AAGPS Basketball
Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales Basketball
Formation1975
HeadquartersSydney, NSW, Australia
Membership
The King's School
Sydney Grammar School
Newington College
Saint Ignatius' College
St Joseph's College
Sydney Boys High School
Sydney Church of England Grammar School
The Scots College
Websitehttp://aagps.nsw.edu.au/summer-sports/basketball

The NSW AAGPS (Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales) is a school basketball competition played in Australia. It is an annual, 7 round competition played between 8 Sydney member teams that include Saint Ignatius Riverview, St Joseph's Hunters Hill, Sydney Grammar, Sydney Boys High, Newington College, Scots College, The Kings school and Sydney Church Of England (Shore). Preseason games are played in Term 4 of the particular season, with the official GPS games played in Term 1 every Saturday. 1st grade games commence at 11:15 and often attract large games. The 1st grade premiership is currently held by Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) while the Rashcke cup is held by Newington College. In 2nd grade the premiership is held by St Ignatius College while the PJ Yeend Trophy is currently held by Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore).

Every season the AAGPS/RASHCKE Cup (all AAGPS schools compete) is played (formerly in a one-week before Round 1, in a 1-day round robin formatted competition) over the trial rounds, with the schools are separated into two pools, with the winner of each group playing each other in the final. This cup is the 2nd most prestigious accolade from a season. In near consecutive seasons of 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Saint Ignatius College Riverview have made the final, in which they have been victorious 4 times (13, 15, 17, 18).

Commencement

The competition commenced in 1975.[1]

  • First Teams compete for the Denys Hake Shield[2] which was first awarded in 1975, and was presented by The King's School Council in honour of the wife of a former Headmaster of King's, Herbert Denys Hake OBE.
  • Second Teams compete for The TE Bawden Shield[3] which was first awarded in 1975. It was also presented by The King's School and named after the first GPS Convenor of Basketball, and later GPS Treasurer, Tom Bawden.
  • The AAGPS and CAS First Teams compete annually for the PJ Yeend Cup, presented by Basketball NSW.
  • The AAGPS and ISA First Teams compete annually for the McKay Cup.

Competition format

Formerly a 14-round competition where each team plays each other twice, since 2013 the competition has been a 7-round format with each team playing each other once. The season begins in Term 4, where teams will play trial matches against a mix of AAGPS, ISA, and CAS teams, including 3 rounds of Raschke Cup/Yeend Shield, where a pre-season winner will be crowned.

Term 1 begins the competition games where schools play each other every Saturday, 10am for 2nd V and 11:15am for 1st V. If a team is able to win 7 games they will be crowned Undefeated Champions and earn the outright AAGPS title.[4]

Results

1975 to 1999

Results
Year 1st Grade 2nd Grade
1975King'sKing's
1976King'sKing's,St Joseph's
1977ShoreKing's
1978St Ignatius',Shore[5]King's
1979ShoreSt Joseph's
1980King'sKing's
1981King's,St Joseph'sKing's
1982King'sKing's
1983King'sKing's,High
1984St Joseph'sSt Joseph's
1985ScotsNewington,King's
1986ScotsSt Joseph's
1987ShoreSt Joseph's
1988GrammarSt Joseph's
1989St Joseph'sNewington, St Joseph's
1990NewingtonSt Joseph's
1991St Joseph'sNewington, St Joseph's
1992NewingtonNewington
1993St Joseph'sSt Joseph's,Grammar
1994HighSt Ignatius'
1995NewingtonSt Joseph's
1996NewingtonSt Ignatius',Grammar,St Joseph's
1997NewingtonSt Joseph's
1998NewingtonSt Joseph's
1999ScotsScots

2000 onwards

Results[6]
Year 1st Grade 2nd Grade
2000Scots (champions)Scots
2001Scots (champions)
2002Shore (champions)Shore (champions)
2003Shore(champions)Shore
2004Scots (champions)Grammar
2005Newington (champions)Newington
2006KingsShore
2007ShoreSt. Ignatius'
2008NewingtonSt. Ignatius'
2009Newington (champions)St. Ignatius'
2010NewingtonNewington (champions)
2011Newington, High, ScotsNewington (champions)
2012High, ScotsScots (champions) (Undefeated)
2013Scots (champions)High (champions)
2014High (champions)St Josephs, St Ignatius' (Undefeated)
2015Newington/HighScots/High
2016 Newington College Newington College/Scots
2017 Newington College Saint Ignatius College, Riverview

(Undefeated)

2018 Newington College

(Undefeated Champions)

Saint Ignatius College, Riverview

(Undefeated)

2019 Saint Ignatius College, Riverview

(Undefeated Champions)

Saint Ignatius College, Riverview

(Undefeated)

2020 Scots Newington College/Shore
2020 Shore

(undefeated AAGPS AND NSWCIS CHAMPIONS)

St Ignatius College, Riverview

Notable players

  • Isaac Humphries (Scots) – University of Kentucky/Orlando Magic
  • Nick Kay (Newington) – Metro State College/Perth Wildcats
  • Jordan Hunter (Riverview) – St Mary's College/Sydney Kings
  • Jackson Aldridge (Riverview) – Butler University
  • Grant Anticevich (Newington) – University of California
  • Greg MacQuillan (Riverview) – Undrafted
  • Hunter Madden (Shore) – University of Idaho/Sydney Kings
  • Josh Green (Kings) – University of Arizona/ Dallas Mavericks
  • James O’Donnell (Shore) – University of Sam Fransisco/ NBA Global Academy
  • Henry Lau (Sydney High) – FIBA U16 Oceania Team, NSW State Team, NSW All Schools Team

See also

References

  1. "GPS Basketball Trophies". Athletic Association of Great Public Schools of NSW.
  2. "Trophies | AAGPS". aagps.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  3. "Trophies | AAGPS". aagps.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
  4. "Riverview Sport Outline". riverview.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 4 September 2020.
  5. SBHS (1978). "[High] finished second behind the joint premiers". The Record: 94.
  6. "Premiership History | AAGPS". aagps.nsw.edu.au. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
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