Universal Athlete Centre West

Westside Summit officially welcomes the Green Machines

Coming out of Broadmeadows, the Green Machines are built around offence. They’ve got plenty of guys willing to shoot it, they won’t hesitate from three, and they’re comfortable playing a high-volume style.

If they get going early, they can put points up quickly. The question will be whether teams can slow them down and force them into tougher looks.

WESTSIDE SUMMIT ’26 5v5
📍 UAC West — Sunshine West
📅 Friday 25 & Saturday 26 September
🏀 Domestic A/B Men’s Quality
⏱️ 4 × 10 minute quarters
🎯 24-second shot clock
🏆 Top 2 play the Grand Final

Friday: 8am–5pm
Saturday: 8am start | 12pm Grand Final | finished by 1pm

Game On West!

A lot of people don’t actually hate training. They just get bored of going to the gym with nothing in particular to train for. You go in, do the same exercises, maybe jump on the treadmill, put your headphones in and go home.

If you’re training towards a specific goal, that can be great. But if you’re just trying to stay fit and healthy, it can get repetitive pretty quickly.

That’s a big part of why we run our adult Lab sessions differently.
You can come in and scrimmage for an hour, get plenty of movement in and actually enjoy your cardio.
You can jump into a structured basketball session and work on your game.
Then your strength and conditioning has a purpose too. You’re working on moving better, getting stronger and building qualities that can actually help you when you get back on the court.

And you’re doing most of it around other people rather than training by yourself every week.

We’ve got people in their 20s still pushing to play at a higher level, people in their 30s learning basketball for the first time, and people in their 40s getting back into the game after putting it down for years.

You don’t have to be an elite athlete.
You don’t even have to be particularly good at basketball.
Sometimes having a sport you enjoy just gives you a better reason to keep training.
And if you’re going to spend a few hours every week trying to stay fit anyway, you may as well find something you actually look forward to doing, true?

Our August Member of the Month goes to Harrison 👏

It’s pretty rare for one of our juniors to take this one out, but Harrison has absolutely earned it.

Harrison is an Under 14 athlete currently playing rep basketball with Broadmeadows Broncos, domestic basketball and is also part of our WPBL program.

On top of all of that, he’s part of our Elevate program at UAC.

Elevate gives our athletes more access to the facility alongside structured strength and conditioning, so they can start taking more ownership over their development outside of their normal team training.

And Harrison definitely makes use of it.

He’s constantly in the facility. He gets his shots up, gets his strength and conditioning work done and is probably one of the most consistent workers we have in the room.

22 visits in August alone.

But it’s not really the number that earned him Member of the Month. It’s how he goes about it when he’s here.

He works hard, listens, wants to improve and is always keen to be involved, whether that’s training, tournaments or anything else happening around UAC.

Most importantly, he’s just a genuinely good kid and we’ve loved having Harrison and his family become such a big part of the UAC West community.

Very well deserved ❤️🖤

And thanks again to for looking after our Member of the Month with a hoodie of his choice.

There’s a reason we like athletes to start with an assessment.
It gives us a baseline.

We can look at where they’re currently at, identify the areas that are actually limiting them, and then make decisions around what their training should focus on.
Sometimes that’s shooting. Sometimes it’s their movement. Sometimes it’s strength, footwork, decision making or something completely different.

And sometimes what an athlete wants to work on isn’t necessarily what they need to work on. That’s an important distinction.

If you’re going to get assessed, you also have to be willing to understand and trust the process that comes after it. Otherwise there isn’t much point in paying someone for their expertise and then ignoring the answer because it wasn’t the answer you wanted.

From there, we can train those areas and then re-screen our athletes every 6 to 8 weeks. That lets us compare them against where they started, see what has actually improved and make adjustments when we need to.

Because without a baseline, you’re mostly relying on feel.
They trained hard.
They got sweaty.
They did a lot of reps.
Cool.

But did they actually get better?
That’s what we want to be able to answer.

Officially welcoming Coach Teariki Tukiri, better known around here as Coach Tee, to the UAC West team ❤️🖤

Tee has actually been with us for the past few months now, and in a pretty short amount of time he’s become a massive part of what we’re building here.

He’s a hooper through and through and genuinely loves studying the game. Whether it’s coaching, playing, watching film or staying up way too late trying to learn something new, basketball is a huge part of who he is.

More importantly though, he loves teaching it.

He’s patient, down to earth, great with the kids and genuinely invested in helping the athletes he works with get better. Everyone who has spent time around Tee since he joined us has quickly seen the type of person he is.

He’s currently coaching across our Academy programs, working with athletes privately and getting involved with our tournament teams, and we’re looking forward to giving him more opportunities as UAC continues to grow.

For us, Tee represents a lot of what we want the culture at UAC to be about. Good people who care about their craft, want to keep learning and genuinely give a s**t about the people they work with.

He’s already made a massive impact in a few short months and hopefully this is only the beginning of a very long time together.

Officially, welcome to UAC West Coach Tee ❤️🖤

UNDER 18 REP TRYOUT DATES 🏀

For players born between 2010 and 2011, rep tryout season is coming up quickly.

We’ve put the currently listed dates for Westside Imperials, Keilor Thunder, Hume City Broncos and Altona Gators together in one place.

Boys and girls are both included in this post.

At this age, players are making increasingly important decisions about where they play, who they develop around and what environment is right for where they want to take their basketball.

Having the dates sorted is the easy part.

Save this post so you’ve got them handy, and send it through to any players, teammates or families figuring out their tryout schedule.

All dates and times are based on the information currently available and may be subject to change. Always confirm final details directly with the relevant club.

UNDER 16 REP TRYOUT DATES 🏀

If your player was born between 2012 and 2013, here are the rep tryout dates you’re probably about to spend the next month trying not to forget.

We’ve pulled together the currently listed dates for Westside Imperials, Keilor Thunder, Hume City Broncos and Altona Gators.

Boys and girls are both included in this post.

Different clubs. Different dates. Different phases. Now at least you’ve got them all sitting in one place instead of seventeen screenshots buried somewhere in your camera roll.

Save it for tryout season or send it to another basketball family who’ll need it.

All dates and times are based on the information currently available and may be subject to change. Always confirm final details directly with the relevant club.

UNDER 14 REP TRYOUT DATES 🏀

If you’ve got a player born between 2014 and 2015 looking at rep basketball this season, save this one.

We’ve put together the currently listed tryout dates for Westside Imperials, Keilor Thunder, Hume City Broncos and Altona Gators in one place.

Boys and girls are both included in this post, so you don’t have to bounce between four different pages trying to work out where you need to be and when.

Rep tryout season gets hectic quickly, especially when players are considering multiple clubs.

Save it for later or send it to another basketball family who’ll need it.

All dates and times are based on the information currently available and may be subject to change. Always confirm final details directly with the relevant club.