OzSwoosh head coach Craig Rowe has confirmed changes to OzSwoosh Basketball Skills Programs from Term 4, 2020. A participant survey resulted in a decision to move the Senior group from Saturday morning to a Sunday evening at Morayfield. Coach Rowe said the change was necessary to improve service delivery and ensure continued growth. Rowe said […]
OzSwoosh’ own Coach Craig Rowe is hosting a new Livestream show called “Be My Guest”. The show is streamed Sunday nights 8pm Australian Eastern Standard Time to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Features guests from different disciplines like sport, marketing, finance, entrepreneurship, motivational speakers and authors etc, from across the world. This would be his second […]
The value of nutrition and sleep for athletes may seem obvious. But are coaches neglecting to emphasise their importance to their athletes? In a recent interview, OzSwoosh Head Coach Rowe said growing athletes, particularly teenagers needed more sleep than most. Dr Mubasher Fazal is a Sleep Specialist and interviewed the coach for his Lifestyle show […]
OzSwoosh 2020 Satisfaction survey is being sent out to 2020 athletes and their parents via email, social media and private groups. Each year OzSwoosh asks athletest participate to provide anonymous feedback on OzSwoosh service delivery. As with past survey’s, this year’s survey will be used to make imrpovements to the program where needed in 2021. […]
OzSwoosh head coach Craig Rowe announced the OzSwoosh Channel would be revamped in 2021. “The channel has been neglected this past 3 years, as I have been building private and school programs,” he said. “It is time for a redo.” The first batch of filming was expected to start as early as next school holidays. […]
Are you a parent of an athlete or an athlete seeking US college scholarships? I am the parent of an Australian student athlete who ventured to the US in pursuit of his I want to share my opions. I want to share what I have found from the perspective of a parent of an Australian […]
Thank you to the athletes across our school based and private basketball development programs who took time to fill out our Participant Satisfaction Survey. Unfortunately not everyone got to give feedback due to absences at the final weeks of training. We wish to remind our program’s athletes we do understand Ozswoosh is not for everyone, […]
Ozswoosh’ school based program athletes and private Rookies program athletes came together recently to compete in a friendly game against each other to cap off a year of basketball development. The Rookies athletes dominated most of the play, yet the school program athletes demonstrated signs of brilliance with many showing much improved dexterity, speed and […]
Ozswoosh pursues an “Every BODY Wins” Strategy! We have adopted this approach to help grow the sport and not threaten the ‘status quo’ as a privately run independent basketball organisation. Most people are unaware of our organisational approach. When establishing Ozswoosh Academy in 2017, we decided upon an individual focused model. So in the interest […]
How to Motivate Athletes and Better Manage Their Personalities As coaches we tend to follow a common developmental evolution. Most tend to start out wanting some skill focused drills. Then you realise you have only been drilling and not teaching. There is a difference. You see you were not casting a critical eye and providing athletes […]