Ballarat Junior Head Coaches Appointed

Thrifty Ballarat Miners Rush Juniors are thrilled to announce their Head Coaches ahead of the 2021 Victorian Junior Basketball League Season. The appointments include a mixture of experience who all share the common goal to see junior basketball players from Ballarat and Western Victoria excel on the court.

COMMITTED: Under-12 Girls Head Coach Megan Coach with Under-14 Boys Head Coach Chris Thornton and Director of Coaching Brendan Joyce. Photo: Khyal Thompson. 

Thrifty Ballarat Rush Juniors 

• Under-12 Rush - Megan Collins & Glenn White (Joint)
• Under-14 Rush - Rob Cooper
• Under-16 Rush - Lidina Constable
• Under-18 Rush - Rob Brown

Thrifty Ballarat Miners Juniors

• Under-12 Miners - Andrew Renfree
• Under-14 Miners - Chris Thornton
• Under-16 Miners - Joel Anderson
• Under-18 Miners - Andrew Dunn

Basketball Ballarat announced the Head Coaches ahead of the try-outs process which will commence once Covid-19 restrictions ease.  The Junior Elite Team Program intent is to field two teams in each age group for both Boys & Girls, but this will be dependent on numbers at each try out session and overall players numbers in each age grade.

Director of Coaching Brendan Joyce was thrilled to make the announcement ahead of the 2021 Victorian Junior Basketball League season.

“Our coaches are very experienced and have all coached our Thrifty Ballarat Miners Rush Junior teams in the past.”

Joyce said many coaches moved to other age groups to provide development and added experience in coaching different junior teams.

“These coaches have also been given autonomy to lead their age groups and are encouraged to work together with our other teams to assist with providing strong alignment of teaching our style of play with their age group teams.” Joyce said

Prior to Covid-19 Joyce was really pleased with the results in last year’s season and this year adapted to keeping coaches engaged digitally.

“We have used this year as an opportunity to do many Zoom Coaching Education Clinics with our Junior Coaches and provided further development opportunities for our domestic coaches”

“However there is nothing like getting out on the court and helping players improve and coaching your teams.” Joyce ended with.

Following the Junior Elite Teams Try-Outs Basketball Ballarat will commence the process of appointing all other coaching positions. The Thrifty Ballarat Miners Rush Juniors would like to thank everyone for their support through the selection process and are looking forward to developing the aspiring talent from the Ballarat and Western Victoria Region into stars of the future.

The Thrifty Ballarat Miners Rush Juniors Coaches are proudly supported by Cooke & Foley.