The Philippine Basketball Association of Winnipeg (aka Lipenos) will be hosting an open club tournament on Friday, June 8 to Sunday, June 10, 2012 at Garden City Collegiate in Winnipeg. The event is inviting teams in the 11 to 45+ age divisions to register a team by the deadlione of June 1, 2012. Registration fee is $250.00 a team. For details...
April 2012
The Philippine Basketball Association of Winnipeg (aka Lipenos) will be hosting an open club tournament on Friday, June 8 to Sunday, June 10, 2012 at Garden City Collegiate in Winnipeg. The event is inviting teams in the 11 to 45+ age divisions to register a team by the deadlione of June 1, 2012. Registration fee is $250.00 a team. For details...
The Inner City Junior Wesmen Youth Basketball team will be hosting the Heart of the City Basketball Tournament on May 5-6 at the University of Winnipeg Duckworth Centre. The tournament is open to boys and girls teams in the 13-15 (boys and girls) and 16 and up (boys and girls) divisions. Registration fee is $250.00 per team. For more information including a registration form...
North Pole Hoops has announced that it will be hosting its first-ever NPH Manitoba Showcase in Winnipeg May 4-6 at Oak Park High School. The NPH event is open to all players (boys and girls) grade 8-12 in search of an opportunity for player development and national exposure. The NPH team has travelled across the nation in search of Canada’s top prospects including British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia. The focus of the event will once again be on the combination of exposure and player development. In addition to development and national exposure, players will receive an NPH reversible jersey and player profile head shots. Cost to register is $130 a player. For details and to register with NPH...
Ever ask the question: What are my responsibilities to the children I coach? Or, where does my responsibility start and end? Coaching Manitoba is offering an evening of information for coaches and volunteers that will answer these and other questions. Sport Manitoba will be hosting a Duty of Care session for coaches and volunteers. Our guest speaker will be Bruce Wood, M.A., D.A.A. is the Project Coordinator for the RespectED Support Line Project of the Canadian Red Cross. He will cover the topic of responsibilities of coaches and volunteers to their athletes and teams. These sessions will be held in the Sport for Life Centre Theatre. Two sessions (2pm and 6:30pm) have been planned for June 14 allowing your sports key volunteers to attend the evening session. There is no cost for this session. For more information...
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RANDON, MB – Brandon University women’s basketball coach Novell Thomas has signed his first recruit. Ambrea McDonald-Okoro, a former Saskatchewan Provincial team player, has signed a letter of intent to join the Bobcats for the 2012-2013 season. The 5-foot-11 post currently attends Winston Knoll Collegiate in Regina where she will graduate from in June. “Ambrea is a bright young woman who has great work ethic. I’ve been watching her play since early February and even since then she’s improved,” says Thomas. “She’s a good player now and still has the potential to become better. I’m excited to work with her moving forward.” McDonald-Okoro is the Bobcats’ first signing under Coach Thomas, who has indicated just how significant and memorable this signing is.
RANDON, MB – Brandon University women’s basketball coach Novell Thomas has signed his first recruit. Ambrea McDonald-Okoro, a former Saskatchewan Provincial team player, has signed a letter of intent to join the Bobcats for the 2012-2013 season. The 5-foot-11 post currently attends Winston Knoll Collegiate in Regina where she will graduate from in June. “Ambrea is a bright young woman who has great work ethic. I’ve been watching her play since early February and even since then she’s improved,” says Thomas. “She’s a good player now and still has the potential to become better. I’m excited to work with her moving forward.” McDonald-Okoro is the Bobcats’ first signing under Coach Thomas, who has indicated just how significant and memorable this signing is.
Check out today's collection of game scores from all levels of basketball in Manitoba...
The Big Country Beavers Basketball Club have released the schedule for this weekend's club basketball tournament. The event runs Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Lindenwoods Community Centre and St. John's Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg. The schedule and more information on the tournament can be found at...
