WHO WE ARE
Toorak Basketball Club was incorporated in the interests of community engagement with and not limited to the following key objectives:
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1. To be an accessible club that provides any child wanting to participate, the opportunity to play basketball in a supportive team environment.
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2. To promote the sport of basketball and grow participation across the City of Stonnington and surrounds.
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3. Advocate to all levels of government for improved and increased indoor sporting facilities.
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4. To provide opportunities for players and coaches to participate at all levels available to the club.
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5. To educate and inform our members of pathways to higher levels of the sport including regional and association tournaments and Representative Basketball.
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6. Cultivate positive, productive relations with stakeholders, fellow clubs, facilities operators, competition associations and government for the betterment of the sport.
OUR HISTORY
The Toorak Basketball Club had humble beginnings back in 2005 when parents of Toorak Primary School Grade Prep girls sought to establish a competition team. In Term 1 2006 they took to the court at MSAC in Albert Park as the Toorak Titans.
The parents of the Club's inaugural team wanted their daughters to go through school in a supportive, friendly group environment that taught the positive concepts of hard work and effort equaling just reward and robust physical health and the parent coaches prioritised a culture of respectful sportsmanship towards teammate and opposition alike and for the referees.
The second team, a mixed boys and girls team going by the moniker, Toorak Trouble, was not added until 2010. Team success and the obvious health, strength and confidence benefits of the visible, physical training and competition had a growing number of parents and children interested in joining the nascent program and the need to form new teams became a constant. A team would often grow so large that they would split, forming two teams and occasionally three.
Year on year growth saw the number of teams swell to around 25 by 2019.
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Whilst Toorak Primary School was where the club began those many years ago, in 2020, the Club formally incorporated as a not-for-profit organisation and has players from all over the community and over 50 schools and as at 2025 are fielding around 60 teams across three different leagues.
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OUR BOARD AND COMMITTEE
Toorak Basketball Club has become a success through the strong continuous culture of hard work of our volunteer parents and past players and welcome anyone to become involved.​
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Toorak Basketball Club Board & Committee consists of:
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Board of Management
Zoey McPherson, Board President
Lauren Mai, Board Vice President
Krysty Green, Secretary
Elisha Saporito, Board Treasurer
Stuart Burriss, Operations Manager
Committee Officers
Av Bajram, Coaching Development Officer
Melina Polychronidis, Fundraising & Events
Tegan Rogers, Child Safety Officer
Priscilla Ruffolo - Grants Officer, Government
Lara Burriss - Grants Officer, Community
For further information about the club, please contact us via email at join@toorakbasketball.org.au