Pivot City Basketball Club

Pivot City joins forces with Rex Gorell Ford

We are excited to announce that Rex Gorell Ford have joined forces with Pivot City to sponsor our Aussie Hoops program for the next two years!

With Ford coming on board as a major sponsor for the national Aussie Hoops brand, we are excited to have them join us at a local level and encourage anyone that is looking to purchase their next vehicle to make it a Ford with the team at Rex Gorell Geelong.

Read More Here: https://pivotcitybasketball.com.au/2023/12/20/ford-signs-on-as-aussie-hoops-sponsor/

Our Under 12 and 14 girls were lucky enough to have a Bendigo Spirit duo take them through their paces on Thursday night before they battled the Adelaide Lightning at the Geelong Arena on Friday night.

We would like to thank Alicia and Ella along with the Spirit for being a part of our club for the evening!

Buy Our Own Stadium - Pivot City has been around for 75 years and time to have our own home!

Have you been collecting bottles and are not sure what to do with them? Pivot City has joined the Victorian Container Deposit Scheme to raise funds to help us secure our own stadium.

When you deposit your bottles and cans simply select Pivot City in the donation section and the money will go towards funding our future!

Go Pivot!

📢 ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

It was the final training of 2023 at Geelong Sports Hub on Sunday afternoon. It was great to see so many smiling faces getting after it across 4 packed courts.

Seeing so many of our wonderful coaches passing on their knowledge to the next generation of Geelong Basketball stars is truly special.

We wish everyone the best of the luck for the final round of 2023 before a well deserved break to recharge the batteries for 2024 hits.

Go Pivot!

It was a hot one last Friday with Max Zalakos and a couple of our Aussie Hoopers! With only a few sessions left before the Christmas Break we hope to see on court before we take a break until 2024!

Reminder that no training today as the Geelong United Tournament is using GSH. Training back to normal Sunday 12th Nov

We would like to wish all Pivot City Athletes involved in the 2023/4 VJBL season the best of luck as this years pre-season tournament gets underway in less than 24 hours time!

📣 KORR KORR NGITJI 📣

The biggest weekend on the GUB Calendar is upon us!

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A great photo of our Summer under 14 boys Champ team from earlier this week!

We love to see our teams out and about each week. We would love to see your team pics throughout this summer season! Send through a photo or 3 and your age group to our page to get featured!

Go Pivot!

Our Dandy family perpetual trophy award winner this year is Shayna Brown who has been apart of the club in various roles since 2014. Thank you for all your time and effort into the club.

Ps this was written on behalf of Craig by myself 😂 not the greatest on social media old Craig.

Due to number of boys that turned up to training on Sunday, we have attained extended access to Geelong Sports Hub. Under 16 and 18 boys will train 630 – 730pm effective from this coming Sunday 15th Oct.

A few photos of our first time training as a club on a Sunday at Geelong Sports Hub. 200+ players and 20 odd coaches. Huge success, great energy and thanks to our Director of Basketball Performance Jason Reardon for putting the program together and getting amongst it with the various age groups. See you all next Sunday

Aussie Hoops is back for term 4. NBL1 player Cohen Blythe will be the Head Coach of the progam. It starts 5PM Friday 13th Oct and will run for 9 weeks until 8th Dec. Venue is AWA stadium on Crows road, Belmont. Please register via link below. We look forward to creating future Pivotonian stars.
https://www.playhq.com/basketball-victoria/register/758fec

Congratulations to the Pivot players achieving success in being selected as Victoria's best country athletes being named to compete in the Southern Cross Challenge (SCC) and Australian Country Junior Basketball Cup (ACJBC). Athletes have also been selected to participate in Basketball Victoria's State Development Program (SDP), after showing their talent from recent tryouts.
SCC
Lou Dumbell, Hendrix Van den Ham, Malakai Walker & Eli Whiteford

ACJBC
U14 Boys – Rafael Fryer,
U16 Girls – Willow Smith

SDP
Miley Dawkins, Will Smith & Keegan McCook

Big night at Geelong United presentations with Pivot City and its players taking out a swag of awards as well as collecting the Men's Championship premiership trophy for the 14th time. Well done to Eve Braslis MVP Women Champs and Coaches Award NBL1, Max Kos MVP Men's Champs, Marach Marach MVP Big V Men Youth League, Casadhe Green MVP Big V Women Youth League and Vanessa Marsh Players' Player Big V Women Youth League,

The Pivot Pistons Grade 3/4 finished their Winter season off with a win, playing off for 3rd against the Blades. Scores level with a minute on the clock, the boys managed to score the last 2 points with Jaseyn Po***ck to take the win. Well done boys

Our under 10 girls minus a couple away with Cam their coach. Well done on the round robin and a successful season.

18BC premiers again. What a team and coach combination. Since the boys have been under Chad's tutelage they have won every under 16 and 18 championship title.

Grand Final MVP Marach meets an admirer at post game celebrations last night. Billy just joined Pivot was keen to let the Premiership Men's team know he was excited to be part of a club with a long and successful history. We hope that he can follow in Marach's footsteps and win a men's championship title.

Well that was a successful GF Week:
Premiers Men Champs, 18BC, 16BD1 Pistons, 14BD7 Clippers & 12BD4 Pistons
Runners Up Women Champs, 14BC, 12BD4 Panthers
Thanks for sending in the photos below. Go Pivot

A big win to cap off an undefeated season for our Pivot City Championship Men!

