Basketball

MARISA SCHRODER

Prep Basketball Coordinator

Prep had another successful Basketball season. Four teams contested the home and away games against the Greater Public Schools. The results across the season were outstanding with only a few losses.

To prepare the boys for the season we organised Vicki Sams to come in during Term Two. The boys enjoyed going to her sessions and she was a great help in the skills department. We have continued with our Years 1-3 skills program in Term Four with Vicki Sams and the senior Basketball players from Senior School. The basketball season ends with the ever so popular internal competition for boys in Years 4-6. This year is has been well supported with six teams entered and 8-9 players in each team.

Prep basketball would not run as smoothly if it was not for the support from Mr Dave Claxton and his team of Senior boys. Thanks also go to Mr Daniel Trollope for his time and effort. Big thanks to Mr Thomas Peisley for helping organise referees for the Internal Competition. Thanks you also to the coaches for their timeless effort in teaching the boys the skills they require for the GPS Competition.

COACHES 6A Mr Sasha Lomakin 6B Mr Stephen Robinson 5A Miss Brinley Meagher 5B Miss Sarah Matthews

Finally, I would like to thank our Basketball Captain, James Gilmour, who assisted on game day and always keen to help out with training. The boys and coaches appreciated all parents who have supported their sons this season. It was great to see so many parents driving up to Brisbane to watch the games and cheer on each of the teams. Good luck to all the Year 6 Basketball players who are heading to the Senior School in 2016.

Team Most Valuable Player Coaches Award 5A Zachery Dart Harrison Spittle 5B Zak Howard Oliver Dunn 6A Peter Sophios Joseph Ryan 6B Baxter Lynch Lachlan Free

DAVID CLAXTON

Director of Basketball

Our GPS Basketball season this year saw 23 teams representing the school with our Open First team being runner up to Ipswich Grammar School for the premiership, with all our year group teams winning more than 50% of all games played during the season. Well done.

The Open First team had some memorable wins against BBC and Churchie away and a very comfortable win against Nudgee here at home, finishing the season with six wins and two losses.

This was a very good result for a team consisting of many Years 10 and 11 players and well supported by our Senior leadership group of Captain Daniel Chorley and Vice-captain Elliot Starr, along with Sean Gray and Isaiah Richardson.

Queensland representative honours went to Isaiah Richardson,Tom Sheida, Hudson Kaddatz and Cody Meuleman, along with Elliot Starr representing NSW Country to an U18 National gold medal.

Several of our teams experienced very successful seasons. They included our 7B and 8B teams with Luka Brooks, Max Carlos, Aidan Kitchin and Taj Young all making excellent contributions for their team. Other teams who performed well were our 8A and 9A with Ethan Hillman, Lachie Wharington, Casey Murphy and Cody Meuleman doing very well for their respective teams. The 7A team started the season very well, but lost a couple of games in the latter part. Nicholas Cross and Luke Williams had some excellent games for their team.

Our awards night was extremely well attended in the Annand Theatre at the end of the season and congratulations to all our award winners for season 2015.

Much of this success can be attributed to the great work of a combined group including the Coaches, our Friends of Basketball support team and the TSS Suns club that provides weekly competition for our players in the Gold Coast Junior fixtures. Many thanks also must go to our Basketball Manager, Mr Dan Trollope, and Prep School coordinator Mrs Marisa Schroder, along with Ms Siobhan McGuire in Sports Office and Mr Ben Trollope, Strength/conditioning and first aid.

AWARD WINNERS FOR 2015

Year 5 Awards 5B Coaches Award ........... Oliver Dunn 5B MVP .............................Zak Howard 5A Coaches Award ...... Harrison Spittle 5A MVP................................... Zac Dart

Year 6 Awards 6B Coaches Award ............ Lachlan Free 6B MVP............................ Baxter Lynch 6A Coaches Award ............ Joseph Ryan 6A MVP........................... Peter Sophios

Year 7 Awards 7C Coaches Award......... Domenic Hui 7C MVP ...................... Sebastian Butler 7B Coaches Award ..............Max Carlos 7B MVP .............................Luka Brooks 7A Coaches Award ...... Nicholas Cross 7A MVP ......................... Luke Williams Year 8 Awards 8C Coaches Award................ Alex Mills 8C MVP ........................... Rocco Taplin 8B Coaches Award ......... Aidan Kitchin 8B MVP ................................. Taj Young 8A Coaches Award ....... Ethan Hillman 8A MVP ................. Lachie Wharington

Year 9 Awards 9D Coaches Award ........... Finley Gray 9D MVP .................... Luke McIlwraith 9C Coaches Award ........... Ben Funnell 9C MVP ............................. Taj Merrion 9B Coaches Award ...... Ted Thompson 9B MVP ..................... Cooper Murphy 9A Coaches Award ....... Casey Murphy 9A MVP ..................... Cody Meuleman

Year 10 Awards 10D Coaches Award ..... Robert McCullough 10D MVP ...................... William Hunn 10C Coaches Award ............. Tom Meo 10C MVP ....................... Jordan Philips 10B Coaches Award ........ Jack McLean 10B MVP ........................ Louie Corkill 10A Coaches Award ............. Ike Woods 10A MVP .................... James Mahoney

Year 11 Awards 11C Coaches Award .... Will Scotchmer 11C MVP ......................... Sam Morrow 11B Coaches Award ........ Darren Wang 11B MVP .......................... Kingsley Lee 11A Coaches Award ........ Joshua Cross 11A MVP ..................... Callum Grimes

