Basketball
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Manchester Met Basketball
Manchester Met Basketball club gives you a unique experience to join one of the leading basketball programmes in the UK.
Manchester Met Basketball is one of our performance sports. This provides an integrated pathway with the area’s top basketball clubs - Manchester Giants (BBL and WBBL), Magic (NBL1) and Manchester Basketball Club (NBL 3).
The University has a strategic partnership with Manchester Giants and support player pathways into the BBL and WBBL leagues. We have three men’s and one women’s team who compete in the BUCS league. Our men’s 1st and Women team are currently competing in the BUCS Premier Division - the highest level of the university sport pyramid.
As a basketball player, you’ll also have use of our outstanding facilities at the home of MMU Sport, Platt Lane Sports Complex. The complex is a Basketball England regional talent hub which is an initiative that supports clubs, players, coaches, officials, volunteers and partners to get the most from basketball.
Alongside a playing career we also have a range of different opportunities to help develop your professional career through placements including but not limited to: sports therapy, performance analysis, sport science and game day support.
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Basketball 1st team programme
As a member of the Manchester Met basketball performance pathway you have access to:
- Performance Coaching
- Strength and Conditioning Coaching
- Performance Analysis
- Live streaming of matches via Matchday Live
- Access to the Movement Unit for physio and sports massage
- Comprehensive workshop programme
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Coaching and Partnership
Callum Jones (men) has had over a decade of experience coaching at the AASE (Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence) academies at university level and is the current first team coach. Callum has been a professional basketball player for over 13 years, he was part of the 2018 Commonwealth Games squad and has played in the BBL for over 12 years for Worcester Wolves, B. Braun Sheffield Sharks and Manchester Giants. He has played for Manchester Giants for 10 years and is the Giant’s all-time record point scorer and former BBL All-Star British Team of the Year guard.
Marg Jones (women) brings with her a wealth of coaching experience, having previously assisted the Great Britain U20s national team, coached at various levels within Canadian University Men’s and Women’s basketball as well as Head Coach for the WBBL Leicester Riders, Loughborough University and more recently the WBBL Manchester Mystics team last season. Marg is the current Manchester Giants (WBBL) head coach.
Our basketball scholars
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Evan Walshe
MSc Sport Business Management and Policy
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Noah Togo
BA (Hons) Business Management with Law
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Idil Turk
MSc Sport Business Management and Policy
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Eva Karasaite
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Science
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Eve Shadrick
BSc (Hons) Sport and Exercise Nutrition
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Emilie Black
BSc (Hons) Sport Business Management
Partners, links and pathways
Basketball England
Shared initiative support to grow participation and performance. Collaborative student apprentice roles. Coach development opportunities
Manchester Magic
Host their Loreto college’s EABL (Elite Academy Basketball League) academy at Platt Lane. Shared recruitment of players for their Division 1 team.
Manchester Giants
We work together to jointly recruit players and also to provide student workforce opportunities through a professional basketball setting within an institution, allowing talented athletes to balance their studies with a hectic sporting schedule.
Become a basketball scholar
Represent the University and become one of our elite athletes.
Become a sport scholar
Play basketball recreationally
We have plenty of opportunities to play at a more social level.
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