We had lots of teams playing Basketball this year. Below are some of their reports on the season.

Senior A Boys Basketball

This year, the Logan Park Senior A Basketball team entered in the B grade for the season.

Although it was my final season playing for Logan Park, I don’t think I could have enjoyed it more. The boys played together last year really stepped up and helped lead the team, and the fresh faces who joined this year gave it their all, everyone grew immensely as players and as a team as a result. Every Friday night, pretty much all the team showed up ready and raring to go, if you looked only at the results of the games, we might not have seemed as successful as we could have been, finishing in the middle of the pack by the end of the season, but every game was a fight down to the very last second, with our game against the winning team actually being really close.

I’m really proud of how the players have grown and improved over the years that we’ve all been playing. The final few games really showed just how much better we had gotten as a team over the season and it was a great way to end my time playing Basketball at Logan Park. A massive thanks to Jason “Frosty” Frost, for being an amazing coach over the past two years and helping us grow and become the players that we are today. Thank you to all the teachers and parents who supported us throughout the season and I wish the best of luck to the boys who are playing again next year.

Team List: Joseph Dewhirst, Jim Pearson, Bjorn Bargemann, Theo Molteno, Reuben Bosworth, Henry Jeong, Finn Lillis, Kevin Chung, Jonathan Hsieh, Tarren Loughran

- By Tarren Loughran

Girls Senior Basketball

The Logan Park Girls Social Basketball Team had a super fun last year playing the sport. We have grown as friends and as teammates. We would like to thank Mrs Frost for allowing us to play as a social team and thank her for everything she has done for us! We look forward to hopefully starting a social basketball team outside of school so we can continue playing the sport we love so much. And as we (or high school musical) likes to say: Once a Logan Parker, always a Logan Parker.

- Abby Spronken

Junior A Girls Basketball

Throughout the season, the Junior A Girls Basketball team had a really fun year.

In the Junior Secondary School winter tournament we successfully won two games, coming third in our pool over all of Term 2 & 3. At times it was difficult due to the small number of players in our team, but we did our best. We practiced with the Senior A girls team most weeks, so this was a good way to challenge our skill development. This made us have to work together, building great social skills.

Team members:
Isa Degas, Cristina Barriga, Helen Ruan, Cathy Zeng, Phoebe Guiles-Hughes, Macauley Hannah, Lisel Nader -Turner 

- By Isa Degas

Junior B Girls Basketball

During the deep dark winter of 2017, a young group of enthusiastic(ish) intrepid basketball players came together twice(ish) weekly to learn some new epic(ish) basketball skills.

To be honest, Rosa and I didn’t really know what we were doing; sure we had mastered(ish) the layup- but coordinating a food-obsessed basketball team was initially a little beyond our skill set.

We quickly learnt that the qualities of punctuality and attendance cannot be described as a young basketballer's forte- having ourselves forgotten about a few practices. The attendance rate varied throughout the term; from around fifteen down to three- we hope it wasn’t our coaching skills that put them off. The rate of improvement can be clearly observed in the statistics; stating that we consistently lost, up until our final glorious game where we brought home victory over OGHS. (This was by over 20 points) - super proud of our wee munchkins, who will hate us for calling them that.

One of the most memorable, suspenseful moments throughout our coaching career occurred near the end of the season. We rolled up, keen as mustard to crush some blue shirts, only to find that three of our players had jumped ship in favour of the delights of a nearby dairy. The three musketeers finally showed their sugar smeared faces thirty seconds after the default time, proudly nursing a one dollar mix whilst shamefully sipping a coke zero. That moment sure takes the cake; but other honourable mentions include; selflessly delivering basketballs into our own hoop and incorporating rugby traditions such as the scrum into basketball whilst yelling “charge!”.

Throughout the season the team's skills improved immensely, in synergy without coaching skills (we hope). Cheers guys for the making our lives interesting this season, we can’t wait to do it all again next year. 

- By Rosa Rhiannon Miles-Seeley & Zoé Degas