BASKETBALL
In December 1891, James Naismith, a Canadian professor of physical education in Springfield, Massachusetts, was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day. He was looking for a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied during the long winters.
After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or not suited to indoor gymnasiums, he invented a new game in which players would pass a ball to teammates and try to score points by tossing the ball into a basket mounted on a wall.
Naismith wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto an elevated track. Naismith initially set up the peach basket with its bottom intact, which meant that the ball had to be retrieved manually after each "basket" or point scored. This quickly proved tedious, so Naismith removed the bottom of the basket to allow the balls to be poked out with a long dowel after each scored basket. The peach baskets were used until 1906 when they were finally replaced by metal hoops with backboards.
WHAT DOES BASKETBALL TEACH YOU?
THE VALUE OF TEAM WORK
PATIENCE
FITNESS AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
THE INEVITABILITY OF FAILURE
TO GRAB EVERY OPPORTUNITY
PAY ATTENTION TO DETAIL
MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL STABILITY
HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION
OUR TEAM
Orange United enters teams in both junior (boys and girls) and seniors (men’s and women’s) into the Orange Basketball Association which plays competition all year round, with a summer and winter competition. The summer competition runs from October through to March and winter competition runs from March through to September.
Our basketball caters for all age groups from primary school boys and girls, high school boys and girls and our senior men and woman. At any one time we have upto 4 teams playing in the primary school division, and two teams in both the high school boys/girls and our open men’s and woman.
Game locations:
Orange PCYC Seymour Street
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