Milton Keynes College Lions basketball academy

Milton Keynes College Lions
Main sponsor	Milton Keynes Lions
League	British College Leagues
Established	2007
History	First season of competition 2007/2008
Arena	Milton Keynes College
Location	Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Head coach	Mike New
Ownership	Milton Keynes College
Colours	Black & Gold
Website	[1]
Uniforms
Home Away

The Milton Keynes Lions College Lions, are a basketball academy team from Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, with all players attending Milton Keynes College.The academy is coached, funded and run by the Milton Keynes Lions professional basketball team, who play in the British Basketball League.

The College academy team, is widely regarded throughout the British college leagues, as one of the best teams in the country, alongside Hackney Community College & Barking Abbey of East London.

The team achieved this prestigious status, after their incredible 2008/2009 season (their second season), where they went undefeated in all SESSA competitions, winning the cup, knocking out Hackney in the process, & beating them twice in the league to top the table undefeated. They also came second in the British Colleges Elite league to Hackney, Losing once, and lost to Hackney in the Final of the British Colleges Cup, and reaching the Final Fours in the playoffs

Team history

Player Development

In 2007/2008 several of the academy squad began practicing with parent BBL club, Milton Keynes Lions with prospect Greg Harvey forcing himself onto the team's roster in the latter months of the season. Harvey rounded off his season with participation in the 2008 BBL Playoff Final vs Guildford Heat seeing playing minutes in both the 3rd and 4th quarters, picking up 1 foul and 1 rebound wearing the number 5 jersey.

Home court

Milton Keynes College

Notes:

• During the 2006/2007 academic year the Lions provided player Liam Court to coach twice weekly training sessions for students who played basketball with the view to a team playing in leagues and cups, however games were never organized much to the disappointment of coach Liam Court and player's alike.

Trophies

Cups

SESSA Cup 2008/2009, 2009/2010

British Colleges Cup, Runners up 2008/2009

League

SESSA Division 1 Champions 2008/2009 season (undefeated)

British Colleges Elite League Runners up 2008/2009

Playoffs

British Colleges Playoffs, Final Fours 2008/2009, 2009/2010

Notes

External links

• Official Milton Keynes Lions website
• Official Milton Keynes College website