HE'S GOT the moves on the basketball court and it's now a given Clifton Bush III is no pushover in the netball arena.
It's just a pity the 13-year-old from Tamatea Intermediate won't be able to nurture his skills in the predominantly female code after his school's netball team finished 28th yesterday during the annual NZCT Aims Games campaign in Tauranga.
"I'll definitely have some fond memories of netball," said a perky Bush who is the son of former Hawks basketballer Clifton Bush II and Christina, of Napier.
Bush III, who is a versatile guard in the Bay U15 rep team his father and Jordan Pomana coach, got into the Aims netball team when the school pulled the plug on taking a basketball team about two months before the tourney.
"[Teachers] Mr Dean Quate and and Miss Scott said we couldn't afford to take another team and [also] there was no one to coach us," said Bush, whose father only last week quit as Basketball HB development officer to return to the Inland Revenue Department where he was part of a mass redundancy on this day in 2012.