Description Cockburn will become the first team across the NBL1 competition to adopt a new name in recognition of First Nations Round in the NBL1 West this week, becoming the Beeliar Boodjar Cougars.
In recognition of NAIDOC Week, the Cockburn Basketball Association will be acknowledged and paying respect to the traditional owners by becoming the Beelier Boodjar Cougars with that name to be used in all instances for this week’s double-header away to the Willetton Tigers and at home to the Goldfields Giants.
The City of Cockburn’s traditional owners are the Beeliar Nyungar people, who are one of the clans of the Whadjuk so the name change is in respect to them. Beeliar Boodjar literally means ‘river country’.