Tara Murray
Free basketball clinics are being held in Donnybrook as a push to start a new basketball club in the area continues.
With a number of new families moving into the area, Craigieburn Basketball Association is hoping to set up a new club in the area.
Colin Dowling is the administrator that is currently running the clinics and helping to set up a new club.
It will be the third club that he’s helped establish in recent years with the amount of growth in Hume.
“We were able to run some clinics last year after receiving a grant from Dennis Family Homes community grants,” he said.
“We had about 70 families interested but there was a bit of lag in time between before we were able to put the clinics on.
“We had about 10-12 players turn up to the first clinic and it was like that for most of the clinics.
“We can’t form a team, let alone get a club formed.”
Dowling said the aim was to form a new club to participate in the winter season at Craigieburn Basketball Association, which will start in April or May.
He said they were looking at trying to get under-8s, under-10s, under-12s, under-14s and under-16s.
“We need to have a presence in the community,” he said. “Through putting on these free clinics hopefully we will grow numbers and get at least 30-40 players at each clinic.”
Dowling said as well as getting players he was trying to set up a committee that would run the club.
He said he had been speaking with the Donnybrook Football Netball Club about aligning the two clubs together.
The free clinics run on Saturdays at 10.30am at Donnybrook Primary School starting February 3. They will continue until the Craigieburn winter session kicks off.
Details: donnybrookclinicseoi@gmail.com or 0419 517 713
