Ramblers Basketball Club was actually born in Griffith, NSW. The team was then Resches Ramblers.
Back in 1971, the Lodding family came to Canberra to work in the building and construction industry together with a number of other tradies from Griffith. In 1972 they formed a men’s team to play in the South Canberra Amateur Basketball Association (SCABA) under the Ramblers name. Within 2 years, Ramblers had entered both men’s and women’s teams in the SCABA competition. All games where played at the Wesley Centre in Forrest.
Eventually SCABA and North Canberra Amateur Basketball Association (NCABA) amalgamated and became ACT Amateur Basketball Association (ACTABA). Once the amalgamation was complete, the competition moved to the halls in NATEX. NATEX now being now as Exhibition Park near Mitchell. Our Club started to attract more players and enter more teams in competition.
With the rapid growth of basketball, so did the ACTABA and new rules where introduced that required Clubs wanting to enter teams in Senior Divisions 1 and 2, know known as Senior Premier League, they were required to undertake coaching of junior teams. This rule was to increase the growth and quality of the junior competition by bringing additional junior teams and more experienced coaches to the new junior competitions. Ramblers first started to coach junior players at the Telopea Park High School for a short period of time.
With the creation of the ACTABA, our club name changed to Belconnen Ramblers and shortly after, we started to enter teams in the junior competition.
Our Uniform History
Originally, our club colours were black and white until a club called Shadows joined us and in recognition of this, we then added gold to our colours.
The red stripe was added much later when a club call Eveready amalgamated with us and in recognition of this we added their primary colour to our colours.
Our Club Logo
Our club logo was designed by Mark Warmington and it was based on the original Boston Celtics logo, and changing a few things to make him the Rambler man.
A Rambler is often thought of as a magician but that’s not quite right; Ramblers don’t use magic. A Rambler is so good a skill that when people see them perform, it looks like magic.