Miscellaneous
Luke Cann is the State Performance Manager at Basketball Queensland (BQ) and also was the Regional Services Manager prior to his current appointment. Luke is in his third year as Head Coach of the Logan Thunder NBL1 men's team, after making the quarter-finals in 2019. Luke has held many junior representative coaching roles, notably taking the Qld South team to silver at the Australian National Championships in 2018. Luke has been involved in basketball all his life and talks in this interview about the role models he has had including his parents, experienced coaches such as current Canberra Capitals WNBL championship winning coach Paul Gorris, Bruce Palmer and others. Luke has performed various basketball roles including as an administrator (with Logan Basketball as Basketball Operations Manager); player through the Queensland state pathways and now as lead Coach at the junior representative and QBL/NBL1 level. As the State Performance Manager, Luke has oversight over all BQ state and emerging teams and high performance programs and gives an in-depth view of the 3 key elements needed by Queensland high performance athletes to succeed as State team players. We talk about the various online resources now available to athletes and coaches and the importance of talking about mental health and ensuring players, coaches and the community are coping in challenging times. Luke can be contacted through Basketball Queensland at their website https://basketballqld.com.au/