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Evening Telegraph - 23/2/01
Dundee Sharks Basketball Club in conjunction with Dundee City Council has developed a monthly Central Venue Super League to be held at Dundee International Sports Complex.

The leagues will shall run on the last Monday of every month, have been designed to give children from Dundee the opportunity to play in a structure that encourages regular competition at an appropriate level. There is an under 14 league which will run from 5 to 6.30 p.m. and an under 16 league which will run from 6.30 to 8.00 p.m.

The Dundee Sharks are one of only four basketball clubs in country to be selected for the sportscotland National Club Development Programme. The central venue super leagues are one of the key areas identified in clubs development plan.

Dundee Sharks Basketball Coach Paul Boath said,
“The club is very excited at the prospect of working with sportscotland to develop the club. Basketball in the city has gradually been picking up and with this support Dundee basketball will hopefully be the force it once was in the past”.
  Dundee Courier - 27/2/01
A new basketball super league, offering reular competition for youth players, was launched in Dundee last night and the first matches of the new league attracted around 40 players. The new league isbeing operated by Dundee City Council's Leisure & Parks department in conjunction with the Dundee Sharks Basketball Club. Pictured at DISC are Dundee Sharks team members, coach Elaine Spalding (back row, third left), leisure & parks convenor Councillor Charles Farquahar (centre), senior sports development officer Audrey Morrison, boys coach Paul Boath, Dundee basketball development officer Lorraine Durie (second row, right) and coach Jake Moran.

  Evening Telegraph - 27/2/01 Although hampered by the recent outbreak of snow, the Dundee Sharks Basketball Clubs Central Venue Super League was a huge success. The league, which is run in partnership with Dundee City Councils Leisure & Parks Department, involved four under 14 teams and five under 16 teams.

The teams were slightly depleted in numbers but still managed to compete at a structured and fun level. In the under 14 League the Great White and Blue Sharks proved to be the strongest, comfortably beating the Reef & Nipper Sharks

In the under 16 League the Hammerheads are proving to be the strongest team playing well organised fast break basketball. The other teams are not far behind though and a lot can happen in the months to come.

Although the Leagues are run to provide the players with competitive, structured basketball, the main aim at the end is they are fun to play in.

Paul Boath a coach of the Dundee Sharks said, “all the players were in great spirits and this created a fun and exciting atmosphere, which enhanced the play even more”.

Results

U14 League

Reef Sharks 9 v Great White 11
Blue Sharks 12 v Nipper Sharks 8
Reef Sharks 1 v Blue Sharks 11
Nipper Sharks 5 v Great White 14
Reef Sharks 4 v Nipper Sharks 6


U16 League

Hammerhead Sharks 9 v Whale Sharks 1
Cat Sharks 8 v Baskin Sharks 25
Hammerhead Sharks 15 v Tiger Sharks 8
Cat Sharks 8 v Tiger Sharks 18
Whale Sharks 17 v Baskin Sharks 12

  Courier, Monday 5th March, 2001