LAKESIDE

JUNIOR DOMESTIC
PARENT INFORMATION PACK
2024
LAKESIDE JUNIOR DOMESTIC 2024
AGE GROUPS
Lakeside’s 2024 Junior Domestic seasons will see players
organized by their schooling year.

Please see the table below for our age group allocations and
their corresponding game nights.

AGE GROUP (2024 school year) PLAYING NIGHT

PP – Year 1 Friday

Years 2 & 3 Friday

Years 4 & 5 Monday

Years 6 & 7 Wednesday

Years 8 & 9 Tuesday

Years 10 & 11 Boys Friday

Years 10, 11 & 12 Girls Tuesday

Years 12 Friday
JUNIOR DOMESTIC PLAYING RULES

WABL PLAYER RESTRICTIONS

Lakeside enforces a restricted player policy for all junior domestic seasons. Please review this policy here:
Each team may have no more than three restricted WABL players registered to their team each season.
A restricted WABL player is as follows: Restricted Player Policy
• U12 Championship
• U14 Championship & Division 2
• U16 Championship & Division 2
• U18 Championship & Division 2

Teams with more than three restricted players will not be accepted.

ZONE DEFENCE POLICY

A no zone policy is applied to Pre-Primary – Year 9 across all Lakeside junior domestic competitions. A
zone will be judged on if a player(s) is defensively guarding space and not actively guarding a player
for an excessive amount of time.

A team that has been identified as playing a zone by a Court Controller or Referee Coach, will be
issued a warning to the coach, if the zone continues then the coach will be issued a technical foul.
 Years PP – 1 STRUCTURE
Lakeside’s PP – Year 1 2024 competition will see an implementation of a training
element scheduled within teams allocated weekly game time. This will provide all
teams the time to learn fundamental basketball skills and rules from a Lakeside
coach/referee to assist in improving their gameplay.

The training element will be scheduled for a 15-minute time period before moving into
a 25-minute game (two 12.5-minute halves).

This will be beneficial for all players and coaches as it will allow time within the week to
focus on skill development, helping all teams to progress similarly whilst still
participating in competitive gameplay.

Teams within this age group will be divided into advanced and development grades
and will see slight rule differences during games (similar to our 2023 season), to
accommodate all abilities and encourage game flow.

We will continue to review this set up through each term.

15-minute Training Allocation 25-minute Game Allocation

o Training conducted by referees and o Two 12.5-minute halves.
team coaches. o Teams graded into advanced and
o Lakeside providing weekly session development divisions.
outlines with drills/skills to focus on o Aim: Provide fun and competitive
and develop. team games. Players can use skills
o Aim: Increase game and rule learnt in training allocation time in
knowledge by assisting and real-time game play.
encouraging skill development.
 GRADING PROCESSES
In Semester 1 2024, the grading process will see teams participate in three weeks of
grading games, playing two teams each round for 20-minute games. Over the course
of grading, each team will verse up to six different teams in comparison to the three
from other grading seasons. Games will be 20 minutes long, with 10-minute halves.
This will allow the competition team additional data and statistics in regard to each
team's skill level and competitiveness, assisting with a more accurate grading ability
after the three weeks.

Semester 2 will follow a ladder-standing distribution for the divisions created in

Semester 1. This process would see the top one or two teams from each division
move up into the next highest grade, and the bottom one or two teams move down a
division. These movements would be based on the final ladder standings from
Semester 1. All movements would be at the discretion of Lakeside to ensure
appropriate divisions.

Please note that is grading process is for semester 2 only.

DIVISION 2 DIVISION 3
1. Team A 1. Team F
Team D & E move 2. Team B 2. Team G Team D & E move
down up
3. Team C 3. Team H into Division 2
into Division 3
4. Team D 4. Team I
5. Team E 5. Team J
2024 REGISTRATION DETAILS
In order tor your team to be considered to play within our Lakeside Junior
Domestic Competition for 2024, allocated Team Managers will need to complete
the online Team Registration Application form.

Please note that this form is an EXPRESSION OF INTEREST ONLY.

All applications will be reviewed by Lakeside's Competition Team prior to

approval. Teams that are approved will be contacted with a registration link to
register for the Semester 1 Season. Confirmation will be given within a two-week
period of your team registration (not applicable over the Christmas & New Year
break).

Team expressions are now open:

Lakeside Junior Domestic Expression of Interest 2024

If you are a returning Lakeside team we encourage you to register under the same
team name used in the 2023 season.

PLAYER FEES
Once your team has been accepted, each player will be required to pay a registration fee of
$265.00 per season.

