Photo Kylie Robertson
Basketball players from all over Australia and internationally recently converged for the Byron Bay Basketball annual senior carnival.
Players came from the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Brisbane, Victoria, Tasmania and Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Nigeria, Serbia and the US.
The quality of play was at a very high level, with the top four teams in each division fighting it out with minimal point differences to take the trophy out.
The men’s competition had two local Byron Bay teams playing, and the women’s competition had one local Byron Bay team, who unfortunately didn’t make the grand final.
The men’s final was an exciting match between the Skool of Hard Knockz (which included Australian and international players) and Behoys (from the Sunshine Coast). It was bucket for bucket all the way, with the Behoys taking out the win for the second time in ten years.
The women’s final was between the Warriors (from the Gold Coast and Murwillumbah) and the Rimshots (Brisbane). The game was tight for the first half, then the Rimshots stepped up a notch and ran away with the win. The Rimshots made it a hat trick, winning the trophy three years in a row.
Huge thanks to our sponsors: Club Byron, North Byron Hotel and North Coast trophies; and to our referees and our amazing photographer, Kylie Robertson.
Organisers Paula Daniels and Jenny Ogle have slam dunked this carnival, and after a decade of hard work and fun, they have retired, and will pass the ball to some new faces for 2025.
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