Applications are on our website www.gardencitybasketball.org

or you may signup online.

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.

Our goal is simply to have a great program that is our version of fun for children. Our teams have equal playing time with no tension and no pressure.

The regular intramural game day season is expected to start Saturday, December 5th and run through March 2010.

Our registration fee is still $50.

The Garden City Basketball intramural program is held in the St. Paul's Field House. We offer:

• Saturday and Weeknight Clinics for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade Boys & Girls. Our nationally recognized clinic uses 8ft baskets as recommended by professionals. If a second grader would like to "play-up" on a 3rd/4th grade intramural team we always have made this accommodation.

• Boys intramurals games for teams in the 3rd through the 6th grade (teams are formed in late November.

• Girls intramurals games for the 3rd through the 7th grade (3rd and 4th grade teams formed in late Nov

• Boys intramural "Friday Night Lights" for the 7th through the 10th grade

• Boys & Girls 3rd Grade and higher weeknight clinics

• A variety of special activities like the JrNBA Skills Challenge, NBA Nation, and NBA Cares events (the NBA Nation clinic was last Saturday at the South Street Seaport

"Friday Night Lights - Streetball" is our Boys 7th/8th/9th/10th Grade program that is held in town on Friday Nights. The older boys have now enjoyed 9 years of pick-up with Island Garden refs and Coach Skramko at Stewart school. Playing hoops the way they want to play. All of our other programs have their games on Saturday.

The quality of 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 utilize AAU/Island Garden Instructors. Guest appearances of college players, players from Christ the King, Chaminade, and Garden City High School players have added to the caliber of our sessions.

Looking for summer clinics, camps and extra training to improve your game? Check out our website. The George Bruns camp at the Island Garden looks to be very exciting!

If there are any questions, please contact John Skramko at jskramko@optonline.net or 746-9659.