Keysborough Cougars
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The Keysborough Cougars Basketball Association had its inaugural year in 2004 after formerly being known as the Springvale Basketball Association. The cougars are affiliated with Basketball Victoria
From an idea, to the reality and the dream come true for inaugural club president Nathan Vogt who started the club from scratch, and brought together its first set of teams and the club’s committee members.
The Keysborough Cougars bring representative basketball to the local community. Their great spread of junior teams starting from Under 12’s to the many feet taller senior men’s and women’s teams is something the whole community can support and get involved with this year, and for many years to come.
The club only looked to set out with one team in 2004, however, after plenty of excitement about the new club, the Cougars entered 8 teams. In 2005, it has grown to 13 teams. This growth continued in 2006 with the Cougars being accepted as the 44th club in the Big V on Saturday 12th November, with the Keysborough Cougars receiving on overwhelming vote of confidence from league members.
The Cougars junior teams play their home games at Heatherhill Secondary College in Keysborough on Friday evenings. The Cougars senior teams play which play in both the MMBL and Big V leagues. The Clubs administration office is based at Springers Leisure Centre
The club also runs its junior development program called the “Cougars Cubs” to develop junior basketballers in the local community on Saturday mornings.
The clubs aim for the future is to see the Cougars moving forward and developing into a great and established basketball association to challenge established basketball associations in the area. This will come through more teams, more success, and more development and growth of basketball into schools and the local community.
