What’s On – July 2025 - Canterbury Basketball Canterbury Basketball

Canterbury Basketball is running the following programmes and events in July 2025

This Month sees us cross the halfway point in our winter club competitions. You can easily click on any of the links below to find out more, or you can see everything in one place on our Events Calendar.

Cowles Primary School Competitions– Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Club Basketball Competitions – our Aquapro Midweek, and weekend club competitions are all in full effect
Flagship High School Competitions – NZCT Grocott Trophy, NZCT Whelan Trophy and NZCT Thomson Trophy competitions head into the final stretch

BNZ Kiwi Hoops at Cowles – Mondays Hoops 3:45-4:30 5-10 Year olds, 4:40 – 5:25 10-15 Year olds.
Skills Accelerator Program– Will run in conjunction with second hoops session.

The U18 National Tournament will be hosted by BBNZ and CBA June 30th – July 3rd Cowles Stadium and Shirley Avonside High School.
- Canterbury have 4 teams entered.
All U16 and U19 Mainlands teams will resume their programmes in build up for the Mainlands tournament July 5-7th at Selwyn Sports Center.
- U16 Boys 1030am – Noon Sundays @ Hillmorton
- U19 Boys 130pm – 3pm Sundays @ Hillmorton
- U16 and U19 Girls 930 – 11am @ Middleton Grange

- The Game Ready activation (warm up) will be rolled out across all schools and clubs in preparation for the start of the 2025 high school and club season.
  - All clubs and most schools have a designated leader who has been trained in the new warmup, however video and written materials on the programme can be found here.
  - Video content will also be loaded onto CoachMate this month.
- With the addition of Game Ready programme and other new content, the CoachMate app continue to go from strength to strength. If you haven’t downloaded it yet, DOWNLOAD IT NOW!
- Also watch our website for information on our new U14 Coach Development Programme for High School Coaches wanting to learn to coach within our U14 programme August/September.

Girls Got Game continues to run in schools throughout the year. Kura can get in touch with: ty@canterbury.basketball to nominate themselves for these free sessions!

Aquapro Inclusion League had a great start in term 2! We are continuing in Term 3 and have space available. If interested in joining in Term 3; please get in touch with: ty@canterbury.basketball
Walking Basketball has wrapped up for Term 2. We are looking for more teams and players for Term 3 on Thursday evenings at Cowles. If keen to get on court email: ty@canterbury.basketball

Level Zero Courses and Level One Workshops are being scheduled in conjunction with schools and clubs. Contact scott@canterbury.basketball to be notified of the next courses coming up
Sideline development for new and junior referees throughout the winter club ball season.

You can see our full calendar of events here, and our Harmonised Calendar shows you an overview of the year