East Perth Eagles is an NBL1 West club based in Perth, Western Australia. The club fields a team in both the Men's and Women's NBL1 West. The club is a division of East Perth District Basketball Association (EPDBA), the major administrative basketball organisation in Perth's north eastern suburbs. The Eagles play their home games at Herb Graham Recreation Centre. Club history Background Basketball in East Perth began in 1946 with the formation of the Western Australian Basketball Association. As a founding member of the association, the organisation was originally known as the Youth Catholic Workers (YCW) Highgate Basketball Club. In 1948, they were renamed Highgate Basketball Club. Premiership success eluded Highgate for the first ten years, but in the years afterwards, a total of 35 premierships were won at various levels of Western Australian basketball. In 1956, along with YMCA (Perth), Highgate was a founding member of the Women's Division of the Western Australian Basketball Association. In 1972, Highgate Basketball Club was given the task of combining all local basketball clubs in the East Perth Football Club's broad catchment area to form a 'District' Club. The organisation was subsequently renamed North Eastern Suburbs Basketball Association (NESBA), but later changed the name in 1975 to East Perth District Basketball Association (EPDBA) to more accurately reflect the organisation's origins and the area represented. In the women's District Competition, EPDBA won four consecutive championships between 1977 and 1980. The women's team contested six consecutive grand finals between 1976 and 1981 and fell short of winning their fifth consecutive title by only four points. Meanwhile, the men's team won three District titles in 1980, 1983 and 1988. SBL / NBL1 West Two decades of on-court struggle (1989–2009) 1989 saw the formation of the State Basketball League (SBL) with both a men's and women's competition. East Perth, trading as the Eagles, entered a team into both the Men's SBL and Women's SBL. In the inaugural SBL season, both teams played finals basketball with the men finishing in sixth place with a 12–10 record, while the women finished in fourth place with a 14–7 record. The turn of the decade brought dismal records for the Eagles. Between 1990 and 1999, the women's team failed to set a winning season, finishing under .500 every year. During this time, they went 0–20 in 1993 and 0–24 in 1998, and even sat out the 1996 season. The men's team