If the Castres club no longer flirts with the elite of French basketball, it has retained its quality of training young people who have performed well this weekend.
If the meetings no longer take place on the Place Jean Jaurès or under the Halle aux grains, the enthusiasm around Castres basketball is still the same as that which animated the players at the time when the clubs were called Castres Cheminots Sport or Bouscasse Athlétique Castrais. Over the years, the names have changed, the level too. Now CBC, the basketball club of the sub-prefecture no longer gravitates in the same spheres as those it frequented following the arrival of Max Noël, the first international to play in Castres, or Pierre Sagna who will participate in the rise in National 2. But what has not changed in the ranks of the Castres basketball club is the quality of the training of young players. Since the mini-basketball launched by Roger Marty in 1970, Castres basketball has always been able to make its young people shine, as evidenced by the success of the generation born in 69-70, for example. Pyrenees champion titles from chicks to cadets consecutively, a semi-final of the French cup against Hornaing but also two finals of the French school championship against Roanne and Charleville-Mézières, all under the guidance of Alain Blavy ( the iconic coach of the CBC basketball school of the 80s-90s). And what about Daniel Dos Anjos, Emmanuel Raynaud, Cyril Julian, Cédric Bertorelle, Philippe Auriol, Jean Claude Arevalo, Rémy Brunel, William Togbedji, Jean Philippe Méthélie, Lucien Legrand or even Florent Dechaumet who, as players or technicians, will know the top level after their adventures in Castres. So many glorious veterans of which the young people who participated in the departmental finals this weekend are the worthy heirs. Finalists in the Tarn Cup in four categories, the Castres managed the feat of bringing back three gold medals. Winner of Albi in U13 and U17 men, Castres Basket Club also dominated Rabastens in U15 women. A nice balance sheet which comes to garnish a little more the window with the trophies of a club which can therefore be proud of its past and serene about its future.
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