About Us
Our mission is to teach, promote and instill confidence in youth athletes while learning how the fundamentals of basketball develop into advanced skills all while engaging the values of teamwork, discipline, character, respect and sportsmanship.
Goals and Objectives
- Offer a program that will meet and match the developing skills of each player
- Coordinate the skills taught through training offered by our partnership with OST into tangible opportunities on the court
- Demonstrate the ability to perform team offensive and defensive skills and strategies
- Understand and apply the knowledge of the basic rules of basketball
- Demonstrate proper etiquette and respect for the game as it concerns relationship with teammates, fans, opposing team and officiating
- Develop the confidence of the athletes to promote a healthy and balanced assertion of their talent
- Compete in local and regional tournaments based on skill of the team
- Offer a safe environment of equity and inclusion
- Seek opportunities for community outreach
Our Guiding Principle
To compete within a culture that promotes self confidence, passion, integrity, dignity,
respect, hard-work, grit and the understanding of the balance of the different physical
and emotional qualities it takes to become a complete basketball player.
Additional Notes: Although there is not nearly enough time to cover ALL the needs required to be an elite
basketball player within the confines of our practices, it is encouraged to watch and
interpret basketball opportunities whether on TV or in-person. A healthy dose of GOOD
basketball can offer additional understanding. We encourage players to follow the
practices of the S.M.A.R.T system
Just like anything in life, setting goals is important to your basketball
success. S.M.A.R.T. is an acronym for the five important elements in goal setting. Learn
about how to create your own S.M.A.R.T. goals for on and off the basketball court.
S.M.A.R.T.
S: Specific
- Specific goals are well-defined and have a focus.
- Example of a specific goal: “Improve made free throw percentage” The specifics of this goal allow the athlete to focus on drills and activities to help achieve the goal.
- Not a specific goal: “I want to become a better basketball player” This goal is very vague and doesn’t give the athlete the ability to setup a plan.
M: Measurable
- Along with having a specific focus a goal also needs to be measurable. This will help the athlete see progress and results.
- Adding a measurable to the Current Goal: “Improve made free throw shooting percentage from 25% to 35%.” Adding a measurable allows the athlete to count made free throws to provide an overall percentage. This will help track the progress of the goal over time.
A: Achievable
- The goal needs to be achievable by the athlete. Setting a goal of 100% free throw percentage is not an achievable goal. The best ever recorded free throw percentage by a professional basketball player was 98% in a season, so 100% is an example of an impossible goal.
- Work in steps. If the athlete is a poor free throw shooter, start small grow the percentage over time. Make the goal achievable!
- Depending on the athlete’s ability the goal “Improve made free throw percentage from 25% to 35%” is an achievable goal.
R: Relevant
- Is this goal important to improving your game? Are you passionate about achieving this goal?
- Basketball players need to choose goals that will self-motivate them and that will help impact their game.
- Using the above goal as an example, improving made free throw percentage is a relevant goal as free throws can be the deciding factor in the outcome of a game. The free throw is the only opportunity in basketball where the defense cannot interfere, allowing the athlete to take full control of the ability to score, making a goal to improve free throw percentage a great goal to have.
T: Timely
- A goal needs to have a timetable for increased odds of completion. Without a timeline the goal might be forgotten about or take longer than needed to accomplish.
- Continuing our free throw percentage example a goal with a time-bound addition would look like this “Improve made free throw percentage from 25% to 35% by the end of 90 days.
- Now the athlete has a time table and can easily setup small goals to see progress within that larger goal.