{"id":884180,"date":"2026-09-08T07:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884180\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T07:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T07:28:13","slug":"all-welcome-at-inclusive-basketball-day-in-seymour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884180\/","title":{"rendered":"All welcome at inclusive basketball day in Seymour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The free event is open to people aged 12 to 24 years and is designed to be a fun, welcoming come-and-try session where no experience is needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Led by the expert coaches from Goulburn Valley Gangarru Parasports, the event will be inclusive and activities will be adapted to ensure that everyone is able to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">During the event, Omnia Community Health will host Power UP!, a fuelling station with tasty snacks to boost the players\u2019 energy pre-game and help them recover afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Seymour Rotary Club will be providing a free barbecue lunch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Following the come-and-try session, everyone is invited to stay for an action-packed showcase game as the Goorbils take on visitors Greater Shepparton All Abilities team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Event organiser Lisa Richards, from Omnia Community Health, says the day promises to be a celebration of inclusive sport.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">\u201cExpect big energy, great teamwork and plenty of courtside hype as we celebrate all-abilities sport, our local community and the joy of playing basketball together,\u201d Ms Richards said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The basketball fun day will take place on Thursday, October 1 between 11am and 2.30pm at the Seymour Sports and Aquatic Centre on Pollard St.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">Registrations are essential and can be made by visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/sunburycobaw.org.au\/all-abilities-basketball-fun-day\/\" id=\"link-01abda64a2ceb60674fae68e450b3715\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sunburycobaw.org.au\/all-abilities-basketball-fun-day<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">You can also contact Lisa by emailing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seymourtelegraph.com.au\/news\/all-welcome-at-inclusive-basketball-day-in-seymour\/mailto:lisa.richards@omniach.org.au\" id=\"link-63065e168205f00673a48ce10cb8ae2d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lisa.richards@omniach.org.au<\/a> or phoning 0494 512 674.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ew-body\">The All Abilities Basketball Fun Day is a Victorian Government initiative, supported by Mitchell Shire Council.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The free event is open to people aged 12 to 24 years and is designed to be a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-884180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884180","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=884180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}