Back in February we visited Southend to see the AASE Basketball apprentices in action at a training camp and get some footage for the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence Video that we produced for National Apprenticeships Week. Now the AASE basketballers will be basking in the limelight of even more coverage, this time on Sky Sports.

The Extra Time programme visited Southend in June to take in a GB U20 warm up match for July’s U20 European Championships, covering a local school sports basketball competition coached and refereed by AASE players prior to the international game, as well as capturing exclusive interviews with the GB Team’s U20 coach Tim Lewis, and AASE coordinator for Essex Ian Mollard.

You can see the programme on Sky Sports 1 on Monday 17 August at 5pm, with repeats at 7pm on Sky Sports 3 later that day and 1pm (SS3) and 2.30pm (SS2) on Tuesday 18 August. We’ve had a sneak preview, and it is a fantastic feature on the AASE programme and how it is benefiting British Basketball, so watch out for it. If you do miss it, we hope to be able to bring you the footage here on the SkillsActive blog afterwards.

You can see some of the AASE basketball players in action and interviewed in February’s video below, around the 3:50 mark:

Following the video we made about the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence, we’ve now got even more video content available on our main website covering each type of apprenticeship that we’re involved in. So now if you visit our Apprenticeships section on our website you’ll find videos on the Young Apprenticeship scheme and the Apprenticeship in Active Leisure and Learning, including videos covering the Advanced Apprenticeships in Coaching, Fitness and the Outdoors.

The videos feature both employers and students talking about the schemes and the benefits that apprenticeships have to offer.

We’ve also uploaded a number of our older videos on the Advanced Apprenticeship in Sporting Excellence to complement the one we made back in February, and you can see these below:

Hopefully these video’s will help prospective employers and students understand the different apprenticeship schemes and how they offer an innovative work based education experience. For more information on all our apprenticeship schemes, visit the apprenticeship pages of our website.