Congratulations to the following NSW athletes who have been selected to attend the Australian National Performance Camp (NPC) to be held at the Australian Institute of Sport January 23-25, 2023.
The National Performance Camp is an intensive 3-day live-in camp led by the Basketball Australia Centre of Excellence Women’s and Men’s head coaches and is designed for identified young athletes with the opportunity to train with and against their peers from around the country.
The camp will include six on-court sessions, strength and conditioning education, recovery and elite training standards.
Females
Opal Bird – Manly Warringah Sea Eagles / CoE
Jade Crook – Albury Cougars
Jessie-May Hall – Bankstown Bruins
Zoe Jackson – Penrith Panthers
Ruby Perkins – Norths Bears
Saffron Shiels – Newcastle Falcons / CoE
Males
Emmett Adair – Norths Bears
Bradley Ballinger – Illawarra Hawks
Lachlan Clague – Hornsby Ku Ring Gai Spiders
Xavier Istomin-Monroe – Sydney Comets
The National Performance Camp has been a key talent development activity for more than 30 years and has seen Opals and Boomers legends such as Lauren Jackson, Penny Taylor, Steph Talbot, Patty Mills, Andrew Bogut and Aron Baynes attend the camp as junior players.