Continuing that all players must have a Basketball WA membership. This is a fee of $41.75
for 12-months of coverage. This includes insurance through V-Insurance Group. Starting 1
January 2024, Basketball Australia is introducing a Game Development Levy of $5.00 on top
of the Basketball WA Membership fee. Please visit this link for further info:
https://vinsurancegroup.com/basketball/
https://basketballwa.asn.au/game-development-levy/
 CRITICAL DATES
TEAM EXPRESSION GRADING ROUND 1 FINALS EXEMPTION DATES
Team Expression Grading for Semester 1 Round 1, Semester 1 will Finals games for both Semester 1 exemption
Applications will open will begin the week of begin the week of semesters are played dates will include the
on Friday, December Monday, January 29 th. Monday, February 19 th. the two weeks prior to following:
1st. Grading will take place the generic school year
over a 3-week period. Round 1, Semester 2 will break. • Labour Day – March
Applications will remain Semester 2 will follow commence the week of 4th
open until all team the ladder distribution Monday, July 15 th. Semester 1 will have • School Holidays –
allocations are filled for process. Grading via standing semi-finals allocated for March 29 th to April
each age group. ladder distribution will the week beginning 4th
After this 3-week be completed prior to Monday, June 17 th, • WA Day – June 3 rd
Once filled, application period, teams will be Round 1 and visible with and grand finals played
forms will no longer be allocated to divisions fixture release. the following week Semester 2 exemption
taken. decided by the Lakeside starting Monday, June dates will include the
Competitions Team. All grades will be 24 th. following:
If you are a part of a monitored throughout • School Holidays –
Lakeside club, please All grading allocations the season, and grading Semester 2 semi-finals September 21 st to
reach out to your clubs' are made based on is at the discretion of will be played the week October 6th
coordinator. team data and statistics Lakeside. starting Monday,
to ensure appropriate December 2 nd, and
divisions are created. Teams will be contacted grand finals playing the
is movement is deemed week of Monday,
Lakeside does not take necessary. December 9 th.
team division requests.
JUNIOR DOMESTIC GAME GRID
Years Lakeside C1 Lakeside C2 Lakeside C3 Lakeside C4 Kennedy C1 Kennedy C2

MONDAY 3:50 – 7:35 PM Years 4 & 5 – Boys & Girls

5:00 – 7:15 PM Years 4 & 5 – Boys

TUESDAY 3:50 – 4:35 PM Years 8 & 9 – Boys & Girls

4:35 – 7:35 PM Years 8 & 9 - Girls & Boys

Years 10, 11 & 12 – Girls
5:00 – 8:50 PM Years 8 & 9 – Boys
Years 10, 11 & 12 - Girls

WEDNEDAY 3:50 – 4:35 PM Years 6 & 7 – Boys & Girls

4:35 – 7:35 PM Years 6 & 7 – Boys & Girls

5:00 – 8:00 PM Years 6 & 7 - Boys

FRIDAY 3:50 – 6:50 PM PP – Year 1 – Mixed & Girls

Years 2 & 3 – Boys & Girls
6:50 – 9:50 PM Years 10 & 11 Boys
Year 12 Boys
5:00 – 6:30 PM Years 2 & 3 Boys
6:30 – 9:30 PM Years 10 & 11 Boys
Year 12 Boys
LAKESIDE BY-LAWS
Lakeside have a variety of by-laws in place for all programmed basketball competitions to
ensure fair and safe play for all. Please familiarize yourself with our by-laws prior to the
commencement of the season.
You can access our By-Laws via our website under Documents, or the following link: Lakeside
By-Laws.
If you have any queries, please reach out to [email protected].

UNIFORM POLICY
Players wearing incorrect uniforms without an exemption after our 3-week grading period will
NOT be permitted to play.

Correct uniform includes:

• Commencing in 2024, there will be a compulsory Lakeside Domestic Shorts that all players
will be required to wear.
• Lakeside Lightning WABL players will be allowed to wear their WABL Shorts
• Existing teams with custom matching shorts will be allowed to continue using their
shorts
• Team jersey with a visible number back and front
• No undershirts allowed (compression wear is accepted)
• No uniforms from other basketball club or associations may be worn.

CODE OF CONDUCT
Lakeside Recreation Centre is owned by Lakeside Baptist Church. At Lakeside, we believe
everyone who enters our centre has the right to feel safe on and off the court. Our aim is to
hold ourselves, and others to a high moral standard. Sport is intended to be a recreational
activity for enjoyment and health.
This code of conduct has been developed to give participants some guide to the expectations
it has on those participants. It is intended to assist everyone to obtain the maximum benefit
and enjoyment from their involvement in any sport at Lakeside Recreation Centre.

Please review our code of conduct prior to the season via this link: Lakeside Code of Conduct
HOW TO PLAY
FILL-IN PLAYERS
If a player wishes to play on a team but not as a fully registered player, they must register through
our fill-in process.

The fill-in player registration link will be accessible at the start of the season via out website, and
QR codes will be located on all score benches during the season.

Once a fill-in player has registered via PlayHQ and paid the $13.00 fee, acting team managers
need to contact [email protected] informing the players full name and what team they
will be filling in for. The player will then be allocated to the team for that week's game and be
selectable on the game line-up.

Important Notes:
Players that are already registered and are filling-in cannot be allocated on PlayHQ, hence will
have to play without obtaining stats.

If a player is going to play as a fill-in and already plays in a Lakeside registered team, they must
ensure the team they are filling-in for is either a division or age group
higher. Players CANNOT play down in either age groups or divisions.

Players are also NOT allowed to play under a different players name and jersey number - this is
for a variety of safety reasons, mainly that if player becomes injured, they will not be shown as
'on court' whilst the injury occurred and will not be able to claim on their BWA insurance.

WAITLIST
If you are wishing to join Lakeside’s junior domestic competition but are an individual player yet to
find a team, the best way to get on the court is to register to our waitlist:
https://www.playhq.com/basketball-wa/register/074451

Players on the waitlist are not guaranteed a spot on the team. Positions are relative to the
number of teams reaching out for additional players.
LAKESIDE
WHERE IT’S MORE THAN A GAME

For further enquiries please contact

Lakeside Competitions Team
9310 7700

https://lakeside.asn.au/

[email protected]