Sardi was in the city to run a trial for Central West kids to be selected into a talented athlete camp in Sydney but was able to run a separate coaching session for Western Regional Academy of Sport and Bathurst Goldminers representatives.

It's great timing for the city's players who are preparing for a home round of Western Junior League basketball matches next weekend.

The stars aligned perfectly for Sardi to be able to conduct his clinic.

"We have our talented athlete program trials for under 14s, and there are six of those around the state and Bathurst is one of them. Rach [Murray] and Adam [Marjoram] then asked me to do some stuff with the Western Regional Academy of Sport kids," he said.

"The academy have an MoU with BNSW, and it's part of my development program to work with them when I can on our visits. They're our second tier kids across the state, and there's 11 of those academies around the state.

"Because I'm here, in the right time and place, we wanted to put something on so we're able to do something for those kids and coaches."

Sardi said he would love to see many players at Sunday's camp rise to the occasion and take the next step in their development.

"We have two tiers. There's the SPP - the State Performance Program - and then the academy of sport. The athletes who don't make the SPP go to their academy trials. The whole idea is to set the foundation for them to come up," he said.

"It's good to see there's a couple of kids here who are in the SPP or have been across the last 12 to 18 months."

Goldminers coach Murray said it was wonderful to have the region's players get valuable mentoring.

"He did a coaching clinic last night for us before the trials for our under 14s kids and then we put together a session this afternoon for us 16s and 18s," she said.

"That first round of WJL was a chance for coaches to see what their teams need to improve on. Having things like this, with someone like Curtis, lets us develop those skills."