2026 REP TRIALS

RISE WITH THE HIVE. WE ARE THE HORNETS. 

SQUAD LISTS | RELEASED 5PM TUESDAY FOLLOWING TRIALS

DETAILS REGARDING SESSION DATES AND TIMES BELOW. 

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that attended our 2026 Representative Trials. Congratulations to the following athletes who have been selected to move forward in the trial process: 

Thank you to all who attended our Rep Rookies Trials. 

  • Uniform Day | Rep Rookies 17th January 9.30am – 10.30am
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Saturday 17th January 10.30am 
Rep Rookies Girls
Milana Ayleen Batugedara
Ava Xi Chen
Grace Dee
Nahla Devanarayana
Claire Gao
Ayana Hogan
Eleanor Korfel
Lana Lee
Kyla Li
Diana Lu
Abby Mamet
Isabelle Masik
Olivia McAuley
Shu ning (Cosette) Mok
Isla Pourdarvish
Matilda Pritchard
Eva Raina
Danielle Siao
Amalia Spice
Laura Treak
Koey Yang
Coach: Nina Marshall

What is the Rep Rookie Program? 

U12 Rep Rookie athletes are selected from our Representative trials, as they have been recognised as players of potential and our coaches are excited at the prospects of their development. The Rep Rookie program provides regular elite training sessions and two carnivals to those athletes that were not selected in a Hornets Representative team, but gives them the opportunity to reach their full potential. 

Thank you to all who attended our Rep Rookies Trials. 

  • Uniform Day | Rep Rookies 17th January 9.30am – 10.30am
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Saturday 17th January 10.30am 
Rep Rookies Boys
Lucas Bai
Aramis Bayat
James Bell
Ace Choo
Harrison Deng
Ethan Ding
Andrejs Duselis
Sherlock Dzang
Jamie Grima
Aiden Han
Mikayel Khanlarian
Jayden Lau
Andrew Li
Aaron Liu
Quinn Miners
Kobe Nasyully
Joshua Piao
Kai Pirri
Kingston Steer
Evan Tan
Nathaniel Tang
Maliq Tayebi
Oliver Vi
William Wang
Oliver Wei
Coach: Emils Duselis

What is the Rep Rookie Program? 

U12 Rep Rookie athletes are selected from our Representative trials, as they have been recognised as players of potential and our coaches are excited at the prospects of their development. The Rep Rookie program provides regular elite training sessions and two carnivals to those athletes that were not selected in a Hornets Representative team, but gives them the opportunity to reach their full potential. 

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Hills Hornets U12 Girls teams.

  • Trainings will be on the 16th, 23rd & 30th November 8am – 9:30am at HBS.
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Sunday 16th November 9:30am
  • Uniform Day | U12’s Try On at 16th November 7:30am – 8am
  • High Performance Centre Online Information Session held on Wed 12 Nov at 6pm. Click here to register.
 U12 Girls Green

30

Natalie

Cao

31

Angelique

Chan

5

Claire

Chen

33

Maria

Fayad

35

Talitha

Gregory

37

Tess

Kennedy

39

Amelia

Korfel

43

Evie

Mason

47

Ivy

Niu

52

Bronte

Sharpe

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

45

Scarlett

Morgan

Coach: Greg Marshall

Assistant Coach : Olive Alley, Kasey Roberts

 

 U12 Girls Red

29

Joy

Bowen

7

Kimberly

Fu

36

Ananya

Karthikeyan

40

Shirley

Lu

41

Cieara

Maddi

18

Thara

Rahul

19

Olivial

Sreeskantapathy

22

Tyler

Tsai

56

Sze Ching (Alice)

Wong

58

Valerie

Zhao

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

15

Jasmine

Lin

2

Maya

Ravishankar

Coach: Yoppy Suwanto

 

 U12 Girls White
 

3

Vanya

Bansal

4

Sienna

Benitez – Taalili

1

Eva

Eckersley

8

Chelsea

Han

14

Alyssa

Lin

16

Vira

Naidu

20

Lillian

Tee

21

Julia

Tong

25

Piper

Wotton

57

Rosa

Zhan

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
11 Claire Kwon
26 Emma Yoong

Coach: Rafael Del Rosario

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Hills Hornets U12 Boys teams.

