Liddicoat Basketball, Melbourne and Australia wide
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.
Junior basketball runs differently in Victoria and NSW: different rep leagues, fees, trial rules and child safety regulators. Start with the guide for where your child plays.
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 guide
The 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.
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Basketball 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? In Sydney or NSW? Start here
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.
All skills and drills Not sure where to start? Take the 2 minute skills check
Online coaching for players aged 7 to 17. Your own coach on call, at least 3 check-ins a week timed around club training, and a plan built for your child, with you in every conversation. The first 4 weeks are free, then it's $49 a week, and there's no card to start.
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.
If you have a question that you want answered and it isn't here - talk to head coach Cameron and he can talk you through the question that you have.
