Swoosh Basketball Club was founded by Ahmad Salman Othman &
Jumali Changi back in 1995 based in USJ Subang Jaya Good Year Court
basketball court. Salman had invited ex-PPP UiTM American Degree program
individuals to join the club. Basically it started with working individuals
who loved basketball for the sake of basketball alone as a hobby. The first
Swoosh official game was the 3 on 3 tournament organized in Klang in 1996.
At that time Swoosh was not much of a full court competitor. Swoosh became
champs of 3 on 3 in Sungai Pelek (Sepang) & runners up in Kajang 1996.
Swoosh had difficulties perfoming in full court tournaments due to the many
strong teams at that time such as Spiders, UiTM Phantoms, Rebels, Gusmackers,
Gargoyles, etc. Swoosh was actually known as a "team sayur" at that time.
Swoosh then invited ex-Gargoyles and ex-UiTM Phantoms players to join the
club and became runners up of YDP MPSA Cup in 1999 losing to Storm who had a
6 feet 8 inches import from the USA. Swoosh came in 3rd in it's first
appearance of K.L. Open tournament in 1999 and came in 4th place in year
2000. Swoosh improved it's performance by participating in various yearly
open and invitation tournaments such as Rawang Invitation, Sungai Pelek (Sepang)
Open, Port Dickson Invitation, Sultan Selangor Cup, etc. As long as there's
a tournament, Swoosh will try it's best to participate. It doesn't matter if
we get our asses kicked as long as we learn, gain valuable knowledge and
improve on our performance. Swoosh became champions of Selangor MB Cup 2001.
For 2002, Swoosh will try to send in 2 teams to all the tournaments coming.
Swoosh 1 is still made up of loyal players from team champions MB Cup 2001
except for 2 players who have gone over to "Cons" & "Asura". Swoosh 2
consist mostly of ex-Storm members. In short, Swoosh in whole now is made up
of original Swoosh members, ex-members from Spiders, Gusmackers, Gargoyles,
Storm, etc.
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