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General Announcement
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2009 - 2010 Winter Season Schedule
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Friday Night Lights Boys 7th and higher at Stewart had a lot of fun at our annual march madness pizza party. We have ADDED Friday March 12th due to bad weather on other fridays. Our Saturday program has completed another season!! The Garden City Basketball program has enjoyed tremendous support and has provided instruction to 400-600 children each season. Garden City Basketball is a proud member of the JrNBA/JrWNBA, iHoops, and the AAU, respected national youth sports organizations, and our program follows their rules, policies, and procedures. Our program uses the same reversible dazzle cloth jersey for all teams so that we may move players even during a game to ensure everyone has a fun time. Our goal is simply to have a great program that is our version of fun for children. Our participants are provided equal playing time with no tension and no pressure.
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Weeknight Clinic Info
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This season we made available almost 20 hours of instruction to our Boys and Girls in the 3rd through 6th Grade. The focus on fundamentals of instruction at Garden City Basketball is second to none. A big that you to the coaches from Chaminade (Greg Deverna et al) and former players from Christ the King that have helped to run these events!
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NBA FIT
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Congratulations to Brandon Pizzingrillo for his 2nd place finish (boys 8 and under) in the NYC Regional NBA FIT competition. Kyle Skramko won the NYC Regional (boys 13-14) and we are proud to say is one of two boys that qualified for the NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP to be held in Dallas February 12th-15th during the NBA ALL STAR Weekend! NBA Fit is sponsored by SINGULAIR. The NBA FIT/ WNBA FIT Challenge is free for boys and girls ages 14 and under, and encourages participants to maintain healthy, active lifestyles. The competition offers more than 100,000 youngsters the chance to demonstrate their physical fitness through a time-based fitness course that includes line sprints, jump rope, speed revolutions, wall passes, and defensive shuffles. The challenge tests participants’ speed, strength, agility, and overall physical fitness. Local competitions take place nationwide from September through November and regional competitions ran through January 2010 in all NBA Markets and (5) D-League markets.
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2008/2009
Season Registration Open
Click
Here to REGISTER ONLINE or print an application
Welcome to Garden City
Basketball !
We
believe that Garden City Basketball
has the vision, dedication, and sets the standard for youth
basketball in the village of Garden City.
Make sure you choose the
right program…Garden City
Basketball…
The
birth of Garden City Basketball
has created an organization solely focused on basketball.
We have raised the bar and have injected activity, effort,
and excitement for the sport of youth basketball in the village.
Garden
City Basketball has one of the largest programs in the
village. However, our
goal is NOT to be the largest.
Our goal is simply to have a great program that is our
version of fun for children.
The
focus of Garden City Basketball
is our intramural program.
Our greater mission is to provide a wonderful experience for
all of our participants so that a love of the life long game of
basketball will be nurtured and grow.
The
Garden City Basketball intramural
program is held in the St. Paul's Field House.
We offer:
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Clinics for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd
grade Boys & Girls
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Boys intramurals for the 3rd through the 6th
grade
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Girls intramurals for the 3rd through the 7th
grade
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Boys intramural “Friday Night Lights” for the 7th
through the 10th grade
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Boys & Girls 3rd Grade and higher weeknight
clinics
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and a variety of special events
Our intramural program runs from the middle of November and
through the middle of March. “Friday
Night Lights - Streetball” is our Boys 7th/8th/9th/10th
Grade program that is held at Stewart School on Friday Nights.
All of our other programs have their games on Saturday.
Skill development is important and Garden
City Basketball has some of the best clinics that you can
find. Our Saturday
clinic for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd
Grader’s is highly regarded by professionals and we are proud to
announce is a model for other programs around the country.
For the 3rd grade and higher, we provide grade based
weeknight clinics that are run by our dedicated volunteer coaches
and are supplemented with paid expert instructors. Last season, we held at least 6 clinics for each of our 3rd
grade through 7th grade participants (that's NINE
hours of instruction for each player). Our K-1-2 clinic
supplied over THIRTY hours of instruction!
We believe that Garden City
Basketball is second to none in the quality and amount of
training we fairly allocate to our participants.
We
have established special
training for “Speed, Agility, and Quickness” led by experts
at the Professional Athletic Performance
Center. The
training at this facility is used by the Garden City High School
Athletic Department, other local public schools, the Islanders, and
local colleges. A
special conditioning program built for Garden
City Basketball is focused on children 8 years old and
higher. Experts from
the Professional Athletic Performance Center provide instruction at
their state-of-the-art facility located in Garden City and at St.
Paul’s. In addition,
we are also pleased to be able to provide coaches clinics focused on
injury prevention from
this top flight organization.
Our travel program goal
is to provide a venue where a small percentage of participants may
play at a higher level. Each
season, we will sponsor a number of travel teams.
In order to consider having a travel team for a given
grade/gender; our participants must have requested it,
quality/dedicated coaching must be available, and a
functional/viable travel team can be created that will have a
positive experience. Our
travel teams play in the Island Garden Super League during the
winter. If a travel team chooses to do so, there is a spring league
in the Island Garden and summer leagues in Rockville Centre and
Valley Stream that we recommend.
Garden
City Basketball is endorsed by, recommend by, and has
partnered with the Island Garden.
The Island Garden is our nationally respected Amateur
Athletic Union regional entity. We strongly believe in reaching out and building
relationships with other organizations.
We are the FIRST local basketball
program that:
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is a member of the AAU, the
Jr.NBA, and the Jr.WNBA
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provides the capability to register online
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has invested in a website that sets us apart from all
other basketball programs
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has hosted a Jr.NBA/Jr WNBA Skills
Challenge
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has five coaches that have received regional
recognition of excellence by the Jr.NBA/Jr.WNBA
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entered the Jr.NBA/Jr.WNBA S.T.A.R.
(Sportsmanship, Teamwork, Attitude, and Respect) essay contest. A program of NBA Cares.
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has partnered with TWIGS and Adelphi
University to launch “Hoops That Help” charity basketball
for the Child Life program at Winthrop
University Hospital
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provides individual team websites
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is using sponsors to help keep our costs down
We
provide the opportunity for our coaches to attend Mercury
Sports “Hoop School”.
This is the premiere basketball coaches clinic on Long
Island. Instruction is
provided by Division I college coaches and active professional
players.
We
welcome open discussions with our participants. As we did last season, we will hold at least two open
forums and we will be there for the residents of the village.
Surf
the site and check out the:
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“Background” link for additional general information
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“Application” link for safe and secure online
registration or a paper application
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“Clinic” link for the framework of how our clinics are
performed
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“Upcoming Events” link to obtain a quick view of our
calendar of events
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“Teams” link to have an idea how a coach may manage team
communication
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“Travel Program” link for the framework on how we conduct
travel tryouts
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“Basketball Links” for a wealth of basketball focused
websites
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Graphic for the AAU to launch the Amateur Athletic Union
website
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Graphic for the Jr.NBA/Jr.WNBA to launch their site and
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Graphics on the left for the Island Garden, Fundamental
Sports Training, and the Professional Athletic Performance Center
websites
We
hope that you will join the best basketball program in town.
We look forward to yet another great season.
Our registration fee remains at $50.
Sign-up TODAY!
If
there are any questions please contact John Skramko at jskramko@optonline.net
or call 746-9659.
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