  • Trainings will be on the 16th, 23rd & 30th November 8am – 9:30am at HBS.
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Sunday 16th November 9:30am
  • Uniform Day | U12’s Try On at 16th November 7:30am – 8am
  • High Performance Centre Online Information Session held on Wed 12 Nov at 6pm. Click here to register.
 U12 Boys Green

49

Charlie

Bush

53

Liam

Dyke

56

Anthony

He

59

Matthew

Kalina

61

Zachary

Lenz

64

Harvey

Lukas

65

Liam

Masters

27

Spencer

Nisbet

71

Lincoln

Smith

74

Aslan

Tok

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

3

Jett

Bullen

69

Jeremiah

Rana

Coach: David Hayman

Assistant Coach : Cooper Parker-Kent

 

 U12 Boys Red

54

Leo

Evans

55

Eli

Evans

15

Kai

Ilustre

63

Raphael

Little

24

Jaylen

Nepia

28

Christopher

Payne

29

Shay

Prasad

70

Isaiah

Rizkallah

36

Orlando

Tong

75

Rory

Whyms

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

50

Tristan Chen

66

Zion Morcilla

73

Jack Thornborough

Coach: Cooper Moore

Assistant Coach: Harrison Parker-Kent

 

 U12 Boys White

4

Jasper

Chen

7

William

Cosier

57

Caesar

Hudson-Gofers

58

Edward

Joyce

17

Archie

Legaspi

67

Jayin

Naidoo

26

Tyger

Nguyen

32

Archie

Smith

77

Orlly

Yang

40

Aaron

Zhan

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

8

Charlie

Crump

23

Ryan Minnich

37

Senuka

Wijesekara

Coach: Callum Dunlop

Assistant Coach: Luca Tamas

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Hills Hornets U14 Girls teams.

  • Trainings will be on the 16th, 23rd & 30th November 9:30am – 11am at HBS.
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Sunday 16th November 9:30am
  • Uniform Day | U14’s Try On at 16th November 9am – 9:30am
  • High Performance Centre Online Information Session held on Wed 12 Nov at 6pm. Click here to register.
 U14 Girls Green

38

Arielle

Burville

39

Paige

Bush

41

Annabella

De La Paz

10

Nicole

Gao

44

Tsqelle

Impreso

24

Adrushya

Prasaanth

59

Melody

Song

63

Sophie

White

64

Yanxi

Zheng

65

Miya

Zhuo

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

48

Lena

Knezevic

Coach: Jordan Zenere

Assistant Coach : Abbey Houseman

 

 U14 Girls Red

8

Tahlia

Deng

42

Grace

Despoges

43

Saanvi

Goyal

12

Celine

Huang

46

Darcie

Kearney

21

Isabella

Nisbet

57

Alexandra

Romero

27

Leanne

Tan

62

Arianna

Vallejo

33

Jacqueline

Zhang

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
40 Rita Dabit
7 Emma Dee
26 Indie Simpson

Coach: Sophie McNaught

Assistant Coach: Alannah Ellis

 

 U14 Girls White

3

Rose

Baylis

5

Avalyn

Choo

6

Francesca

De Orbegoso Smith

9

Ella

Duselis

14

Zali

Kearney

50

Jayda

Magele

20

Zara

Murrihy

61

Amira

Tayebi

29

Evelyn

Vallejo

28

Margaux

Tugade

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

15

Miray

Kutlu

19

Eloise

Mugridge

22

Alexandra

Oxley-Andriannakis

Coach: Emils Duselis

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Hills Hornets U14 Boys teams.

  • Trainings will be on the 16th, 23rd & 30th November 9:30am – 11am at HBS.
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Sunday 16th November 9:30am
  • Uniform Day | U14’s Try On – 16th November 9am – 9:30am
  • High Performance Centre Online Information Session held on Wed 12 Nov at 6pm. Click here to register.
 U14 Boys Green

4

Cyrus

Bayat

8

Zackery

Chen

17

Arlo

Hodgson

50

Louis

Csirszka

52

Connor

Davidson

62

Vitaliano Quade

Jimenez

73

Elliott

Payten

77

Ja’Bear

Sione

78

Elroy

Strong

83

Elijah

Valdez

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

54

Samuel Diab

81

Mason Tang

Coach: James Eggins

Assistant Coach : Jason Strong

 

