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BBNZ Under 14 Regionals | Tournament Information

U14 Regionals

To provide three regional Basketball New Zealand tournaments for aspirational players at each association across the country.

To promote the game of basketball in the younger age groups, encourage players to stay involved in the sport by having quality and positive experiences, and provide the opportunity to enjoy the experience of a tournament format.

Individual Tournaments

We offer three U14 Regional Tournaments which are made up of 2 Representative zones each:

Please click on the tournament you wish to attend for details specific to each tournament.

Special Rules Applying to U14's

Boys will use a size 6 ball (Molten B6G3800)
Girls will use the size 5 ball (Molten B5G3800)
The use of zone defences is banned. All criteria can be found here
Playing time is 4 x 8 minute quarters with stop clock.
Each Affiliated Association must supply and name a referee for each Team when registering a Team. The referee must have agreed to be the team’s referee and has had previous officiating experience at this level. A referee cannot hold any position in the team as a player, coach, manager or otherwise. The Affiliated Association must cover all reasonable expenses of the referee to attend the competition.

Players that competed at the Under 16 National Championships are NOT eligible to play in the Under 14 Regional Championships as per the limitation on multiple championship participation.

Players age regulations can be found a the Age Definitions for BBNZ National Competitions document

All other BBNZ competition rules can be found here (page 8).

CoachMate App

CoachMate is Basketball New Zealand’s FREE app for coaches, managers, parents and players. The app has a full activity library with over 30 easy-to-follow practice plans and games all with ideas and progressions to make them easier, harder, or just different for your team each week.
With the schedule and team management feature you can also set your team’s practice and game schedules and add all your players and parents to one team chat. And don’t forget the extensive Learn Library with simple tips and tricks including:

Coaching fundamentals
How to interact with kids safely
Getting players to listen
Benefits of games-based learning
Inclusion and diversity
Responding to varied behaviour in children

Download Coachmate here – https://www.coachmate.sport/download-coachmate

Sideline Behaviour

The level of undesirable sideline behaviour at BBNZ tournaments has, regrettably, increased in recent times.

Examples of such behaviours include inappropriate comments, by spectators, directed at match officials, coaching staff, children, volunteers and tournament/stadium staff, swearing, yelling abuse, racism, athlete confrontation, overly loud and aggressive attitude etc.

We ask that you work with us to support efforts to minimise these behaviours.

Be A Great Supporter.

Let them play.

These are kids. This is a game. Coaches are volunteers. Refs are human. This is not the NBA.

Our full ‘Be A Great Supporter’ document and ‘Code of Conduct’ can be found here.

Mouthguards

It is compulsory for all players participating in all age grade (under 20’s and younger) competitions, leagues and tournaments run by BBNZ and its members to wear a protective mouthguard when they are on court and the game is in play
The No Mouthguard, No Play Policy is to be firmly enforced
Players are not permitted to share mouthguards
Mouthguards of any colour may be worn (except in FIBA events where they must be non-coloured/transparent)

Please click here to view the BBNZ Mouthguard Policy.

Tournament Fees