2015 Under 11 Club Championships wrap up!

u11 Boys 2015 Caloundra Tournament
U11 Boys 2015 Caloundra Tournament fun
Dragons in action!

North Brisbane Dragons boys participated in the Under 11 Club Championships, held at Caloundra on 10th-12 July 2015. The Under 11 Club Championships provides a great opportunity for our young players to play against other teams from all around South East QLD, and provides a great stepping stone for those boys who are considering playing representative basketball in the future.

While most other clubs in the Championships fielded teams with a number of representative players, we assembled a young Dragons team that comprised of a mix of players from both the under 10 and under 12 Dragons teams who had no championship/tournament basketball experience. In fact five of our boys come from the Under 10 Dragons and had never played on the big hoops before! The championships provided a great challenge for our boys who found themselves playing against much older, bigger, faster and more experienced boys. Despite the challenges, the boys showed some amazing courage and skill to come away with 3 wins and finish the tournament in 8th position out of 14 teams. We are very proud of all the boys for the way they stuck it to some of the tougher teams and we even had comments from some opposition coaches on how hard the boys played.

Our goal for the championships was to further develop the boys by giving them a taste of tournament basketball against some tough opponents. We can confidently say that by the end of the tournament, there was an incredible improvement in every boys’ skills, teamwork and toughness.

At the commencement of our preparation for our tournament we sat the boys down and set three key expectations:

  1. Give 100% at training and at games
  2. Teamwork and encouragement
  3. Have fun

The boys demonstrated all of these and more, and certainly lived up to Dragon’s club values of Integrity, Teamwork, Diligence and Sportsmanship. We cannot be any prouder of the way the boys presented themselves throughout the championships.

On behalf of the team and parents, we’d like to thank the Dragons committee for providing team shirts for the boys. The boys looked great in team colours!

Congratulations boys on a fantastic tournament. We are very proud of you.

Adam and Leona Austin

The team are:

Jacob Austin, Oskar Olechnowicz, Dwayne Balao-As, Joel Prior, Kailan Sales, Darcy Olssen, Kallen Mattsson, Isaac Smith.




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