How a 20-Year-Old with Dyslexia Built One of Australia's Fastest-Growing Kids' Basketball Programs

The real story behind Little Boomers

I started Little Boomers for one simple reason: I love coaching, and I wanted to grow the game I cared about.

But it wasn't a straight line to get there. I went to the University of Technology Sydney to study Sport and Exercise Science, planning to become a physiotherapist. I finished the degree, did an internship, and that's when I realised it wasn't for me.

So I started my first business, an online coaching course. It failed. Zero people signed up. Not one. My confidence took a real hit.

My second business was Little Boomers Basketball. At the time, no one was offering basketball classes for primary school kids. Everything out there was built for high schoolers. The little ones, the 3 to 12 year olds just starting out, had nowhere to go. So I decided to build it myself.

I didn't have funding, and my parents didn't hand me any money. I'm grateful they didn't, because it meant I had to build everything from scratch, from the ground up. On the 1st of May 2018, I ran my very first class on my own, with my mum, Mary, by my side checking the kids in. From day one it was a family-run business, and it still is today.

16 kids turned up to that first session. That one class became Little Boomers Basketball, now one of Australia's fastest-growing kids' basketball programs for children aged 3 to 12, run as a national franchise network with coaches who care as much as I do.

I still remember those first 16 faces. Every class we run is built on the same idea that started it all: get a kid to believe in themselves on the court, and that confidence follows them everywhere. That's the real story behind Little Boomers, and I'd love for your child to be part of the next chapter.