{"id":311426,"date":"2025-11-27T04:32:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311426\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T04:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T04:32:09","slug":"shepparton-sports-upgrades-give-everyone-a-chance-to-play-news-and-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/311426\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepparton sports upgrades give everyone a chance to play | News and articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visy Stadium upgrades<\/p>\n<p>[Music]<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bartlett \u2013 Shepparton Gators Basketball Club<\/p>\n<p>Having access to these facilities for the Gators really creates a really enjoyable atmosphere to be a part of.<\/p>\n<p>Being involved with high-quality facilities really gives you that edge and the feeling like you&#8217;ve kind of made it a little bit<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Drone shots of VISY Community Stadium at sunrise<\/p>\n<p>Text: VISY Community Stadium Upgrades<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Wide shot of basketball courts<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Players shooting, passing and running together in a line<\/p>\n<p>Text: Safety improvements to indoor courts<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Slow motion shot of feet on a basketball court<\/p>\n<p>Text: Safety improvements to indoor courts<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Shepparton Gators Basketballer passing to his teammate<\/p>\n<p>Text: New equipment<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Closeup shot of lines on the court<\/p>\n<p>Text: Fresh new lines<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Player running in transition, catching the ball in the air and passing it<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Closeup shot of electronic scoreboard<\/p>\n<p>Text: New scoreboard<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Wide shot of a corner three being shot by a basketballer<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Basketball hoop and backboard<\/p>\n<p>Text: New rings and backboards<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Close up of basketball plays on the court<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Shots of the exterior roof<\/p>\n<p>Text: New mezzanine and roof<\/p>\n<p>Vision: A wide shot of the empty court<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bartlett<\/p>\n<p>I think the upgrades to the stadium only entices more people to come along. <br \/>Stands hold 1000 people, at the main stadium there, we&#8217;re capped at about 400 or 500 people<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Shot of a player taking warmup shots from the three point line<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bartlett <\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s only just going to strengthen our membership numbers. I think you look at your Bendigos, your Ballarats, your Melbournes they have fantastic facilities,<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Shot of Gators team running a set play in transition<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bartlett<\/p>\n<p>So if we have the facilities to back up the talent that&#8217;s in our local community, I think it can only go up and really challenge those types of clubs<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Basketball players warming up<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bartlett<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;d love to see is these stands absolutely packed out.<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Long sequence of Gators team running a play down the court, passing and shooting<\/p>\n<p>Matt Bartlett<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be in the stands joining the crowd, cheering on the boys on courtside and just hopefully allowing all of our younger kids to come along play and develop on really fantastic facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Shots of interior VISY Stadium facilities, hoops and lines<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Closeup shot of team huddle, slow motion basketball passes from players<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Players shooting, running and passing<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Closeup shot of ball going through the net<\/p>\n<p>Vision: Drone shot of VISY Community Stadium from the air<\/p>\n<p>[Victorian State Government\u2013 Authorised by the Victorian Government, Melbourne]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visy Stadium upgrades [Music] Matt Bartlett \u2013 Shepparton Gators Basketball Club Having access to these facilities for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-311426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}