Roller Blaze Wheel Chair Basketball - Gold Coast

GC Blaze were leading the Melb Tigers 50-32 at half time - and the crowd was really pumped when Rollerblaze took to the court to provide some half time entertainment last night at the Convention Centre.  The crowd really got behind the game and enjoyed the thrills and spills of the "wheel" form of basketball.  GC Blaze have played a very important role in the development of wheelchair basketball in the region since 2008. Blaze went on to defeat the Tigers 92-78.  More photos in the gallery.... 

Rollerblaze Blue won the Gold Medal in B Grade at the Spinners Tournament last weekend.  Louis Billett, Rob Bailey, Jaime Thomson, Mike Manuel, Gemma Buchholz, Rebecca Campny and Will Fox played great basketball over the whole weekend to bring home the Gold Medal.  We entered two teams in B grade and the Lions won the Bronze Medal.  Scott Boland was named in the All Star Five for B Grade.  Our A Grade Team  won the Bronze medal from a total of 10 teams.  Our new volunteer Bill Manson also travelled with the club to assist with reffing the competition.  There are two albums of photographs in the gallery - one dedicated to the volunteer referees - without them we would not have a tournament.

Gold Coast based Sundowner Houseboat Holidays again generously sponsored the end of season trophies presented on Saturday December 10, 2011. Will Fox is pictured left with his trophy for being voted MVP in B grade for this season.  In the B grade competition the Rollers defeated the Blaze to win the Wicked Cup, Paula Musson was awarded the Coaches Award for the most improved for the season and Paul Hicks won the highest points scorer for B grade with an average of 5.5.  Kay Farmer, President of the Nerang Highland Park joined us once again to present the Lions Medal for service to Lauren Petersen.

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