 U14 Boys Red

2

Archie

Aquilina

48

Harrison

Chapman

56

Jacob

Golding

16

Pierre Inigo

Hermosura

20

Fletcher

Hunt

26

Mason

Moussa

75

Kian

Santiago

31

Kendrick

Smith

82

Aarav

Upadhyay

84

Fox

Webb

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER

57

Liam Gray

29

Harry Sheng

Coach: Keely Marshall

 

 U14 Boys White

3

Matvey Kyle

Batugedara

12

LeBron S

Edo

23

Kopano

Lopeti

67

Reeve

Lord

27

Hendricks

Selorio

76

Mehtab

Singh

32

Benjamin

Sowaid

33

Maxwell

Summerhays

36

James

Thomason

37

Youmu

Wang

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
25 Jordan Morrison
71 Casey Paxton-Marki
28 Charlton Shaw

Coach: Tyler Jackson

Assistant Coach: Nick Lau

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Hills Hornets U16 Girls teams.

  • Trainings will be on the 16th, 23rd & 30th November 11am – 12:30pm at HBS.
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Sunday 16th November 12:30pm
  • Uniform Day | U16’s Try On – 16th November 10:30am – 11am
  • High Performance Centre Online Information Session held on Wed 12 Nov at 6pm. Click here to register.
 U16 Girls Green
31

Annabella

Bayley

35

Zoe

Heuston

7

Jayda

Isherwood

8

Yuxin

Jiang

41

Sienna

Johnsson

12

Mary

Makasian

13

Ava

McAuley

47

Sophia

Potloka

51

Savannah

Smith

54

Xinyue

Wa

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
23 Lily Tudehope

Coach: Nick Graham

 

 U16 Girls Red

33

Mia

Bush

34

Chand

Dhatt

5

Lauren

Hack

6

Malia

Hay

37

Christy

Huynh

40

Clare

Jiang

9

Hailey

Lam

11

Chloe

Liu

44

Mikayla

Martin

20

Macy

Simpson

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
38 Bethanie Hyacinthe
22 Barbara Teakle

Coach: Jessica Carino

Assistant Coach: Don Carino, Daniel Carino

 

 U16 Girls White

1

Hayley

Ayliffe

4

Altea

Guardiola-Gomez

10

Amelia Rose

Lin

56

Sarah

Loader

15

Chelsea

Meli

48

Amaani

Puri

17

Tanisshka

Rahul

18

Tanasha

Sharman

24

Diva

Vaidya

25

Nicole

Zhang

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
3 Ella Fawkner
14 Lillian Meehan

Coach: Alex Knippers

Assistant Coach: Ji (Jane) Zhao

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Hills Hornets U16 Boys teams.

  • Trainings will be on the 16th, 23rd & 30th November 11am – 12:30pm at HBS.
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Sunday 16th November 12:30pm
  • Uniform Day | U16’s Try On – 16th November 10:30am – 11am
  • High Performance Centre Online Information Session held on Wed 12 Nov at 6pm. Click here to register.
 U16 Boys Green

48

Isaiah

Balangon

53

Matthew

Farrant

10

Lukin

Hodgson

58

Samuel

Linsell

65

Kayden

McReynolds

66

Nicholas

Mendelevitz

20

Tony

Moussa

70

Kevin

Qu

78

Stephen

Tem

83

Dezmond

Yeung

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
56 Noah Glendenning
62 Lachlan Marshall

Coach: Lachlan Davidson

Assistant Coach: Alec Ryan

 

 U16 Boys Red

2

Nathaniel

Bolina

52

Cohen

Burville

8

Mason

Gapido

63

Max

Masters

68

Josiah

Owiti

24

Max

Parmenter

27

Zak

Pike

74

Braith

Sharbean

42

Jett

Solomona

40

Lixun

Wang

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
16 Franklin Little
31 Elijah Scow
37 Theodore Thomson

Coach: Jorge Gonzalez

 

 U16 Boys White

51

Nicholas

Boyd

5

Xavier Jermaine

Custodio

12

Xavier

Kennedy

60

Nikola

Lozina

19

Harry

Moroney

25

Henry

Phelan

33

Israel

Strong

38

Pasha

Tok

39

Harrison

Tollens

105

Parsa

Vejahati

DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
3 James Boyd
18 Viliami McKenzie
107 Zack Watmore

Coach: Andy Pahanel

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Hills Hornets U18 Girls teams.

