Robbie Peers, Head Coach of the Chester Jets, has been rewarded for his team’s three
winners’ medals so far this season by being voted the BBL Coach of the Year for 2001/02.

Thanks to votes cast by the basketball media, Peers wins the award just ahead of Brighton Bears’ play-caller Nick Nurse, who is the runner-up.

Peers will lead his team onto court at Wembley Arena on Saturday 27th April for the prestigious BBL Championship Final, having already won the ntl:home National Cup, BBL Trophy and Northern Conference title. 

If the Championship can be added to Jets’ already impressive haul of silverware, Chester Jets will become only the second team ever and the first since 1992 (Kingston) to do the clean sweep of all domestic honours.

Jets have suffered fewer defeats than any other BBL outfit this season, hence their success.  They won 24 of their 32 BBL Championship games so far this season, thus
earning them a bye to last Sunday’s play-off semi-finals. Jets also won four ntl:home National Cup games and eight BBL Trophy games, bringing their tally to 37 successes in all competitions so far this season.

Jets have also suffered with injuries from time to time this season and only two of their eight defeats this season occurred when they started and finished the game with their first choice starting five on court.

Indeed, Jets have relied on their starting five almost exclusively this season. Pero Cameron, Calvin Davis, James Hamilton, John McCord and John Thomas have been the mainstay of the Jets’ success so far and four of those five players made the BBL All Star Game earlier in the season, courtesy of their impressive statistics.

Three of them were also voted onto the All-League Team for 2001/02, with John Thomas voted the BBL Player of the Year, Calvin Davis as the third-placed player in the All Star Team and John McCord ranked sixth. 

Runner-up Nurse, took over the reins at Brighton Bears last summer, taking on
the coaching of the team as well as general manager duties and part-ownership of the
franchise. 

He has turned a bottom-of-the-table club into a serious contender for silverware this season. Bears finished the season as Southern Conference runners-up and made it to the semi-finals of the play-offs, where they were knocked out by Chester last Sunday.

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