On behalf of our club, it gives me immense pleasure to welcome you to Fall River Rebels Basketball Association for the 2023/2024 season. If you were with the club previously, welcome back! To the new players and families, we extend a special welcome to our Rebels family and hope you enjoy becoming part of our family and community.
Our club is a community-based club, self-supporting, entirely run by members who donate their time to benefit all members. I encourage our members to support the committee and to participate and help in every and any way you can, it takes a lot of work to operate the club and the more people actively engaged and participating, the better our club will be.
Our goal is to provide an open and welcoming environment for all players to participate in the game of basketball! We continue to strive to grow and develop our club to provide opportunities to play competitive, developmental or "just for fun" basketball.
Thank you for being part of the Rebel Family!
Roberta Sullivan, President
A few notes on expectations:
We expect our members whether players, coaches, or spectators to be examples of good sportsmanship. We have codes of conduct to provide guidance on expected behaviors. Please remember that your actions reflect not only upon yourself but also upon the team and our club. When we all adhere to the codes and guidelines, basketball will be enjoyable for all involved and we will create a positive and safe environment for our children, referees, and coaches.
Providing referees for games is a significant challenge to all community sports, and basketball is no different. If players, coaches, and spectators feel it is reasonable to abuse and intimidate referees, particularly junior referees, it will continue to be difficult to find people willing to pick up the whistle. Some of the current referees are young players from our club. We have a zero tolerance for referee abuse, if you think you can referee better, enroll to referee, you may find it is harder than it appears from the sidelines!