Central Coast Waves Basketball will host three senior home games at Niagara Park Stadium on Saturday, July 27, and will take the opportunity to acknowledge First Nations people.
All teams will be wearing a special playing uniform for the night featuring a design from celebrated artist, Stewart James, who has previously had his designs used by Sydney Kings and Carlton AFL club for their own acknowledgment of First Nations people.
James is a Wiradjuri man of the Narrandera Murrumbidgee River people and said that waves held a profound significance in Australian Indigenous culture.
“They act as more than just natural occurrence, they hold a deep connection to the traditional, spiritual, and ancestral knowledge of its people,” he said.
“Applying my own vision to the design, I have linked my creative processes and cultural knowledge to the mission statement and court values of the Central Coast Waves Basketball Association.
“In their rise and fall, waves embody the core processes of success.
“Success comes in waves and through respecting the process and celebrating the reward of hard work and determination you can accomplish great things.”
Within the design James has highlighted eight circles prominently which represent each of the core vales of Waves Basketball – respect, integrity, community, excellence, sportsmanship, teamwork, continuous improvement, possession is everything.
These circles are accompanied by the swirling patterns which represent the freshwater rivers and creeks that naturally flow across the land, finding their way to the saltwater.
“The outer layer of patterns represents the very thing that unites this design and the team, and that is the namesake of this artwork, Waves,” James said.
The games at Niagara Park Stadium on Saturday, July 27, will start at 3pm with the Central Coast Waves Waratah Youth League men taking on Hills Hornets followed by Central Coast Waves Waratah Women versus Murrumbidgee Mavericks at 5pm and concluding the evening will be the Central Coast Waves Waratah Youth Women rounding out the evening at 7pm once again facing Hills Hornets.