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Coaches

Dedication. Expertise. Passion.

Behind every great Club, is a team of amazing coaches who dedicate their time and passion to training the next generation of Giants Basketballers

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Coach Keiths advice to players - Enjoy playing the game for as long as you can, because you will miss it when you can't. Its not about winning at all costs, its how you play the game.

This is solid advice from someone who played for 50 years.

Keith Buxton

No one has more Giants spirit than Keith! He has coached over230 Giants teams since 1992 from Juniors through to Seniors. That includes leading 67 teams into Finals and winning 37 of them.

Keith often coaches multiple teams (up to 8 per season!) and hopes to inspire more coaches to come up through the ranks.

Keith is always there if any coaches need his advice. He takes great pride in watching all our coaches in action and seeing the improvement of the teams during the season.

Some words of wisdom from Coach Wombat: Play hard, train hard and always have fun, but most of all, be good to your mother.

Dean Burke (Wombat)

Wombat has been coaching with Giants for 1 year but has played across Australia, as well as coached, including at a National level.

Wombat's motivation for coaching is to see players get better and grow, and a highlight has been to see his own boys get involved in the sport.

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Coach Fiona's advice for players: Basketball is a competitive sport, sometimes you win and sometimes it’s just not your day.

Game time each week is only a small part of playing if you want to be good - put the hard yards into your training and perfecting your skills.

Fiona Burfield

Fiona has been coaching at Giants for several seasons, while first at the request of her daughter - Fiona's competitive nature has shone through and she enjoys being able to pass on some of her life experiences, to help support her players to become successful young women, whatever it is they choose to do.

Fiona draws her inspiration from the players, she wants to see them be successful, which doesn’t always mean winning. Winning is great, but the highlight is when they play as a team- win or lose as long as they are unified.

Juniors Coaches

Role Models. Fun. Leadership

Complementing our Coaches are a team of Junior Coaches. These Junior Coaches support our up and coming players - teaching them basketball 101, mentoring them through team work and having a good dose of fun along the way.

Jayden's advice for future Junior Coaches: Coaching is challenging, but extremely rewarding. I have grown as a person and as a player and would encourage anyone who has an interest to give it a go. I am looking forward to coaching my next season.

Junior Coach

Jayden

JC Jayden has playing basketball for 3 years and started in U12.
Jayden has just finished coaching his first season and under his guidance - his U10B4 team made it through to the grand final! How many first time coaches lead a team to the grand final.

Jayden signed up to be a Junior Coach as he enjoys helping kids improve and develop their skills. In addition, he wanted to develop his own leadership skills. He says the best part of coaching is watching the kids develop friendships and improve individually and as a team.

Jayden is a Dallas Mavericks fan and draws his inspiration for playing from Kobe Bryant, while his NBA coaching inspiration is Pat Riley, who was prominent in the 1980’s. Jayden strives to continuing growing his skills as a player and a coach by learning from his own coaches.

Jaheim's advice for our players: Give it a go, be the loudest person on the court. No matter the score, have fun and keep encouraging your team.

Junior Coach

Jaheim

Junior Coach Jaheim started playing basketball in 2020, he made the U16 Townsville Rep team in 2021 and started coaching in 2022. Basketball fever can escalate quickly!

Jaheim' cue to begin coaching was when his little sister started playing and he coached her U10 team. Giving back to his Club then furthered his motivation, and Jaheim is often the first one with his hand up to fill in for a coach, or even spend part of his school holidays running a basketball clinic for a local OSCH.

Jaheim was inspired by his first coach and mentor, Joel, and hopes to set the same example and role model for the players he coaches. And let me tell you, he definitely does that!

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Giants Coaches Leaderboard

We are club rich in history and here is a snippet of the grand finals that Giants Coaches have led our teams into since the Clubs founding.

We are proud and thankful to our volunteer coaches who sign up, turn up and give it their all.

Full leaderboard can be found here

Coaches

Juniors Coaches

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Giants Coaches Leaderboard

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