Team Selection Policy

Team

The #1 team in each gender/age group will be the strongest team the club can field. Subsequent teams may place increased emphasis on player commitment and friendships. Each team will be selected based on the following;

• Skills
  – player equivalent skill level
• Player
  balance, team positional structure
• Development,
  identify players with potential development
• We
  aim for 7 players in each team with a maximum of 8 players. This may be
  increased at the discretion of the committee.

Player

Selection based on:

• Skill
  – offence, defence, ball handling and use
• Attitude
  – game, training, team orientation and effort
• Commitment
  – attendance (at both games & training) & reliability
• Friendships
  (where other criteria allow)
• Age
  (where other criteria allow)
• Financial
  – registration fees have been paid, or an agreed payment plan is in place

Friendship Requests

Friendship requests must be submitted to the club via email: playerrequests.thebasinwildcats@gmail.com and outline the following, before the close of player registration date (requests made directly to coordinators will not be considered).

• Players
  Name
• Parent/Guardian
  names
• Contact
  details
• Current
  age group & team
• Detail
  reason for request
• Signed
  by both players’ parents/guardians

The following consideration will apply to all friendship requests:

• Should
  the player be of unequal ability, the stronger player must be prepared to play
  in a lower ranked team.
• The
  club Secretary is satisfied that the presence of the stronger player will not
  have an impact on the grading of the team or any other effected that could be
  detrimental to the other players within the team.

Age Group Requests

In accordance with the Knox Junior Domestic Rules;

2.1.2 The criteria for eligibility within each age group are: –

• Summer
  Season – A player must be under the age stated in the relative age group by the
  31st of December of the year of the competition.
• Winter
  Season – A player must be under the age stated in the relative age group by the
  30th of June of the year of the competition.

In other words, a player’s date of birth must be before the 31st of December or the 30th of June for the summer and winter seasons respectively.

A request to be selected in a higher age group must be submitted via email: playerrequests.thebasinwildcats@gmail.com to the club’s Executive Committee for consideration and contain the following information, before the close of player registration date (requests made directly to coordinators will not be considered:

• Players
  Name
• Parent/Guardian
  names
• Contact
  details
• Current
  age group & team
• Detail
  reason for request

Requests for players to be selected within a higher age group, i.e. exemption to the above rule 2.1.2, the following consideration will apply:

The player requesting to move up an age group will not disadvantage players in the higher age group.  i.e. they will not take the place of any other player that qualifies to be selected in that age group.

Notifications of outcome of requests

All requestors will be notified in writing once decision has been made.

Dispute Resolution

Should a dispute arise between a coach or coordinator as to team placement of a player, the executive committee are to appoint three independent representatives of the club to review the dispute and if required arrange a time to view the player/s in dispute before making a decision on the player’s team placement.

Team Selection Process

Teams shall be selected from the following information:

• Player
  criteria
• Team
  criteria
• Coaches
  feedback
• Open
  discussion by team coaches & Age Group Co-ordinators at selection meeting
• Age
  Group Co-ordinators assessment
• Requests
  either friendship or higher age-group
• Selected
  teams will remain confidential until such time as they are released by the
  coordinator to the coach.  This will
  occur as soon as practicable after the former season’s grand finals are played.
  Coaches will make contact with their players within 48 hours of receiving their
  team list.