Opens Awards 2nds Coaches Award .. Stephen Sanderman 2nds MVP ...................... Hugo Mayson Most Successful Team .... Open First V, 8B and 7B

Open First V Awards Best Club Man ............ Daniel Chorley Coaches Award .................... Elliot Starr MVP ......................... Isaiah Richardson

OPEN FIRST X BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: M. SAVIC, I. RICHARDSON, D. CHORLEY, H. KERR, T. SHEIDA, MR D. TROLLOPE (MANAGER) SECOND ROW:: MR D. CLAXTON (COACH), H. MAYSON, E. STARR, S. GRAY, C. GAGER, H. KADDATZ

OPEN SECOND X BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: S. SANDEMAN, L. CASS, H. MAYSON, J. CASHMAN, G. LYHNE SECOND ROW: S. HAYEK (COACH), S. NOLAN, J. PAULSON, J. SCAYSBROOK, F. SVENNSON, M. MAYO

11B BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: K. LEE, J. HUGHES, J. SCHMARR, S. LIU, Z. MERRION SECOND ROW: L. HIGGINS (COACH), J. PURTON, J. CHEN, L. MAXWELL, D. WANG, B. LEE

10A BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: E. WILLIAMS, J. MATTHEWS, R. HAGBECK, J. MAHONY, I. WOODS SECOND ROW: D. SIMANIC (COACH), J. ROTHERAM, M. GRANT, O. HAYEK, J. DUNN 11A BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: L. FAN, M. SCAYSBROOK, D. FLYNN, J. SEO, I. COCCO SECOND ROW: O. PRESTO (COACH), J. CROSS, H. KERR, J. LAYT, R. SHIM, C. GRIMES

11C BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: W. SCOTCHMER, S. MORROW, E. SHIELDS SECOND ROW: S. HAYEK (COACH), T. WALSH, L. SCHEMISH-LAHEY

10B BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: K. JO, V. NEDUNCHEZHIAN, J. MCLEAN, L. CORKILL, F. CHEN SECOND ROW: B. LEE (COACH), W. LAYT, J. CHEN, R. DAVUI

10C BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: E. CHEN, L. WALLACE, T. MEO, C. FITENI, E. VAN DER VEGT SECOND ROW: BACK ROW: Q. GAINEY (COACH), R. MCCULLOUGH, J. PHILLIPS, O. DENNIS, O. SHERRAH, M. LOVETT

9B BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: A. SHIELDS, F. LYNAM, T. THOMPSON, H. CHEN SECOND ROW: A. PRESTO (COACH), C. MURPHY, M. KERSTEN, O. GALLAGHER

9D BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: F. GRAY, T. ZHU, J. CHIU, B. WEIMERS SECOND ROW: BACK ROW: I. JO (COACH), C. STEWART, L. MCIIWRAITH, H. BATTY 9A BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: H. KNUDSEN, Z. GREGORY, S. MCMENAMIN, J. RUDD SECOND ROW: W. FINCH, M. HARRIS, C. MEULEMAN, F. BAILDON, C. MURPHY ABSENT: MR A. CREIGHTON (COACH)

9C BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: T. EDMUNDS, T. MERRION, T. CORBETT SECOND ROW: L. PERRIN (COACH), J. POTTER, B. FUNNELL, J. MARIANI

8A BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: E. HILLMAN, B. KELLY, N. LUKASHOV, M. FREEMAN SECOND ROW: L. COATES (COACH), R. MURPHY, M. MANLEY, L. WHARINGTON, M. ANDONAKIS

8B BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: M. LAMBIE, A. HOPKINS, T. FAIRINGTON, W. BOOTH SECOND ROW: N. LINNANE (COACH), S. WARD, L. DEBELAK, S. STEVENS, T. YOUNG, A. KITCHIN

7A BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: J. BOX, N. CROSS, L. WILLIAMS, G. PAUGA SECOND ROW: I. TAHERE (COACH), J. BROWN, J. YUEN, O. PORTELLI, Z. WILLIAMS

7C BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: N. CLOSE-INNIS, J. HAWKINS, D. DOUGLAS, N. BALTUS, N. OXLEY, SECOND ROW: B. LEE (COACH), S. BUTLER, D. HUI, B. COOK, V. GANGASANDRA, Z. NIXON 8C BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: J. CLAXTON, A. MILLS, C. SELBY, C. GRAY SECOND ROW: J. MARTIN (COACH), R. TAPLIN, J. HUTCHISON-STRACHAN, J. WARE, H. CROOKS

7B BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: C. ROBERTS, L. BROOKS, M. CARLOS, T. SCHWERKOLT, L. GOLDIE SECOND ROW: J. GREGORY (COACH), Z. ROSSITER, M. BRANCH, H. DEVANTIER, J. DAVID, T. JACOBSON

6A BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: T. CONDON, H. STAPLETON, P. SOPHIOS, D. TYLER-BATTAGLIA SECOND ROW: J. RYAN, L. ROSS, J. GILMOUR, C. MARKS COACH: MR S. LOMAKIN

6B BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: L. LANE, L. FREE, J. YOO, B. LYNCH SECOND ROW: D. SELBY, A. KITCHIN, C. ILLES COACH: MR S. ROBINSON

5B BASKETBALL

L TO R: A. KAWINSKI, H. O’CONNOR, O. BEECH, .Z. HOWARD ABSENT: O. DUNN COACH: MISS S. MATTHEWS 5A BASKETBALL

SEATED ROW: H. GRAY, J. STUART, Z. DART, S. FERRIS-NATHAN SECOND ROW: H. SPITTLE, M. DAVIS COACH: MS B. MEAGHER