  • Trainings will be on the 16th, 23rd & 30th November 12:30pm – 2pm at HBS.
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Sunday 16th November 12:30pm
  • Uniform Day | U18’s Try On – 16th November 12pm – 12:30pm
  • High Performance Centre Online Information Session held on Wed 12 Nov at 6pm. Click here to register.
 U18 Girls Green

27

Lyra

Clark

29

Fabiana

De Orbegoso Smith

31

Alicia

Fevre

35

Caitlyn

Grima

11

Holly

Mulheron

14

Summer

Paki

39

Peyton

Skinner

19

Kayla

Strachan

41

Maple

Strong

46

Angela

Tako

 DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
3 Charlotte D’Morias

Coach: Danielle D’Morias

 

 U18 Girls Red

28

Maya

Co

33

Kiara

Forward

7

Amreen

Kalsi

9

Mila

Knezevic

10

Anya

Lohani

12

Alexis

Mumford

13

Yumin

Oh

15

Anna

Peng

18

Elishia

Singh

43

Peyton

Unasa

 DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
20 Evie Tolhurst
45 Isabel Zambrano

Coach: Michelle Comito

Assistant Coach: Indiana Thom

 

 U18 Girls White

26

Olive

Alley

2

Jessica

Debenham

4

Ada

Dou

34

Sophie

Franks-Bugeja

36

Jade

Howlett

8

Sehej

Kaur

37

Hannah

King

40

Clare

Stoodley

42

Alexis

Suwanto

21

Sophie

Wallace

 DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
32 Olivia Foley
5 Amelia Garcia
6 Bianca Harizanov

Coach: TBC

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Hills Hornets U18 Boys teams.

  • Trainings will be on the 16th, 23rd & 30th November 12:30pm – 2pm at HBS.
  • Compulsory Parent Meeting will be held on Sunday 16th November 12:30pm
  • Uniform Day | U18’s Try On – 16th November 12pm – 12:30pm
  • High Performance Centre Online Information Session held on Wed 12 Nov at 6pm. Click here to register.
 U18 Boys Green

36

Chadd

Ablaza

38

William

Cassar

10

Marcus

Heuston

46

Samuel

Koborsi

48

Oliver

Lau

49

Jamie

Longhurst

17

Lachlan

Meehan

21

Darius

Potloka

23

Cooper

Skinner

27

Zachary

Thompsett

 DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
11 Liam Huskinson
12 Duane Ili

Coach: Xander Papadopoulos

 

 U18 Boys Red

2

Orlando

Arraiza

4

Ashton

Dardagos

6

Yohan

Estrada

41

Jacob

Farrant

8

Marley

Fawcett

54

Malachi

Rangan

22

Ethan

Roberts

57

Cody

Scocco

24

Jordan

Spice

28

Joshua

Tollens

 DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
13 Benjamin Joyce
18 Elijiah Morrison

Coach: Richard Howard

 

 U18 Boys White

37

Jayden

Caparas

39

Oliver

Crispin

43

Trevin Niaz

Gruezo

15

Thomas

Kesby

51

Hunter

Marshall

58

Kavil

Singh

25

Nicholas

Supriadi

26

Jake

Taukeiaho

30

Charlie

Thom

62

Jonathan

Tomko

 DEVELOPMENT PLAYER
19 Milad Nabhan
60 Gabriel Stewart

Coach: Darren Marshall

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Youth League Women 1 and 2 teams. Further details regarding the program and season preparations will be shared directly through the respective team group chats. We look forward to an exciting 2026 season ahead

Youth Women 1

1

Eva

Bailey

2

Gurkiran

Bhullar

5

Lucy

Corke

6

Francesca

Cusack

13

Adeng

Gak

14

Chloe

Garnon

16

Abbey

Houseman

18

Chelsea

Hudson

19

Hannah

King

20

Ella

Leasuasu

21

Nina

Marshall

28

Joanna

Sebastian

Development Player
11 Alicia Fevre
15 Caitlyn Grima

Coach: Lachlan Hudson

Assistant Coach: Jess Carino

 

