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Welcome to the new website for the South East Basketball 
Regional Development Program
The Regional program is a player development system for male and females. Regional squads are put together at the Under 13, Under 15 and Under 17 age groups. The program serves as both an identification and development process for England's ten regions. It provides players with a direct pathway to progress from their home club to Regional selection and then to England national junior squad and team selection. It links clubs to country through localised organisation and knowledge
It is also a coach development system where coaches learn and implement a national curriculum and are assessed with a view to improving their coaching. It will draw coaches from the club level closer together through good communication and also allow for collaboration over player development. This will improve the quality of player development in England.
Regional squad players will be coached to a British curriculum in the training phase prior to competition at the Inter-Regional tournaments. They will learn and develop individually through their involvement. While there are games played at the Inter-Regional tournament, the focus is not on winning the tournament but on learning. The focus is player development through enabling players to learn and understand the key British team concepts and apply their individual skills that they have learned at club or APC level.
Regional teams will play to a nominated British style ensuring that key team concepts are understood by players and coaches. At the regional tournament, selectors will watch games and liaise with each regional coach about the progress of each team member. Any assessment will then be based on both training and game performance. This will improve the talent identification system and is a better system of trialing or trying out for England squad selection, but also ensuring that all players are developing, irrespective of standard.
England Basketball currently has 10 identified regions within its framework. Each region has an elected committee responsible for regional basketball development activities including the regional development teams.
The Regional Management Committees along with England Basketball organises the squads and coaches. Players are invited to trial or are nominated by club coaches to attend, learn and compete for selection. Club coaches should liaise with their respective regional coach regarding training.
The recommended training phase is 10 to 45 hours of teaching and learning the national curriculum of team concepts and key understandings.
Website administered by Crawley Cagers Basketball Club
cliff@southeastbasketball.co.uk
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