Approximately 30% of children and adolescents experience emotional and behavioural problems, with girls exceeding boys in all age categories (Pathak et al., 2011); and there has been a rise in the prevalence of mental illness and maladaptive behaviours in adolescence. To address these growing concerns, this study approached the task of enhancing the social emotional competencies of children through noncompetitive basketball embedded with social skills training. Twelve female students in grade 4 participated in a 5-week program consisting of 10 sessions of noncompetitive basketball embedded with social skills training. Commercially produced surveys were completed before and after the intervention to measure student change in social-emotional competence and to evaluate the program's effectiveness. Analyses of the data revealed positive changes to students' social emotional competence scores, indicating that the intervention program was effective as a means for social skill remediation. A slight increase in the average level of basketball interest was observed across all participants. Furthermore, the program was evaluated positively by teachers enhancing its social acceptability and validity. Positive results from this study may be used in future educational practices to proactively identify and provide preventative support to children and adolescents who experience emotional and behavioural problems and provides current educators and clinicians with an alternative social skill instruction method to the programs currently available.