Waiau Pa Clarks Beach "Tide" Basketball was started in 2016 as a non-profit, community initiative for the sole goal to get kids in our area playing basketball. Our aim is to:
- Encourage participation - Players, Coaches, Managers and Parents.
- Grow Community Participation and support.
- Help our young people become great sportspeople, great students
and rangatira (leaders) in their community.
- Create sporting pathways beyond the club to other sporting and
educational opportunities.
GOALS
- To grow basketball into an all year round alternative in the community.
- To increase access to facilities both indoor and outdoor in the Waiau
Pa/Clarks Beach community.
- To affiliate with other clubs and help grow competition, better
coaching and more opportunities for our players to advance to the
next level.
- Grow a minimum of one team in each grade up to 7/8 by 2019,
- Grow pathways into intermediate and high school basketball by
building strong relationships with administrators and coaches in the
Franklin and Auckland region.