IT'S THE job treated with absolute disdain, but the Junee Junior Netball Association is offering to help bring back basketball.
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The championship winning association Han three teams compete in the Wagga netball competition this year and wants to help develop basketball.
The club adopted a new name and is now known as the the Junior Netball and Basketball.
"What we're looking for is people who are interested in playing to come on board and help us," netball coach Jacqui Stevens said.
"Junee has got a lot of players who play basketball in Wagga.
"Some of our netballers are interested in playing throughout the summer to keep their fitness up."
Stevens said there had been interest in the sport but without a club, basketball would continue to languish.
"We're willing to take care of the administration ... we're registered with Fair Trading NSW and our insurances are all in place," she said.
The club needed to start attending to the paperwork so players could concentrate on the game, she said.
"When you play sport in Junee it's either rugby league, soccer, swim club, netball or touch," netballer Sarah Stevens, 15, said.
"It'd be good to have more choice."
Basketballer Eli Honner, 15, is keen to see the sport grow locally.
"If it's suited and there's enough interest it would be good," he said.
"If we couldn't get a team for our age, it'd be great to form a team and help the young players out."
While the initial aim is to form a social competition, Stevens said the goal was to eventually field a Junee team in the Wagga basketball competition.
Eventually, additional volunteers could help with the administration with the club as it grows.
For more information about junior basketball email juneenetball@gmail.com