The Altona Gators would like to thank David Nesbitt, Craig Bennett, David Formosa and
Barry Harrison for their guidance of our Youth League Men’s Program for the past three
seasons and acknowledge their contributions to our Club. The Gators won the Youth
League One Championship in 2016 and were promoted to the Youth Championship
competition for both the 2017 & 2018 seasons but struggled to return to their
championship form from 2016.
Altona have secured the services of Sedale Threatt Jr. to lead the Youth League Men in
2019 and beyond. As the Altona Gators look to the future, the Youth League Men’s
coaching appointment for the 2019 season was considered to be critical for the club’s long
term success. “Gaining Sedale was the first move as our club is ready to take big steps
forward with regards to professionalism, performance, culture, development and
sustainability”, said Altona Director of Coaching Randy Shanklin. Threatt has a track
record of developing players to play at very high levels of both the Australian and American
systems. These qualities along with Threatt’s exciting style of play were extremely
important toward his appointment. Altona can look forward to a high paced aggressive
style of play that will have the whole club excited to get down to “The Swamp” to rally
behind this amazing basketball spectacle.
Altona has also re-appointed Division Two Men’s Head Coach Des Radoslovic (2018 Div
Two Men COTY Runner-up) and Victorian Youth Championship Women’s Head Coach
Randy Shanklin (2018 VYCW COTY) for the upcoming 2019 Big V season. The Division
Two Men finished 9th and just outside of a finals spot. The Youth Championship Women
finished 15-7 and in a 4-way tie for the last 3 finals positions narrowly missing out by one
percentage point. The Big V season for all three teams starts in March 2019, but stay
tuned for updates to come down and watch trainings and practise matches as the teams
prepare for a big year!