 John Gardiner, a Western Australian basketball great, coached over 550 games in the SBL for the Perry Lakes Hawks.Gardiner, who started coaching with the Hawks in 1982, coached the men's team from the inception of the SBL until the conclusion of the 2008 season when he retired.Some of Gardiner's most notable achievements as a Hawks coach include guiding the men to their first championship in 1994, and then putting together four successive titles from 2001 to 2004, making the Hawks men one of the most successful programs in the history of the SBL.