Hawks Gala Day 2023
What a fantastic Gala Day on Sunday. Thank you to all our WABL players, coaches, managers, parents, guardians, volunteers and NBL1 West Players for making the day such a success. It was a great club atmosphere and it was so good to see all our players from U12 to NBL1 West interacting and working together. A big thank you to our Board for their efforts and tireless work behind the scenes and setting up the coaches breakfast. Many people indicated that the club atmosphere and being all together was brilliant and so important for bonding. We came together as our Hawks Family!
We have had some great feedback from the day and our sessions and many parents and players have asked if we can organise repeats so stay tuned as we will endeavor to organise this over the WABL season.
Thank you
A very big thank you as well to our amazing guest speakers who not only inspired WABL Players but our coaches and parents.
Thank you to Craig Mansfield, Matt Parsons, Wildcats Head Coach John Rillie, Danny Mills and Dave Philpot for speaking at our coaches breakfast.
Ben Purser and Natalie Burton inspired our parents and players as part of our WABL meeting for 2023 and Natalie then ran sessions for our players on athlete wellbeing and mindset. An extremally important part of being a well rounded athlete.
Shawn Redhage had all our players fully engaged in team building activities that involved newspaper, streamers and lots of problem solving. There were plenty of laughs while learning valuable lessons in working together as a team.
Special guest speakers Lachy Arnott from Ascend Physio educated us on injury prevention, load and concussion while Carla Floria from the WA School Canteen Association gave valuable advice on the importance of nutrition for performance and fueling the body for games, post game and carnival weekends.
Thank you to Rosemary Barrow for her hard work and exceptional talent training parents on everything related to scoring and using the shot clock and to our resident photographers Tiarna Rose who captured the day and Sports Imagery who did all our WABL team and individual photos.
Hawks Artwork
It was great to see all our players adding their thumbprint to a piece of Hawks History. Over the year everyone will be adding their prints and the final artwork will be unveiled in December. For anyone that missed out their will be other opportunities over the season.
For parents and athletes who would like some more information here are the links below:
For Gala Day photos: https://www.tiarnarosephotography.com/Basketball/NBL/Hawks-Gala-Day-23/
For Fuel to Go and Play Information: https://www.hawksbasketball.com.au/fuel-to-go-play/
For Redhage Basketball: Redhage Basketball – Shawn Redhage Perth Wildcats NBL
For Nat Burton’s Athlete Wellbeing information & Enriched Athletes link: Enriched Athletes (@enrichedathletes) • Instagram photos and videos
* Please note we will be uploading information from the Ascend Physio session to our website and will notify everyone when it is up.
Whole of Club Photo
Whilst this could be seen as ” herding cats” , the end result was fantastic. This photo will be a part of club history!
The photo will be made available soon for everyone to download. Stay tuned!!
Once again well done to everyone involved – HAWKS as ONE!
