Happy New Year and Gong Hei Fatt Choi

Dear members,

Happy New Year and Gong Hei Fatt Choi! Wishing you all a happy and prosperous year of the Dragon in 2012!

Welcome back to ACBA for another year of great basketball and events. I know that many of you have been keen to resume your “battles” on the Auburn hardcourt and practicing hard in our offseason to maintain your games.

Just a short note to provide you all with some highlights from the first six half of the year.

• The first tournament of the year is the Healthpac Cup which commences on 29 January 2012 and will take us through to May 2012. We are pleased to also introduce the Women’s division to this tournament.
• Following the Healthpac Cup, the marquee tournament of each year, the Hong Kong Dim Sim Cup will be back for its 14th year.
• For all of you with young children, siblings or relatives, who are interested in learning how to play the game of basketball, our very successful Junior Development Programme is back and this time for a FULL YEAR! For more details please email our Junior Development Coordinator, Emma Bramston on emma@acba.com.au.
• Details for open trails for the ACBA Representative Programmes will soon be announced. This year, we will be selecting a squad 30 from which the ACBA Dragons and Tigers team will finally be chosen to tour South East Asia at the end of the year.

And finally, I welcome Sone Lovan and Alvin Reyes as two new members to our Board. Sone has been a member with ACBA for over 10 years and was a member of the ACBA Dragons. Alvin is the captain of Cripples which competes in Division 3 of ACBA. Both Sone and Alvin will be focused on assisting Craig Jacques with our senior development program.

Yours faithfully

Boon Tan
Chief Executive Officer