after school PROGRAMS

This program is focused on giving your child the absolute best first experience in basketball. Within this program, your child will have FUN above anything else.

Time: 4:00-4:40pm
Day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday
Location: "The Bear Cave" - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume St, Crows Nest

This program aims to teach your child the ‘SUPER 6’ in a fun and inclusive setting! Coaches will focus on making the sessions engaging, challenging, and most importantly, FUN. This program is a great way for your child to become game-ready.

Time: 4:40-5:20pm
Day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday
Location: "The Bear Cave" - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume St, Crows Nest

This program is for players who are ready to step their game up to the next level. As well as sharpen your child’s motor skills, a huge part of this program will be playing 3v3 and 4v4. The coaches will use small-sided games to engage and teach your kids both technical and tactical knowledge of the game.

Time: 4:00-4:40pm
Day: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday
Location: "The Bear Cave" - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume St, Crows Nest

Are you ready to STEP UP your game? Learn to Compete is for maturing athletes who want to supplement their own training and evolve their game through an engaging and challenging program!

Within this program, you will learn more advanced basketball concepts such as: Screening, Cut decision making, 1v1 moves.

Time: 4:40-5:20pm
Day: Mondays
Location: "The Bear Cave" - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume St, Crows Nest

Our Girls Only Development Program is a class designed to encourage young female athletes towards an enjoyable basketball experience focusing on fundamental skills, confidence building and teamwork. Our program provides a supportive network of female coaches to help develop these athletes towards their basketball goals.

Time: 4:40-5:20pm (Ages 8-11)
Day: Wednesdays
Location: The Bear Cave - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume Street, Crows Nest

Our Girls Only Development Program is a class designed to encourage young female athletes towards an enjoyable basketball experience focusing on fundamental skills, confidence building and teamwork. Our program provides a supportive network of female coaches to help develop these athletes towards their basketball goals

Time: 4:40-5:20pm (Ages 12-15)
Day: Thursdays
Location: The Bear Cave - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume Street, Crows Nest

Are you someone who is looking for something more challenging for your child but still wants to learn the game of basketball? If so, Little Bears League is for you. This program combines spacing concepts and transition game skills through the process of coaching on the run. Providing an awesome pathway for those who have been a part of our development program or are looking to play as part of a team.

Day: Wednesdays, Thursdays
Time: 4:00pm-4:40pm (Yrs K-2) or 4:40pm-5:20pm (Yrs 3-4)
Location: THE BEAR CAVE - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume Street, Crows Nest

Shooting is the master skill of Basketball, meaning that being a great shooter gives you a significant competitive advantage over your opponent. In this program, children will receive in-person instruction, home training activities & tracking.

Time: Monday or Thursday 4:20 - 5:20pm (Afternoon Session)

Location: THE BEAR CAVE - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume Street, Crows Nest

Enquiries for this program to mike.golding@nsba.com.au.

This is an invite only program. 

Thursday afternoons.

The Future Stars program targets players from our Miniball competitions, who demonstrate potential to grow as future Bears. The program introduces representative concepts such as spacing and offensive/defensive transition rules and other super 6 skills, while also preparing them for representative trials in 2025.

Emerging Bears is an advanced skills training targeted at players who have finished our development program and are looking to level up their basketball game.

Day: Wednesday + Monday
Time: 4:00 – 5:20pm
Location: THE BEAR CAVE - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume Street, Crows Nest

The Bears Academy focuses on U14 and U16 players who are committed to developing their basketball skills. This "advanced" training program is designed for young athletes who have completed our development programs and are seeking to grow their game to a representative level. The Bears Academy targets players who narrowly missed representative selection, providing them with representative level training and the tools needed to prepare for future representative opportunities.

Day: Thursdays
Time: 4:00 – 5:20pm
Location: THE BEAR CAVE - North Sydney Indoor Sports Centre, Level 5, 36 Hume Street, Crows Nest