Greenhills Basketball Club History

In August of 1970, Bob Plummer along with his two sons Daren and Greg and five of their friends from Greenhills Primary School, started training. After eight weeks they entered competition at Coburg Stadium and were runners up in the Summer under 10 competition. During the next year their neighbours, Shirley & Graham Pollard started a team each, and from there basketball teams in Greenhills grew at a rapid rate. In 1974 a group of parents decided there were advantages to be gained by being one club, and the Greenhills Basketball Club was born and very quickly grew into many boys, girls, men’s and ladies teams.

It was always felt by the original members of the Club, that in order to give budding junior basketball players the best chance at learning sport that they needed to be properly coached and trained, and this could not happen without our own clubrooms. In September 1976 the Club called a meeting of its members, to discuss the possibility of the Club proceeding to build its own recreational & training facility. Of the total 187 families, only 37 families were represented.

Four sites were investigated over a period of time. These were Churinga, the now site of the Baseball Club in Karingal Drive, Diamond Hills where the Special School now stands, and Greenhills Primary School. Many late nights were spent making a decision, only for the chosen site to become unavailable.