Shaw is collecting food and raising $$$ for their "Together is Amazing - Fill the Food Bank 2012" food drive. The 
company goal is to raise 75,000pds for Winnipeg Harvest. Basketball Manitoba is calling on ALL school and club basketball teams to step up and help! Those who do could win a mobile broadcast of one of your games. Visit www.togetherisamazing.com for more details. Get a box and start collecting. Donations can be brought to the Sport for Life Centre at 145 Pacific Ave in Winnipeg's Exchange area. Donations can also be taken directly to Shaw @ 22 Scurfield Blvd. If you have any questions...
company goal is to raise 75,000pds for Winnipeg Harvest. Basketball Manitoba is calling on ALL school and club basketball teams to step up and help! Those who do could win a mobile broadcast of one of your games. Visit www.togetherisamazing.com for more details. Get a box and start collecting. Donations can be brought to the Sport for Life Centre at 145 Pacific Ave in Winnipeg's Exchange area. Donations can also be taken directly to Shaw @ 22 Scurfield Blvd. If you have any questions...Check out today's collection of game scores from all levels of basketball in Manitoba...
The Manitoba High School Sports Hall of Fame inducted six athletes, three builders and a team on Saturday in its 3rd Induction ceremony held Saturday at the Holiday Inn South on April 21. The sport of basketball was well represented with a number of individuals being included on the honours. Inducted this year was Rick Watts, Lynda (Kidd) Chorley, Frank McKinnon, Gladwyn Scott and Audrey Jones, Ed Alexiuk, Nick Papadakis, Chris Walby and Michelle Sawatzky. The team to be inducted is the Hapnot Collegiate (Flin Flon) Basketball Team from 1950-56. 
The Winnipeg Minor Basketball Association has released the remainder of the schedules for teams in the Community Club, Rising Stars League and the Senior Men's and Senior Women's League. To view the schedules and other spring league updates...
The MBCA would like to thank and congratulate all the award winners and team members from the 2012 All-Star Saturday festivities held at St. Paul's High School on April 21! Basketball Manitoba would like to thank the MBCA organizing committee for putting on the 2012 All-Star Saturday. Members included Lee Hurton, Jeff Laping, Rob Schrofel, Jen How, Jason Poponne, Jim Anastasiadis, JoAnne Small, Dean Favoni, Stacy Hawash, Kelli Sinnock, Sarah Lundgren, Ian Dickey and Adam Wedlake. We would also like to thank our volunteer photographers from Dakota Collegiate... Sonhi and Brittany. Thank you! The following 500+ pictures were taken at the MBCA All-Star Games & Banquet...
TORONTO – Canada Basketball is excited to announce a new event, “3x3 Canada Quest.” This initiative from FIBA and Canada Basketball will begin in June with three tour sites in Canada. The three sites are qualification events for the FIBA 3x3 World Tour Masters competition in New York City to be held August 18-19, 2012. Basketball Alberta and Basketball BC will share hosting duties in Edmonton, Alberta (June 9-10), while Ontario Basketball will host in Toronto, Ontario (July 6-8) and Quebec Basketball Federation will run the event in Montreal, Quebec (July 7-8). The winners in each of these sites will earn a berth and represent Canada in the FIBA 3x3 World Tour Masters in New York City. The 16 best teams from the Masters will then qualify for the FIBA 3x3 World Tour Final, which will be held in Miami, USA on September 23-24. 
Basketball Manitoba is pleased to launch a new initiative aimed to attract more young people into becoming a new basketball referee or coach. The 'Be a Ref' promotion is targeting young adults in the 18-25 age range to continue with the sport this April in a different capacity. With most people in this age range seeing their basketball involvement coming to end, we want to open another chapter with your love for the game of basketball! Basketball Manitoba, the MBCA, MABO, WMBA and MHSAA are offering free referee clinics to these people this April to make basketball a 'sport for life'. To register for the free clinics...
Check out today's collection of game scores from all levels of basketball in Manitoba...
Winnipeg Team Mayhem has announced that we will be 3 Summer camps. The dates, and times for the Summer Camps are...
