Information about the Cardiff CELTS Womens Basketball Club
FACT : Basketball is a fast paced, dynamic and exciting sport that can be enjoyed by people of all ages and abilities.
Our main aim is to make basketball fun and accessible to anyone who has an interest in playing.
Our members can play recreationally or competitively, as we have a team that competes in the English National League Division II (Midlands and South West Conference).
Whatever your current skill level (from complete rookie to international level) we have number of highly qualified coaches who are eager to help you learn and improve.
Club History
(Thanks goes to the Pawprint website for some of this information)
There has been womens basketball in and around Cardiff for many years.
In 1987 a Cardiff womens team, known as Cae' Castell Cardiff first entered the "English" National League Division 2 - a highly successful first season saw that team win the division and gain promotion in 1988.
In 1989 they were renamed Cardiff Bucaneers but, unfortunately were forced to withdraw from the English National League in 1990. For a few years womens basketball fell dormant in Cardiff and it wasnt until 1993 that a new club, now known as Cardiff Flyers entered Div 2 of the English National League. Again the team had a very successful first season and were promoted in 1994 - before again withdrawing in 1995.
Two years later (1997) the Cardiff Clippers emerged into the English National League Div 2 and, with only a brief withdrawal from that league for the 2000/2001 season, remained a constant force in Cardiff basketball.
After a lot of hard work, the 2005/2006 season saw the Cardiff Clippers win the English National League Div 2 but, having learned from the lessons of the previous Cardiff clubs, refused promotion to remain in the highly competitive English 2nd Division.
During 2006, the Cardiff Clippers moved to the Coleg Glan Hafren venue and became part of the Cardiff CELTS Basketball Academy - which included, at that time, mens and womens (senior and junior) and wheelchair basketballl teams - all competing in various leagues. The CELTS Academy was, unfortunately a victim of its own success - the teams grew to such an extent that it became impossible to keep running all the teams out of one venue.
As a result, in 2008, the CELTS Women moved to our current venue - Eastern Leisure Centre, Llanrumney, Cardiff (see Directions page for more details).
Our sister Club, the Cardiff CELTS Wheelchair Basketball Club remains at Coleg Glan Hafren. More information about the CELTS wheelchair teams can be found here and more details about the CELTS mens' teams can be found here.
If you would like any more information about us, or womens basketball in general, and you cant find the answers on this website, please use the "Contact Us" page to send us an email....or you can email us directly at mail@cardiffbasketball.co.uk
We look forward to meeting you.
