Summer Season Award Winners

	Boys' Awards		Girls' Awards
U8/1	Most Valuable Player: Edward Phillips	Most Improved: Ben Corboy	Most improved: Elizabeth Bonett	Most Valuable Player: Mia Spark
U8/2	Most Determined: Jack Desmier	Coaches Award:Anthony Stewart
U10/1	Most Determined:James Guley	Coaches Award:Curtis Hopkins	Most Valuable Player: Sian Gillam	Most Improved:Ella Madigan
U10/2	Most Valuable Player:Danny Minz	Coaches Award:Ben Barry	Most Improved:Laura Nelson	Best Team Player:Lucinda Jeffrey
U10/3	Most Determined:Bailey Gay	Most Determined:Liam Hapke	Most Valuable Player:Estelle Warren	Most Improved: Lucy Greenwood
U10/4	Coaches Award for Team Player:William Kruyt	Coaches Award for Team Player:Harrison Kruyt
U10/5	Coaches Award:Taden Vitacca	Coaches Award:Josh Norris
U10/6	Most Improved:Charlie Buntine	Most Determined:Andy Moorehead
U10/7	Most Valuable Player:Jack Alexander	Most Improved:Jack Fitzsimmons
U12/1	Most Valuable Player:Peter Wilson	Coaches Award:Mark Pittonet	Most Valuable Player:Sarah Davis	Valued Team Player: Sarah Clark
U12/2	Most Determined:James D'Apolito	Coaches Award:Jonte Antonino	Most Valuable Player: Jacqueline Brown	Most Consistent:Phoebe Stewart
U12/3	Coaches Award:James Corboy	Most Determined:Nicholas Taylor	Most Determined: Jalena Pangbourne	Most Consistent:Taylah Snell
U12/4	Most Determined:James Thomson	Coaches Award:Kyle Eliott
U12/5	Best Defensive Player:Callum Du Ve	Most Determined Player:Christopher McNeil
U12/6	Most Determined:Matthew King	Coaches Award:Dale Christie
U14/1	Most Valuable Player:Dean Mendes	Most Courageous:Jacob Kenyon	Coaches Award:Adriana Piva	Most Improved: Hannah Bevis
U14/2	Coaches Award:John Muston	Best Off the Boards:Ashwin Ravindran	Coaches Award: Jasmine Eliott	Most Determined:Justine Wilson
U14/3	Coaches Award:James Mc Gillvray	Most Determined: Matthew D'Apolito
U14.4	Coaches Award:Patrick O'Dwyer	Coaches Award: Nathan Clements
U14/5	Coaches Award:Joshua Snell	Coaches Award:Luke Mallaby
U14/6	Most Improved:Andrew Hogdson	Most Consistent:Jack Whiffin
U16/1	Coaches Award:Matthew Barr	Coaches Award:Ben Thorn	Most Determined:Shaylee Taylor	Most Improved: Alexandra Gammilonghi
U16/2	Best All Rounder:Sean O'Dwyer	Left Hand Award:Jaic Wright	Most Valuable Player:Eleanor Caldwell	Most Determined: Bridget King
U16/3			Most Determined: Helen Pape	Most Valuable Player: Brittany Duncan
U18/1	Coaches Award:Simon Perham	Coaches Award: James Cope	Coaches Award: Hayley Ockenden	Coaches Award: Cara Jeffers
U18/2	Best Team Player: Ben Collins	Most Determined:Brendan Shelley	Coaches Award: Alana Eliott	Coaches Award: Cassie Hodgson

Summer Season Grand Final Winners

U8/1 GIRLS Coach: Sally-Anne Pitt Coach: Michael Pitt Elizabeth Bonnett Molly Evans Maddison Hooper Jamee Morrison Kaylah Pangbourne Stephanie Pitt Claudia Piva Mia Spark Isabelle Thom