Basketball Manitoba is pleased to announce the details on the 2012 Power Smart Manitoba Games basketball regional tryouts. The 2012 Manitoba Games will occur this July in Swan River, MB with a total of 8 regional teams for males and 8 regional teams for females created this spring at the 16U age level (born in 1996 or later). The regional teams will represent all areas of Manitoba including Central, Eastman, Interlake, Norman, Parkland, Westman and two teams from Winnipeg. The tryouts will occur in April and May at various locations and training will continue through the spring and summer to the Games from July July 16-18 for females and July 19-21 for males. Full details on the program and tryouts can be found at...Coaching Manitoba has announced that it will be taking applications for consideration for support under the Grey Cup Legacy Fund. The fund was established by the Grey Cup Festival Committee, with the surplus funds arising from the staging of the 1991 Grey Cup Game in Winnipeg. The fund promotes excellence in football and other sports in Manitoba through the development of coaching expertise. Deadline for applications is June 1, 2012. The activities supported by the Fund include...The Big Country Basketball Club (formerly JRB) has announced that it will be hsoting an opeb club basketball tournament on Aptil 27-29 in Winnipeg at both St. John's Ravenscourt and the new Lindenwoods Community Centre gyms. The tournament is open to girls teams in grades 3 and up to an open women's division. The youngest level (grades 3-4) will be played in the 3 on 3 format and include a boys division. For details and how to register...
University of Winnipeg Men’s Basketball head coach Mike Raimbault is pleased to announce the commitment of Kelvin Clippers stand out Kristjan Lamont to the Wesmen Men’s Basketball Program for the start of the upcoming season this September. The 6’6 forward averaged 15 points, nine rebounds and two blocks per game this past season and played a vital role in leading the Clippers to the AAAA Provincial semi finals last month. He was named a Provincial All-Star and was also recognized as a Graduating All-Star. His outstanding play at the 45th Annual Wesmen Classic earned him a spot on the Tournament All-Star team. Lamont was recognized this past season as both a CTV Sports Star of the Week and Manitoba High School Athletic Association Urban Athlete of the Week.
On Thursday, April 12, Basketball Manitoba hosted the 3rd Annual Club Basketball Summit. The meeting included 20 key stakeholders from the club basketball system including coordinators and coaches along with some Basketball Manitoba board members. The club system is playing an ever-increasing role in the development of basketball throughout the province. The goal of these summits is to improve communication and to help coordinate club activities so that all those involved have a positive experience and the game continues to grow and improve. Some very important discussion took place in an open and informal atmosphere. Some of the topics covered were...
The Manitoba Magic today released the schedules for its upcoming weekend Magic Invitational Spring Tournament. The event will run at the University of Winnipeg Duckworth Centre on April 21-22, 2012. The tournament features girls teams at the grades 7-12 range. To view the full tournament schedule and rules...
Coaching Manitoba and Sport Manitoba on Sunday announced the four finalists for Coach of the Year tied to its annual Coaching Manitoba Excellence Awards presented by Manitoba Lotteries. The program's aim is to recognize and celebrate the outstanding achievements and significant contributions coaches have made to their athletes and their sport through coaching. Two of the four recipients were basketball coaches including Don Thomson of Brandon, winner of the School based 'Peter Dick Award' and is currently coaching at Neelin High School plus is Basketball Manitoba's 17U Female Provincial Team Coach. Long time wheelchair basketball coach form Winnipeg, Bill Johnson was recognized with the high performance 'Peter Williamson Memorial Award'. Congratulations to Don, Bill and the other deserving recipients!
Providence College in Otterburne, MB have announced the details on its upcoming boys and girls summer basketball camps. The Junior High Camps will run July 9-13 and the Senior High to follow July 16-20. For details on to register online...
This past weekend, the University of Manitoba and the Junior Bison program hosted their annual club basketball tournament in Winnipeg. The club welcomed teams from within and out of province to come participate in an action packed weekend of competitive basketball. The 2012 event was a bigger year for entries from last year and was up 5 teams this year to 56 total teams. Each played in 7 different age brackets with more than 96 games played over the weekend. The club welcomed 7 out of town teams during the event, with entries from Regina, Saskatoon and Winkler. For a summary of the 7 different division winners and a link to a number of pictures taken...
