Bathurst hosted the basketball program's orientation day on Saturday, followed by the first on-court session of the season on Sunday.

While there's 60 basketballers in the program for 2021-22, not all were in attendance, with some away at a Basketball NSW high performance trials.

For those in attendance - and they came from all over the region including Bathurst, Orange, Dubbo, Lithgow, Young and Gilgandra - head coach Adam Marjoram was pleased with what he saw across the two days.

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"We started on Saturday with the orientation, with testing and a speed and agility course with Roger Fabri, one of Australia's best speed and agility coaches. The game we play now is fast and what we need is fast athletes," he said.

"On Sunday, we rolled into our first on court session as a group. We've got some of our kids away because of Basketball NSW high performance trials but we're trying to see where everyone is at after COVID-19, that there happy, healthy and enjoying playing basketball again."

Marjoram said it's great that basketballers can be out and about again after being in lockdown on and off for the past year and a half.

"That's the most important thing, getting them back out, on court, making them better and making sure they're having fun because it's been tough," he said.

"We've had more then 12 months of this on and off, stop start. They seem to be enjoying it and ready to go.

"We've got some talent right across the board with the girls and boys program. We've got graduates and seniors that have potential to be state players.

"It's about fine tuning their fundamental skill sets and making sure they understand their style of play. I think a few will push for state selection next year."

WRAS currently offers programs for Australian rules football, cycling, golf, hockey, netball, triathlon and para sports, as well as basketball.

With 60 athletes, the basketball program is one of the largest but it can be a challenge to get all the players at the one place at the one time because of how far across the region the talent is spread.

"We definitely be one of the biggest programs," Marjoram said.

"We've got 60 athletes this year, so getting them all on the court at the one time is a bit challenging."

Marjoram is aided by a number of assistant coaches and apprentice coaches, including Bathurst's Jessica McGrath (assistant coach) and Jade Windle (apprentice coach).

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