MEN'S WINTER CHAMPIONSHIP | Grand Final Wrap

Presented by RL Signs Geelong

Pivot City Basketball Club
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Hi Pivotonians, congratulations to our teams that made their Grand Final. 25% of our teams made the GF including Men & Women Champs, 18BC, 16BD1, 14BC, 14BD7 and both our teams in 12BD4. Please come along and support our Men playing 640pm and Women (defending their title) 820pm this Tuesday at the Arena as they drive hard towards premierships. Good luck to all our teams in Grand Finals, don't take a backward step.🏀🏆

Hi Pivotonians, don't forget Presentation day is this Sunday 1pm at Hoopcity. Please do not park in front of Classic Fireplaces & BBQs next door. You must park on Esseington st or rear of Hoop City. The Manager of Hoopcity said the retailer gets very upset if their parks are taken. See you Sunday

2023 Community Competition Winter Finals Begin!

Goodluck to all of our Pivot City teams who will begin their finals campaign this week!

With two big weeks of action and a chance a glory, we cannot wait to see our teams taking out glory in their own style!

Please send any team photos through win or lose as we would love to share them with our Pivot family!

Goodluck and Go Pivot!

Congratulations to Marach Marach on taking home the YL1M DPOY award!

It was a busy night at Geelong College a few weeks back with both our Pivot City Academy and training taking over both courts!

It's great to see our athletes striving to better themselves at every opportunity they get!

G'day Pivotonians

PRESENTATION DAY REMINDER

After the enormous success of the year, we are yet again holding the 2023 Presentation Day/AGM at Hoop City on Sunday 10th September.

We will start at 1.00 and go through to 3.00.

Activities and food for ALL kids together with presentations and AGM. Fun day planned.

Go Pivot

There is still time to join us for Aussie Hoops in term 3! Training occurs every Friday at AWA Alliance Bank Stadium and is run by NBL1 Star Ella! Who is also the spearhead of our Championship Women's team.

Why not come and try with her and the team today!

Aussie Hoops session with the ever so popular Ella. Our first term of Aussie Hoops nearly coming to an end, if you want to join in next term keep a look out on our socials for term 4 registration. ⛹️⛹️‍♀️

Pivot City Academy

Our Pivot City Academy is well underway for term 3. Coach Jase has been on court each Thursday putting our juniors through their paces, and teaching them the ins and outs of the game.

We are grateful to have such a high calibre player and coach take on the task of creating such well rounded athletes and cannot wait to see the progress of this program for the years to come!

Pivotonians there is a DJ Vasiljevic clinic on this Saturday 26th August in Ocean Grove with limited spots available. Below is the link and sessions still available so book now to avoid disappointment.

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1064370

* 12:00pm to 1:30pm - U12 Mixed **2 SPOTS LEFT**
* 2pm to 3:30pm - U14 Mixed **12 SPOTS LEFT**
* 3:45pm to 5:15pm - U14 Mixed **2 SPOTS LEFT**
* 5:30pm to 7:00pm - U16/U18 Mixed **11 SPOTS LEFT**

Pivot's Aussie Hoops program has doubled in participants since it started 4 weeks ago! Reminder to those already participating and anyone thinking of attending that the venue has moved to Try Boys Stadium at 501 Ryrie St, East Geelong, this Friday 5pm 25th August, 2023. The program will remain at this venue for rest of Term 3. The move is due to Geelong United activities at AWA. New participants are welcome to join for rest of Term 3. Enquiries via [email protected]

Harcourts Stays on!

Our singlet sponsor Harcourts has been secured for another year. Anyone needing to sell their property in the northern suburbs or Greater Geelong, please support Joe Grgic & Helena Fantela, a long-term Pivot family & our longest-standing Pivot sponsor.

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We would also like to congratulate Tyler Erard and Raini Matthew’s who have been nominated for All Star 5/MVP and DPOY respectively.

Two mainstays in our championship sides for a number of years now it is great to see both athletes be recognised with award nominations.

We wish them the best of luck and hope they can bring home a trophy or two!

Congratulations to Marach Marach, with award season on the horizon the Pivot City product is up for both DPOY and All Star 5/MVP. We wish Marach the best of luck in the awards race comping up later in the month!

Aussie Hoops continues this Friday night with Ella Tofaeono at AWA Alliance Bank Stadium!

If you haven't registered yet there is still plenty of time to do so, we cannot wait to see you on court soon!

Register here: https://www.playhq.com/basketball-victoria/register/a65d14?fbclid=IwAR1QvEa89CISh1M9Lks1sLEi8Inxod-a_PoI4n2MzBwIe6gtHeZCugmhdDk

Good evening Pivotonians!

Summer season is quickly sneaking up and we need to start working out teams.

Please complete the form (link below) to notify us if you are wanting to play or have decided to not play.

Form needs to be completed by this Fri 11th Aug.

We will not be allocating players to teams unless the form is completed.

There are no tryouts for Summer season.

If you have friends who want to play and are not on TeamApp, please copy the link and send it to them. New and old returning players welcome!

https://forms.gle/2hG3F1FnYES7tgFM8

Go Pivot!

Pivot City Summer 2023/24 - Pre Registration This form is for ALL players notifying their intentions to play Summer 2023/24 season. Only players who have submitted this form by Fri 11th August will be placed in a team. There are NO tryouts for Summer season. You MUST submit this form to be placed in a team. We ask those who are not returning t...

It's always good to see smiles on the court while working hard! Check out some of our junior boys putting in work with Coach Craig at Geelong College.

With finals right around the corner, it's always great to see our players competing to be their best, even when it isn't game day!

Geelong United Basketball 2024 VJBL try outs are right around the corner, if you’re looking to hone some skills and are thinking about taking the plunge into the VJBL pool, why not sign up for the Next Step Program!

🏀NEXT STEP PROGRAM🏀

Want to know more about how you can elevate your game with the help of Geelong United Basketball?

Our Next Step program is not too far away.

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Marach Marach continues to impress as he collects a very well deserved player of the month of July in Big V 2023!