GCAA will be hosting try outs for Travel Basketball. The teams will play in the highly competitive Island Garden League. You do not need to try out if you have any interest solely in playing GCAA intramurals. In that case, just fill out the GCAA application. The intramural application can be downloaded from the GCAA website www.gc-aa.com and then clicking on the basketball link. In order to be eligible for the travel try out, all players must be pre-registered for intramurals and they must pre-register for the try out via email with the applicable contact listed below. Once a player pre-registers, the player will be given the final time and location of the try out. The fee for the Island Garden travel season, which starts in mid November and runs thru March, will be approximately $375 per player which includes participation in GCAA intramurals. Any intramural fee paid in advance will be credited towards the $375 travel fee. If a child can use last year's GCAA travel uniform, the fee will be $325 per player. Please note the travel program is not an introductory program as our teams will play the best basketball teams from around the New York region. GCAA Travel typically works around other in season sports when scheduling try outs, plans around Middle School and CYO conflicts during the basketball season and ensures there are no scheduling conflict between travel and intramural games.

Most grades will conduct a one night try out although a few grades (3rd Grade Boys and 4th Grade Girls) will plan for 2 nights. A player must attend both nights for those grades with a two day try out process.

The contacts for each grade are listed below. The contacts listed may not be the coach in the grade. Please pre-register in your applicable grade. The current plan is to hold try outs the week of Sept 28th and the week of Oct 5th. Please look for more details in next week's GC News and the GCAA website about times and locations of try outs. When pre-registering, please note the grade of your child in email.

8th Grade Boys- Scott Paskewitz scottpask5@hotmail.com

7th Grade Boys- Tom Granville granvill@whitneycap.com

6th Grade Boys- Joe Capetola Jcapetola@mscklaw.com

5th Grade Boys- John Gibbons gib60@hotmail.com

4rd Grade Boys- Tom Granville granvill@whitneycap.com

3rd Grade Boys- Tom Granville granvill@whitneycap.com

8th Grade Girls- Dan Dignam dignamfam@optonline.net

7th Grade- Greg Raphael gjraphael@aol.com

6th Grade Girls- Ryan Kelly ryan.kelly@netwolves.com

5th Grade Girls- John Lori john.d.lori@ustrust.com

4th Grade Girls- Dan Dignam dignamfam@optonline.net

Should you have any questions regarding GCAA Travel Basketball, please email Tom Granville at granvill@whitneycap.com