U14/1 GIRLS (B2) Coach: Lawrence Groves Hannah Bevis Amy Clifford Emily Freemantle Nikola Jackson Anthea Mc Gurty Christine Pape Adriana Piva Maddison Reidy

U18/1 (A) Alex Doddridge Rachel Gill Chantelle Gustus Cara Jeffers Hayley Ockenden Madi Taylor Amy Taylor Jessica Wakeham

National Junior Classic Stars 

The National Junior Classic brought together some of the best junior basketball teams from Victoria, NSW, SA and the ACT over the Queen's Birthday weekend. Koonung players picked up one Gold medal, and five Silver medals, while one of our coaches picked up a silver medal of his own.

Victoria Bodo (U11 KN1 Girls) represented the Bulleen Boomers in the U12 girls. Bulleen went in ranked number 8 in Victoria yet still qualified for the National Final against Diamond Valley Eagles and went on to win the final and take home the National Title! Congratulations to Victoria who played a major role within the team. 

Melanie Bateman (U9 KN1 Girls) representing the Nunawading Spectres, has already played in two Classics, an amazing achievement for someone of her age. While her team finished 11th, she can still be proud of playing in a team that qualified for this elite tournament. Well done Mel - with 2 years of U12s to go, you still have plenty of time to bring home the National Title!

Madison Taylor (U17 KN1 Girls) represented the Nunawading Spectres in the U18 age group - they reached the final but unfortunately fell short against Dandenong by 9 points. Congratulations Madison on your silver medal!

Tom Hillman, Marc Pittonet, Peter Wilson and Liam Kenyon (pictured with their coach Greg Jeffers) represented the top ranked Bulleen Boomers U12 Boys team. After dealing comfortably with Broadmeadows by 30 points, South Australian team Norwood by 49 points and Nunawading Spectres by 35, they went into the finals with confidence. Their quarter final was against Eltham - after a brilliant start they found the going thereafter a bit tougher but still managed to scrape over the line by 7 points. They then overcame Dandenong in the semi-final by a comfortable 22 points, putting them into the National Classic final on Monday against Knox Raiders. Both Knox and Bulleen had dominated the tournament up until that point - and as might be expected the Final was an epic arm wrestle. The game was close the whole way, and Knox ended up in front by 2 points at the final buzzer.

Congratulations to all our players who performed at this level, in what is viewed as the National Championships by many. One gold and 5 silver is a terrific performance.  

Koonung's Princess of the Court 

Basketball Victoria today announced Koonung’s Jemma Hillman as ‘Princess of the Court’ for the first fortnight in May 2007.

Jemma is in her first season of A Grade in Under 9’s and is already becoming a very strong player. Jemma is 8 years old and in Grade 3 at Mont Albert Primary School. She has been playing basketball for 2 years - she began playing basketball because she grew up watching her big brother Tom play and couldn’t wait to join in. Tom still plays basketball and Jemma’s dad also plays.

Jemma is a great defender and always listens to her coach; she has an exceptional shooting technique and always tries her best. She is becoming known for being a strong player who can score regularly and play defence beyond her years and she always plays in a sportsmanlike manner.

“I nominated Jemma for the ‘Princess of the Court’ Award because over the last 6 months she has developed her basic basketball skills to a high level which demonstrates the improvements made to the Koonung Basketball Club over this period.” said Greg Jeffers, Head Coach at Koonung.

The ‘Princess of the Court’ is an initiative of Basketball Victoria’s Women in Basketball program. Supported by the State Government, the program aims to increase female participation in all aspects of the sport of basketball. Basketball Victoria selects ‘Princess of the Court’ winners based not just on performance, but also other qualities which make them an asset to the sport.

“Congratulations to Jemma on winning the ‘Princess of the Court’ award for the first fortnight in May. We wish her all the best for her future in the sport of basketball,” said Wayne Bird, Chief Executive Officer or Basketball Victoria. Jemma will be presented with a 12 Panel Molten GF6 Basketball and a certificate.