Coaches
Coaching courses
Community, Club and Association coach accreditation — which one you need and how to get it.
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Coaching resources
Our coaching principles, session templates and a warm-up your team should be doing.
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Local competition coaches
What we ask of our local comp coaches, and what we give back.
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Representative coaches
How Junior Hawks coaches are appointed and what support they receive.
Read more →Every team at the Snakepit has a coach, and most of them started as a parent who put their hand up. Basketball Illawarra supports coaches from the first local-competition season through to the representative and NBL1 programs — with courses, resources and a clear pathway.
How the pathway works in 2026
Basketball Australia’s new Coach Development Framework has two streams. Competition Coach (formerly Club Coach / Level 1) is for domestic and junior representative coaches and is mandatory for all Junior Hawks head and assistant coaches. Representative Coach (formerly Association Coach / Level 2) is for Division 1, state and high-performance environments. Within each stream you progress Bronze → Silver → Gold by earning Coach Development Points through courses, workshops and coaching experience — there’s no fixed time between levels.
Contact
Development: development@snakepit.com.au · (02) 4225 9999