The South Island Residential Coaches Workshop is delivered in partnership with Basketball New Zealand, providing coaches from throughout the South Island community to opportunity to access learning opportunities in a player development setting with some of the leading coaches from around New Zealand. Five successful workshops have now ran, with the most recent workshop taking place 6th-9th December, 2024.

The next South Island Residential Coaches Workshop will be 5th-8th December, 2025. Over 150 pathway coaches throughout the South Island have attended these workshops, with over 100 on-court coaches also being involved. The workshop includes support from Basketball New Zealand with coach developers and expert presenters, including South Island NZNBL & Tauihi Basketball Aotearoa coaches.

Run in collaboration with the Mainland Eagles Summer Camp, it provides coaches a unique opportunity to observe, learn and reflect on real life training sessions and games.

The South Island Residential Coaches Workshop aims to target development coaches who fit between a Community & Performance Coach. Often these coaches are coaching in the School & Representative Pathway. Please see the below visual diagram that shows the target coach for the South Island Residential Coaches Workshop.