware of.
I continued in the role at the last AGM for perhaps selfish reasons, I have had so much happen outside of the association that I wanted, what had become a very special part of me to be my anchor of normality. I have failed at that and along the way I have lost the passion that I once held.
I struggle with the manner in which we chew people out and dispose of them, the pool of people that are willing to devote their time to the association is limited so we need to take better care of those within it. I take ownership over some of the decisions that have been made over my journey, some which have not sat well with me for some time now.
I have a lot going on at work at the current time which is taking a lot of my attention and effecting my mental health. I have recently been made operational again and hope to back in Whyalla in the very near future Policing our streets again. I have enjoyed the support of some very special people who I consider to be very close friends, not only from within the executive but also our wider basketball community, these friendships mean more to me than they could ever understand and have helped me navigate through some pretty dark times.
By in large I have enjoyed my time on the committee and in the role of President. I have been lucky enough to work with some amazing people and achieve some amazing outcomes for the continuity of Whyalla Basketball.
Navigating Covid was a challenge for everyday life but making decisions about cancelling seasons and then working out the right time to return to play etc was something I never envisaged would occur. Terms such as close contact, Covid Plans, QR code SA Health sign ins or maintain the space were foreign to everyone’s vocabulary until that time, then they became part of daily life.
Perhaps my greatest memory was having the army in town and working closely with them, getting the personnel through the stadium for meals etc but culminating on a night of basketball games which had the stadium full to capacity and the atmosphere of good will is something I will never forget. I stood back at one point with the biggest smile on my face knowing that these moments will be hard to beat. It got close with 2023/24 Summer Season Grand Final Wildcats V Norths in the men’s A grade, the stadium was electric again.
I urge the executive to consider the past twelve months or so and understand that the manner in which things have been done previously with other committees worked well, as such we be reviewing our current practices to ensure they are done a whole lot better. Respect is something that is earned not given and right now I think we have lost a significant amount of respect from our membership base.
I wish you all the very best in taking our association forward. I hope the next President is someone of compassion and is able to connect with all members from our youngest to oldest.
I know that Whyalla is going through tough times and I fear will go through tougher times in the near future, that will be a challenge to navigate. Whoever either steps up or someone new steps into the role of President will need to ensure they promote basketball in Whyalla in the best possible light, money will be tight and getting people to spend it playing sport will be a significant challenge.
Obviously with my children still involved at this stage with umpiring, games managing and playing I will be out at the stadium to watch them. I will be forever proud looking up on the honour board and seeing my name as a life member of this great association.
Finally can I say thank you for allowing me the privilege to hold the position of President for almost 12 years. It was a role that was at times frustrating but rewarding at the same time. I wont miss the scheduled two hour meetings which stretch out of 3 or 4 with Hoffy chatting away but I will miss part of the satisfaction in seeing plans come together to get people of all ages playing the sport of basketball.
Best of luck to you all in the future.
Jeff Spry
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To the man who has spent countless hours, years, months dedicating himself to Whyalla basketball, thank you just doesn't seem enough. Not only thanks to you Jeff, but to your family for the support they have given not only you but the association in the things that you have done. President's role is the toughest and the most rewarding role. Personally for me thank you for the support and guidance you have given me in my time on the exec, and the friendship i have built with your family. Whyalla Basketball will not be the same without you at the "throne" but will see you not only at the stadium but around town. Find peace in your decision xx
Thank you Jeff for all your years service to the Whyalla basketball community 🏀 Wishing you good health and happiness moving forward into your next adventure 😊
Beautifully said Jeff. On and upwards. 🌹
LANE

Ray Girvan – Nomads and Me
My name is Ray Girvin.
I was a founding member of Nomads Basketball Club, in Whyalla in 1971 where I ended up playing more than 250 games over a 10 years period with them.

Mike Osborne’s Whyalla Experience
I arrived in Whyalla in January 1972, newly married and school teacher at Whyalla High School.
I had played some District basketball with Glenelg and had taken up coaching early in my career and loved it.

Spencer Hotel Super Challenge – 1986
November 1986 when a touch of NBL came to Whyalla.
By 1986 the National Basketball League was becoming established in Australia.