Youth Women 2

33

Makayla

D’Morias

9

Alannah

Ellis

10

Priya

Fawcett

17

Georgia

Hudson

22

Caitlin

Nisbet

23

Kiana

Pavey

24

Addison

Prakash

25

Kasey

Roberts

26

Rhian

Roberts

34

Isabelle

Rodham

27

Layla

Saab

Development Player
4 Lyra Clark
12 Kiara Forward
30 Maple Strong
32 Peyton Unasa

Coach: Avo Makasian

 

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Youth League Men 1 and 2 teams.Further details regarding the program and season preparations will be shared directly through the respective team group chats. We look forward to an exciting 2026 season ahead

Youth Men 1

55

Lav

Banjac

60

Joaquin

Gonzalez

12

Brooklyn

Ili

46

Sergei

Jakovljevic

17

Harry

Liubinskas

49

Gabriel

Markovtzev

20

Max

Marshall

24

Saxon

Orsini

25

Matthew

Pain

27

John

Papadimatos

61

Bailey 

Thom

42

Liam

Viljoen

Development Player
45 Koby Prakash

Coach: Daniel Trikilis

Assistant Coaches: Xander Papadopolous, Robert Davidson

Manager: Noel Prakash

 

Youth Men 2

2

Kingsley

Barnett

5

Alex

Chen

10

Riley

Hayhow

11

Joshua

Hill

19

Ethan

Macabulos

58

Jeremey

Pan-Cassin

51

Ethan Asher

Quimpo

53

Harrison

Reeves

54

Isaiah

Santos

48

Kael

Solomon

38

Jedi

Strong

43

George

Vincent

Development Player
15 Aiden Kovacs
16 Alexander Lawson
40 Kingston Vary

Coach: Darren Marshall

 

On behalf of Hills Basketball Association, we would like to thank all players that have attended our 2026 Representative trials.

Congratulations to the following athletes who have been successful in selection for the Waratah Men team .Further details regarding the program and season preparations will be shared directly through the respective team group chats. We look forward to an exciting 2026 season ahead

Youth Men 1

6

Benjamin

Graham

9

Kyron

Ili

13

Rob 

Meyrick

23

Jaskirat

Singh

24

Joshua

Lorente

26

Michael

Claus

27

Patrick

Nicholson

32

Marvin

Fidel

34

Jaret 

Wilson

35

David 

Hayman 

31

Zachary

Stosic

 

Nick 

Graham 

Development Players
5 Lachlan Davidson
14 Thomas Manieri
17 Alec Ryan

Head Coach: Nicholas Graham

 

Trials for 2026 are still to come.

FIND THE RIGHT TRIAL FOR YOU

We want every player to have the best possible pathway into Hills Hornets basketball. Please read the descriptions below carefully and register for the option that best matches your current playing position and experience. 

01.

REP ROOKIES

This trial is for all athletes born in 2017 to either be a part of our U12’s or Rep Rookie Program in 2026. From this trial, some athletes will be invited to the final selection session for our Rep Rookies program or potentially our U12 Representative Trials.

02.

STEP INTO REP

For players who have never played Junior Representative Basketball and would like to take their first step towards representative basketball. We suggest a minimum level of experience as playing in local competition.

03.

TRANSFER PLAYERS

For players who have played Junior Representative Basketball with another club or association and wish to transfer to Hills Hornets. Please note that a permission to trial form must be submitted. 

04.

2025 HORNETS

Only 2025 Hills Hornets Representative athletes born 2009-2016 (including 2025 Rookies & Development Players) can register for Hornets Junior Representative

INVITATIONAL TRIALS. All athletes will be emailed a link for Registrations. 

05.

SENIORS & NBL1 

If you’re interested in being involved in one of our Senior Waratah League or NBL1 teams, click the link below to find out more information. 

Youth League (U23), Waratah Men, Wheelchair & NBL1. 

Players MUST register for trials. Players must register and attend the correct trial according to their experience. 

All trial participants must be available for the following dates. If you are unavailable, an exemption request must be completed. 


REP ROOKIE TRIAL 1 (BORN 2017 ONLY) | Sunday 21st September 2025

WEEK 1 (OPEN TRIAL) | Sunday 28 September 2025

WEEK 2 (INVITATIONAL TRIAL) | Sunday 26 October 2025

WEEK 3 (INVITATIONAL TRIAL) | Sunday 2 November 2025

WEEK 4 (INVITATIONAL TRIAL) | Sunday 9 November 2025

Any questions can be directed to christie@hillshornets.com.au

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