We hope that you have had a fun and relaxing summer! Visit www.gardencitybasketball.org to sign-up online for the 2008-2009 season.

This season, Garden City Basketball returns to Saturday MORNINGS at the St Paul's fieldhouse.

The current/tentative plan is to have:

*the K-1st-2nd grade clinic 8:00am - 9:30am

*Girls 3rd-6th Grade teams 9:30am - 11:00am

*Boys 3rd & 4th Grade teams 11:00am - noon

*Boys 5th & 6th Grade teams Noon - 1:00pm

*and our Boys 7th - 10th Grade league will be on Friday Nights

The regular intramural game day season is expected to start Saturday, December 6th and run through March 2009. In addition, we expect to have at least one clinic of skills & drills for each age group during the week at night in November. These clinics continue throughout the season.

The weeknight clinics held by Garden City Basketball are some of the best that you will find. The focus at our clinics is on skills, drills, development, and fun. We held at least 6 clinics for each of our 3rd grade through 7th grade participants (that's NINE hours of instruction) last season. 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. For our weeknight clinics, we were fortunate to have AAU/Island Garden Instructors, Brian Huber from FST, the starting forward from Christ the King, and Garden City High School players adding to the caliber of our sessions. This season the Chaminade JV Coach and one his assistants are being added to our list of intramural instructors.

Our $50 fee remains the same. Our organization doesn't believe in charging a late fee. However, we are ordering uniforms in October and teams are formed in November, so please help our planning by registering now. Garden City Basketball will continue to accept late registrations and we will always work to accommodate these participants. The recreation department does allocate space based upon enrollment, signing up now makes sure you are counted.

It goes without saying, volunteers are always needed. If you would like to help in any way...just let us know and we'll get you into the mix. Everyone appreciates the coaches but it is the parents that help setup, bring the coffee, take down the banners, provide assistance to participants, and more that also makes Garden City Basketball a great program.

We believe that Garden City Basketball has the vision, dedication, and sets the standard for youth basketball in the village of Garden City.

Please visit www.gardencitybasketball.org to obtain more information on our program. REGISTER TODAY ! !

We look forward to you and your child being a part of our program. If there are any questions please email jskramko@optonline.net or call 746-9659.