Alan Castle – Life Member Testimonial, 1995
Details of Alan Castle Former President and Life Member of the WBA.
Background and playing career.

Barry Wadingham – Life Member Testimonial, 1995
Dear Publicity Officer,
I hope what I have sent is of some use to your committee. I have written those names I can remember on the back of the photos, the actual dates I am unsure about.

Parker Dix – Life Member Testimonial, 1995
Dear Publicity Officer,
Darren, sorry I’ve taken so long to write but I’ve been a bit slack in trying to put things into words.

Roy Lydeamore – Life Member Testimonial,1995
With reference to your request for information concerning my involvement in Basketball in Whyalla over the years I wish to advise that I worked as gatekeeper for 30 years, firstly at the McBride Terrace courts, the rec centre and at Jubilee Park.

Hall of fame for NT’s ‘Magic Johnson’, 2012
IT has been confirmed that Darwin and Australian basketball great Michael AhMat will be inducted into Basketball Australia’s Hall Of Fame later this month.
& VIDEOS

John Spooner
Our latest 3 part Video instalment is with ex WBA President John Spooner.
It was filmed last year but has taken interviewer Trevor Castle some time to edit due to the amount of content John provided.

Tia Bails, 2019
From Steelers to Rockets.
This Months video interview instalemnet by Trevor Castle features another one of Whyalla’s young female high flyers.

Ray Girvan, 2019
Ray Girvin is a true basketball tragic.
He fell in love with the game when he played his first game for a team called Nomads back in 1971.

U16 Nationals – Jorja Eldridge Interview, 2017
Get to know one of Whyalla’s young stars!
In January Jorja played in the Under 16 Girls Australian Country Junior Basketball Cup in Albury then chosen in the ACJBC (Australian Country Junior Basketball Cup) team.

Keith Lenon – Past President Interview, 2017
Keith Lenon was a basketball pioneer in Whyalla.
When basketball began in Whyalla it was at the old Aerodrome (just behind where the wetlands are now) in 1955 and there were just 5 teams.

Allan Castle – Past President Interview, 2017
WBA Life Member Allan Castle moved from Pt. Augusta to Whyalla in 1969 and immediately became involved in the management committee of the Whyalla Basketball Association.

Army Challenge Video, 2016
Highlight footage taken by the Army at the first of our Army Vs Civilian Challenges during their July 2106 Exercise Hamel operations.
It was Grand final type atmosphere but better due to the amazing response from the local community to this charity event.

President Jeff Spry, 2016
Jeff Spry was elected to the position of WBA President at the AGM last year.
I caught up with Jeff in the middle of this term to get to know him a little and to talk about what he sees as the biggest challenges facing Whyalla Basketball at the moment.

Darren Quinn, 2015
Following his recent retirement from playing basketball at the end of Sumer Season 2014/2015, Darren Quinn, Whyalla’s most decorated player, agreed to sit down and tell his story.

Grant Application – Larry Bird in Whyalla, 2015
The WBA are currently in the process of applying for some grant money to start a lighting upgrade.
We applied to Holden for a grant via their Home ground advantage support scheme.

1955 – GIANTS
GIANTS– Starting in 1955 making them won of the founding clubs of International rules Basketball in Whyalla.

1955 – JAFFA’S
JAFFAS – Starting in 1955 Jaffas were won of the founding clubs of International rules Basketball in Whyalla.

1955 – MORMONS / LATTER DAY SAINTS (L.D.S)
LATTER DAY SAINTS (L.D.S)–In 1955 the Mormons basketball club became one of the WBA’s founding clubs.

1955 – POSTALS
POSTALS – Are one of the founding clubs of the WBA. They started as a group of workers from the South Australian Postal Institute.

1955 – TIGERS
TIGERS–In 1955 the Tigers beat the 30 -9 in the 1st season of International rules Basketball ever Played in Whyalla.

1957 – KNIGHTS


1957 – TARANTULA’S
TARANTULAS – Started in 1957 in the Inaugural season of Women’s International rules Basketball in Whyalla.

1960 – Y M C A
YMCA– Formed in the early 60’s the YMCA consisted of a number of men’s and boys teams.

1960 – DRAGONS
DRAGONS – Formed in the early 60’s by a group of Westy footballers the dragons and competed into the late 60’s.
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