AAGPS (NSW) Basketball

The NSW AAGPS (Athletic Association of the Great Public Schools of New South Wales) is a school basketball competition played in Australia. It is an annual, 14 round competition played between 8 Sydney member teams that include Saint Ignatius Riverview, St Joseph's Hunters Hill, Sydney Grammar, Sydney Boys High, Newington College, Scots College, The Kings school and Sydney Church Of England Grammar School (Shore). Preseason games are played in Term 3-4 school holidays in the Knox Invitational tournament and Rashke Cup aswell as the Trinity Challenge in Summer, with the official GPS games played in Term 4 and 1 on Saturday. 1st grade games commence at 11:15 and often attract large game, whilst second grade games commence at 10:00. The 1st grade premiership is currently held by Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore) while the Rashcke cup is held by Newington College. In 2nd grade the premiership is held by St Ignatius College, Riverview while the PJ Yeend Trophy is currently held by Sydney Church of England Grammar School (Shore).

Every season the AAGPS/RASHCKE Cup (all AAGPS schools compete) is played (formerly in a one-week before Round 1, in a 2-day round robin formatted competition) over the trial rounds, with the schools being separated into two pools, with the winner of each group playing each other in the final. This cup is the 2nd most prestigious accolade from a season. In near consecutive seasons of 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018 Saint Ignatius College Riverview have made the final, in which they have been victorious 4 times (13, 15, 17, 18).

Commencement
The competition commenced in 1975.


 * First Teams compete for the Denys Hake Shield which was first awarded in 1975, and was presented by The King's School Council in honour of the wife of a former Headmaster of King's, Herbert Denys Hake OBE.
 * Second Teams compete for The TE Bawden Shield which was first awarded in 1975. It was also presented by The King's School and named after the first GPS Convenor of Basketball, and later GPS Treasurer, Tom Bawden.
 * The AAGPS and CAS First Teams compete annually for the PJ Yeend Cup, presented by Basketball NSW.
 * The AAGPS and ISA First Teams compete annually for the McKay Cup.

Competition format
Formerly a 14-round competition where each team plays each other twice, since 2013 the competition has been a 7-round format with each team playing each other once. The season begins in Term 4, where teams will play trial matches against a mix of AAGPS, ISA, and CAS teams, including 3 rounds of Raschke Cup/Yeend Shield, where a pre-season winner will be crowned.

Term 1 begins the competition games where schools play each other every Saturday, 10am for 2nd V and 11:15am for 1st V. If a team is able to win 7 games they will be crowned Undefeated Champions and earn the outright AAGPS title.

Notable players

 * Isaac Humphries (Scots) – University of Kentucky/Orlando Magic
 * Nick Kay (Newington) – Metro State College/Perth Wildcats
 * Jordan Hunter (Riverview) – St Mary's College/Sydney Kings
 * Jackson Aldridge (Riverview) – Butler University
 * Makuach Maluach (Newington) – University of New Mexico/Sydney Kings
 * Grant Anticevich (Newington) – University of California
 * Greg MacQuillan (Riverview) – Undrafted
 * Hunter Madden (Shore) – Albeine Christian University/Sydney Kings
 * Josh Green (Kings) – University of Arizona/ Dallas Mavericks


 * James O’Donnell (Shore) – University of San Francesco/ NBA Global Academy
 * Henry Lau (High) – Sydney Kings