Knox Basketball was established in 1945 to provide youth from the City of Knox with a sporting and social infrastructure to develop and promote personal, team and social skills in a sporting environment. Founded by Alf Stevens, Alice Jago and Heather Kemp it began as an after school competition at the Mossfield Avenue Facility, Ferntree Gully in 1974. In 1980 its headquarters moved to the 3 court facility in Park Crescent at Boronia which was expanded to six courts in 1989.
In 2007 it was awarded the Basketball Australia "2007 Best Large Association Award".
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The representative arm of the Association is the Knox Raiders with 38 junior teams competing in the Victorian Junior Basketball League (VJBL), a men and women's team in the South East Australian Basketball League (SEABL), men and women's team in the Big V, and a team in the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League (WNWBL).
Knox Basketball is home to a thriving junior domestic competition, with seventeen clubs fielding boys and girls teams from Under 8s to Under 23s at venues throughout the City of Knox and surrounding areas. It also hosts a large senior domestic competition which runs throughout the week.
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