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The Ballarat Miners are a basketball team that play in the East Conference of the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL). They are the men's team of the Ballarat Basketball Club. Their women's counterpart, the Ballarat Rush, play in the women's division of the SEABL. ==History== The Ballarat Basketball Association Inc. was incorporated in 1966 and then built its own freehold facility in 1969 on the corner of Grevillea Road and Dowling Street in Wendouree. Backed by a flourishing local basketball program and facilities at the forefront of regional basketball associations, it was announced in 1985 that Ballarat would lodge an application to join the South East Basketball League (SEBL).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=History )〕 Basketball Ballarat formed a separate independent club to arrange the new venture and the Elite Teams department was established. The team chosen to represent Ballarat was called the Ballarat Miners and in 1986, the Miners were admitted into both the Victorian Basketball Association (VBA) Division 1 and the South East Basketball League (SEBL).〔 In their first nine years of VBA competition, the Miners only missed out on the finals twice. Overall across those nine years, the Miners won 147 of 219 games with a winning percentage of 67%. Undeniably the most memorable victory was in the 1989 Grand Final when for the first time in the VBA's history, a regional team won the title. This title came at the expense of the Melbourne Tigers, one of Australia's premier teams led by coach Lindsey Gaze and star player Andrew Gaze.〔 A separate women's team called the Lady Miners began in March 1984 and played in the Victorian Championship until 1990 when they joined the SEABL for the inaugural women's season. In 1991, they left the SEABL and joined the CVIBL, and it was here that they achieved considerable success, winning eight straight championships between 1995 and 2002 before re-joining the SEABL in 2003. Over the following eight seasons under Kym Cassells, the Lady Miners made the playoffs five times including four consecutive grand final appearances and a championship win in 2005. Despite finishing runner-up in 2006 behind the Bendigo Lady Braves, the Lady Miners went on to win the 2006 women's ABA National Championship. In February 2011, the Lady Miners were renamed the Ballarat Rush. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ballarat Miners」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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