Basketball Manitoba is pleased to launch a new initiative aimed toattract more young people into becoming a new basketball referee or
coach. The 'Be a Coach' promotion is targeting young adults in the 18-25
age range to continue with the sport this April in a different
capacity. With most people in this age range seeing their basketball
involvement coming to end, we want to open another chapter with your
love for the game of basketball! Basketball Manitoba, the MBCA, MABO,
WMBA and MHSAA are offering free coach clinics to these people this
April to make basketball a 'sport for life'. To register for the free
clinics...
Basketball Manitoba has launched a new events calendar which will attempt to include ALL significant basketball events occurring year round at all levels of the game in the province. The calendar currently features all Basketball Manitoba programs, events, deadlines, sanctioned tournaments and will include this fall all Manitoba CIS and MCAC game schedules among others. Members of the basketball community are welcome to submit their own key basketball events into the calendar, which can also be viewed using the Basketball Manitoba Scoreboard App on your moble device. The new calendar can also be 'subscribed' to your own personal calendar program including ones powered by Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook & Hotmail, Apple iCal, Mozilla Lighting, Yahoo among others. To view the new calendar and for instructions on how to subscribe to it...
Basketball Manitoba is pleased to offer its support behind the upcoming 'Walk so Kids Can Talk' special event to help raise needed funds so that young people here and across the country will continue to have access to Kids Help Phone’s free, professional phone and online counselling services 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Every day, Kids Help Phone’s professional counsellors hear from kids who are experiencing the cruelty of bullying, the loneliness of depression, the paralyzing fear of anxiety, or are feeling the pressures to succeed, compete, or conform. As one of the 40 communities across the country participating in the Walk so Kids Can Talk, Winnipeg will be hosting its walk on Sunday May 6 at the University of Winnipeg Duckworth Centre. How can you help?
Basketball Manitoba is pleased to announce that Kerri Kuzbyt of Winnipeg has been named a recent recipient of the Sport
Manitoba 'Women to Watch' athlete grant! Kerri was a member of the Manitoba Provincial Team program for the past 3 years and recently completed her high school career at Sisler High School. Kerri is off to the University of Winnipeg Wesmen program in the fall to play under coach Tanya McKay. Past basketball recipients of this award include Emily Potter, Brittany Wiebe, Danielle Baril, Adele Baril, Morgan Cross, Danielle DeGagne and Krystal Schouten.
BRANDON, MB– Much of Novell Thomas’ life has revolved around the game of basketball. Thomas is looking to continue that trend as he begins the next chapter in his life as a university basketball coach after taking over the reins of Brandon University’s women’s basketball program.Thomas’ list of accomplishments as a player is lengthy, and now he is looking to have similar success as a coach, but his first goal is to encourage the student-athletes playing for him.
“The development and graduation of my student-athletes is a primary focus,” says Thomas. “It’s my responsibility to give the student-athletes the tools needed to be successful academically, on the basketball court and in the community.”
Basketball Manitoba is pleased to announce that Michele Hynes of Winnipeg has been awarded one of two of the Canada Games Coaching Apprenticeship Project Scholarships! The program will officially add Michele to the coaching roster of the 17U Female Provincial Basketball Team program and connect her with the existing coaching staff in Don Thomson, Coleen Dufresne and Randy Kusano. She will be given access to a number of professional development and coach development opportunities heading into the 2013 Canada Games in Sherbrooke, Quebec. The scholarship is a cost shared program made possible through the partnership of the Canada Games Council, Sport Canada, Coaching Association of Canada, Coaching Manitoba and the 2013 Canada Summer Games Host Society. Read Michele's bio at...
Westdale School in partnership with Basketball Manitoba and MABO will be hosting a Junior Officials Development Program clinic on Saturday April 21, 2012 The clinic runs from 8:45 am - 3:30 pm at the school located at 6720 Betsworth Ave in west Winnipeg. People completing this course will be able to work in the WMBA as an official immediately. Cost to attend is $50. For more information and to register...
Brandon University Bobcats women’s basketball coach Novell Thomas will be hosting an open camp for female basketball players on April 14 from 9:30 am – 12:00 pm in the BU Gymnasium. The camp will be an open session with basketball games and skill assessment for current high school and college female basketball players who are interested in playing at the university level.
