The Basildon Alstarz Club was the original name of the Basildon Skater Hockey Club, before it split into Titans and Basildon Inline Skater Hockey clubs. When the club was formed it consisted of the Alstarz Senior and Junior teams, but with the addition of the Titans from the then Central London League, it was decided to rename the club the Basildon Skater Hockey club.
The original senior team did not last for long, and the team members went their separate ways, some to play ice hockey, some to other teams and some just stopped playing altogether.

In 1997, it was decided that the Basildon Club could support two senior teams, and we made a second attempt at Alstarz Seniors, with Lesley McCartney as manager. Mark Morgan, one of the original Alstarz, returned from Titans, together with Jae Paxman, Geoff Keily and Michael Hilton, now seniors from the successful Junior Alstarz team. As well as all our home grown talent, we recruited Peter (Pab) Boucher, John Bailey and Clement Darkwah from the Enforcers, Steve Jones, Terry Brien and Matt Jackson from Havering Hawks and Kenny Warren from the London Vikings. The Captain and seasoned coach of the team was Leon Russell, ex Enforcers and Titans. Together with Michael McCartney and Matt Mountain playing age option from the juniors, the team was completed by the addition of Nicky Carter returning from a spell in ice hockey.

The new team finished the season in second place, no mean feat for a newly formed team. They went on to compete in the Nationals, but unfortunately the team did not live up to it’s earlier promise and finished in eighth position, although they finished a highly creditable 3^rd in the 1998 Danielle Carter Memorial Tournament.
The team disbanded after the Nationals, due mainly to personality conflict among the players.

During 1999, plans were laid for a third attempt at an Alstarz Seniors, this time managed by Keily Allen, coached by Jamie Cross, formerly from Havering Panthers, and Loz Blackwood coach of the club youth team. The start of the 2000 season saw the team firmly in place with many of the 1997/98 players returning to play for the new style team. With the addition of JohnTarget, and then Gareth Hall from the SESHA team ,Raiders, and several of the Junior Alstarz very talented players, the new team became a force to be reckoned with. Again, the team finished 3^rd in the 2000 Danielle Carter Tournament, and came 4^th in the John Spight Memorial Tournament, having beaten well established teams such as the Warriors and the Raiders in the competition, and being narrowly beaten into 4th place by Leasowes Sharks.

The team underwent some management changes, with Keily Allen being replaced firstly with Alan Target and Fam Jeffries as joint managers, and then Karen Hilton and finally Phil Makin, ex Bulldogs manager. The team goes through managers like a hot knife through butter!!. Loz Blackwood has taken a back seat from coaching to concentrate on the Basildon Bulldogs.

At the end of the 2000 season the team was boosted by several of their players being included in the GB Senior team travelling to Menden to play friendlies against Germany during the Womens European Championships. This included the teams Captain, Matt Jackson being named as GB Captain for the games.

The team qualified for the 2000 Nationals, but the old Alstarz magic of team members being their own worst enemies struck again! The team was already short handed as most of their Junior players declined to come to the Senior Nationals, after the upset of the rained-off junior ones.After a good start against KSF, the team went on to lose badly against Maulers and eventually ended up coming last. At this point the team took stock of themselves and decided that if they ever wanted to be a team to be reckoned with, they needed radical ideas.

One of the better ideas was to enlist the help of Hugh Jones, who they’d asked during the luckless final day what he thought the team needed. To their surprise, Hugh agreed to coach them for the forthcoming season.

With the help of Hugh, the team have high hopes for the 2001 season.