Knox Basketball Inc
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Knox Basketball was established in the early 1970’s to provide youth from the City of Knox with a sporting and social infrastructure to develop and promote personal, team and social skills in a sporting environment. Founded by Alf Stevens, Alice Jago and Heather Kemp it began as an after school competition at the Mossfield Avenue Facility, Ferntree Gully in 1974. In 1980 it’s headquarters moved to the 3 court facility in Park Crescent at Boronia which was expanded to six courts in 1989.
Regarded as one of the foremost sporting associations in the country, at the end of 2006, it ran competitions containing more than 1,000 teams with around 8,000 participants on a weekly basis.
The representative arm of the Association is the Knox Raiders with 38 junior teams competing in the Victorian Junior Basketball League (VJBL), a men and womens team in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), men and womens team in the (Big V), and a team in the Womens National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL).
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