Geelong United Basketball (GUB) would like to say Thank You to our TOD program.
Our Referees and Scoretable officials have had a very busy and successful year.
We have received the 2024 Victorian Country Commission’s Large Association Referee Program Award.
With an increase of referees to over 400 we were able to make 36,000+ appointments for 2024.
The percentage of females has significantly increased now to 22%, which put us in a position to appoint only females to all 6 courts at Beyond Bank Stadium on a Saturday morning.
As well as running several Senior Championship games with all 3 referees being females. We would like to thank everyone who signed up to join our green shirt trainee program, and a special thanks to the mature beginner referees who also started this year.
We had several of our referees invited to referee and referee coach at all divisions of the Basketball Victorias Country Championships and Country Jamboree.
INDIVIDUAL ACHIEVEMENTS FOR 2024:
- Justine Moller for receiving the GUB Scoretable official of the year, NBL1 Scoretable Official of the year
- Emily Todorov on officiating her 100th NBL1 game
- Mitch Lay was invited to the NBL1 RDP, selected to referee the Men’s Northwest CBL Grand Final
- Joel Lay was invited to the NBL1 RDP
- Joshua Dahdah for receiving the GUB Referee of the Year, selected to referee the U16 Girls Junior Nationals Gold medal game, appointed to referee the U18 boys’ gold medal game at the National Junior Classic
- Meg Hastie was appointed to referee the Big V Div2 Men’s Grand final
- Lachie Appleford was invited to the U14 Junior Nationals, appointed to the Southwest Woman’s CBL Grand Final
- Addison Van Der Werf was invited to the U14 Junior Nationals
- Sullivan Jones for receiving the GUB Junior Referee of the Year – Justin Stainforth for receiving the GUB Community Referee of the Year
Congratulations to you all on your achievements this year. We look forward to en even bigger year in 2025.
