About Us

TEAM OZ BASKETBALL was founded in 2016 by Warren Rosen. Coach Waz has been a high level coach with success in Australia since 2003. He has decided to take a different path and help Australian kids get to college and beyond. “Our focus is to prepare young aussie basketball players (Boys & Girls) to get to the next level”.

In 2014 & 2015 Coach Waz had the honour of being involved as a coach at the elite invitation only Adidas Nations (Team Asia Pacific) held in Los Angeles, California.  In 2016 Coach Waz attended the NCAA Final Four in Houston Texas where he met high level coaches/scouts in both the collegiate & NBA level. Since then he has been on the ground in the US making pathways for our aussie players. We aren’t just preparing these young men and women for basketball, but life as well. Our focus is to help our players have fun, learn the game of basketball the correct way, and learn life lessons from the sport we all love and apply it to everyday life! We strive to help all of the young men and women in our program become better leaders for the future. If we teach our youth to be committed, disciplined, and always give their all, we have done our job!

COACH – Scott McGregor

Born in Newcastle, New South Wales, he attended the Australian Institute of Sport from 1994 to 1995.

Scott began his NBL career in 1996 with the Newcastle Falcons, where he won the NBL Rookie of the Year award. In 1995 he played for Australia under 19 where they won a silver medal. In 1997, he played in the Australian Under 22’s team that won a gold medal in the FIBA World Championships in Melbourne. After the 1997 NBL season, he moved to the Sydney Kings where he would play until 2000, making the switch to Sydney’s cross-town rivals. He left the Razorbacks to become the first player signed by the Gold Coast Blaze.

Played in the NBL for 14 seasons around 425 games.

Represent Australia Boomers on tours to USA, played at the goodwill games in Brisbane.

Since leaving the NBL in 2009, he played in the Waratah League and the Queensland Basketball League.

Moved into the coaching pathways. Coaching for Gold Coast basketball, have coached U/14, u/18 and currently assistant coach for Gold Coast NBL 1.

Coaching director for Varsity vipers a club on the Gold Coast. They have 55 junior teams ranging from u/8 – u/20

Also coach the school programs at varsity college year 7-12.

He is looking forward to his journey with Team Oz Basketball and helping these kids achieve their dreams of playing basketball.

COACH – Steve Sardi

Coach Sardi has been coaching since the age of 16 back in 1977. Coach Sardi is a passionate coach involved in the Penrith Panthers Basketball Association representative program, NSW Basketball State Metro program, Penrith Club programs, St Pauls Grammar School program and in 2017 joined the USA Pathways and is helping the program to grow.

• Coach Sardi has led Penrith Panthers to win two championship titles one in the juniors and one in the seniors NSW basketball program. The last time the Penrith Panthers YLM won a championship in this division was 1995. It’s taken 24 years for the Panthers YLM to come back to the Championship winning circle.
• 2008 Assistant Coach to Penrith’s U16s Div2 final four and Runners up in State Cup.
• 2009 Head Coach Penrith U18s Div2 final four
• Head Coach of the 2010 U/18 Div1 to a Championship title, Runners up in the State Championship.
• 2011 Head Coach in the School Canadian Tournament at Abbotsford Runners up in Championship game.
• Penrith Panthers Head coach 18Div 2 Final four 2015.
• Penrith Panthers Head Coach 18Div2 Final four 2016.
• Runners up 2016 NSW Metro Australian Championships.
• Assistant Coach 18 Div1 Final Four 2017.
• Head Coach YLM 2018 final four, Runners-Up in Championship game.
• 2018 Final Four in ISA St Pauls Grammar Boys Basketball U17s
• 2018 BNSW Waratah Div1 YLM Coach of the Years
• YLM Div1 2019 final four
• YLM Div1 2019 Waratah Champions.
• ISA U/17s div3 St Pauls Grammar undefeated season 2020 Champions
• 2021- Appointed Coaching Director of Blacktown Storm Basketball Association
• BNSW – Awarded 2023 Coaching program of the year