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General Announcement
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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. We are already looking forward to the 2010-2011 season!
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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! For the Summer don't forget to check out www.islandgarden.com (the Bruns camp is a good one)(link at left), www.longislandbasketball.com (link also on the left) for summer leagues and instruction.
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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 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 took 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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2010/2011 Season
Registration is Open
Click Here to REGISTER ONLINE or print an application
Welcome to Garden City Basketball !
We
believe that Garden City Basketball
has the vision, volunteers and dedicated coaches, and sets the
highest standard for youth basketball in the
village
of
Garden City
.
Make sure you choose the
right program…Garden City
Basketball…
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.
Garden
City Basketball is 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
Garden City Basketball intramural
program is held in the
St. Paul
's Field House. We
offer:
ü
Clinics for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd
grade Boys & Girls
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Boys skills instruction-practices-games for the 3rd
through the 6th grade
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Girls skills instruction-practices-games for the 3rd
through the 7th grade
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Boys intramural “Friday Night Lights” for the 7th
through the 12th grade
ü
and a variety of special events
Our intramural program runs from early December through early
March.
“Friday Night Lights - Streetball” is our Boys 7th
thru 12th Grade program that is held at
Stewart
School
on Friday Nights. This
is the longest running program of its kind in our Village.
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 a program that
combines skills & drills instruction, practices, and games 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.
We
are the FIRST and ONLY
local basketball program that:
ü
is a member of the AAU, the
Jr.NBA, and the Jr.WNBA
ü
provides the capability to register online
ü
has invested in a website that sets us apart from all other
basketball programs
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hosts Jr.NBA/Jr WNBA Skills
Challenge, NBA FIT, and iHoops events
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has had numerous coaches that have received regional
recognition of excellence by the Jr.NBA/Jr.WNBA
ü
entered the Jr.NBA/Jr.WNBA S.T.A.R.
(Sportsmanship, Teamwork, Attitude, and Respect) essay contest.
A program of NBA Cares.
ü
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
We
welcome open discussions with our participants.
As we do each season, we will hold at least two open
forums and we are always accessible for the residents of our
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 K-1-2 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
Island
Garden
to launch their website
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Graphic for the Long Island Basketball to launch their
website
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Graphic for the Jr.NBA/Jr.WNBA to launch their site and
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Graphics for Fundamental Sports Training and the
Professional
Athletic
Performance
Center
websites for specialized training
We
hope that you will join the best basketball program in town.
We look forward to yet another great season.
Our registration fee is $75.
Sign-up TODAY!
If
there are any questions please contact John Skramko at jskramko@optonline.net
or call 746-9659.
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