The Spence Neighbourhood Association (SNA) is a community-based organization in Winnipeg that advocates for inner-city kids. With the assistance of True Sport, the SNA has transformed its operations from two basketball teams in 2008 – to nine basketball teams and six soccer teams in 2010. Over 500 newcomer and inner-city youth have participated in the program during that three-year span.Chino Argueta, sports coordinator at the SNA, speaks about the challenges of creating and sustaining a grassroots community program. “The path is not easy,” he says. “When we first started with basketball, it took many meetings for our club to even be recognized as part of the Winnipeg Minor Basketball Association.”
Coaching with a Tablet? iPad, Playbook, Android? Technology is becoming more and more a reality in coaching. Long gone are the days where technology was just watching recoded game footage for a tactical advantage. Technology is now used to monitor training intensity, volume, rest, evaluation, skill analysis, and much more. As the technology has evolved so has its portability. Tablets now let you record an athlete performing a specific skill, break down that skill and replay it for your athlete by the time they get out of the pool and walk towards you. Instant information. Coaching Manitoba is offering a FREE coaching seminar on April 10...
The MHSAA has announced that it will be inducting a number of new individuals and teams into the Manitoba High School Sports Hall of Fame on Saturday April 21st, 2012. Athletes include Rick Watts who played at Dakota Collegiate basketball, Nick Papadakis of Daniel McIntyre Collegiate who excelled in basketball and Lynda Chorley (Kidd) of Hamiota Collegiate who was an outstanding basketball player. Builders include former MHSAA President and Carman Collegiate Principal Frank McKinnon, Gladwyn Scott who has been a Superintendent in the Interlake and South West Manitoba and Audrey Jones who was at Tec Voc High School and was one of the first Presidents of the MHSAA. The Hapnot Collegiate Kopper Kweens Basketball team from the early 50’s is the team to be inducted they won a stream of seven (7) Provincial High School Championships in the early 50’s. Tickets for the induction luncheon are available for $15.00 by contacting the MHSAA Office at...
The Winnipeg Minor Basketball Association with the support of Basketball Manitoba announced today that it will be piloting a new basketball game structure for the 8 Year Old Boys Division in the spring of 2012. All games at this level will now be played in a '3 on 3 half court' setting, different from the traditional 5 on 5 full court game. The 3 on 3 model encourages a more age appropriate fundamental skill development of players based on Long Term Athlete Development concepts. Basketball's international governing body (FIBA) and Canada Basketball are recommending that all basketball played at the age 9 and under level use the 3 on 3 half court model. This new modification will be expanded through the WMBA to ages 9 and under over the coming year. So why 3 on 3?
Basketball Manitoba today announced that effective April 1, 2012, all regulation basketball rims will be returned to the original 'peach basket' style of hoop. The change comes due to a world-wide steel shortage, the primary material used in basketball rim construction. "It's a change we were wanting to avoid but the problem has become epidemic and was now affecting the growth of basketball at all levels", explained Basketball Manitoba Executive Director, Adam Wedlake. He added, "This will affect all levels of play immediately from the pros, university and below including the NCAA national championship scheduled for Monday night." To fill the supply of basketball rims during this worldwide steel epidemic, a change in materials used was the only solution. The recommendation from the special task force to return to the original style of basketball hoop was unanimous. "If this style of hoop was good for our sport's founder, Dr. Naismith, then its good enough for us!", exclaimed Basketball Manitoba Technical Director, Dan Becker, adding "We welcome this change and its a great green solution and very retro in style!". It is expected that all basketball facilities in Manitoba change to this new style immediately, ready for the 2012-13 basketball season. The new 'PB3000' basketball hoops will be available from Home Run Sports in the coming week. For more on this new equipment requirement...
Sample of the new Spalding PB3000
Excerpt from the new basketball rulebook:
Art. 3 The rim and mesh shall be constructed of 100% natural wood material with the top opening being 18 inched in diameter. The basket shall be mounted onto a fan or rectangle shaped backboard using 'break away' (pressure release) with encased torsion springs. All basketball facilities shall also provide tweezers to remove any slivers received whilst dunking the basketball.
This change came from consulting firm Yad, Sloof and Lirpa who made the new basket recommendation.
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