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. Teams will play an 18 game season typically starting in mid Novemeber and ending in mid March 2010. Teams will generally practice once a week. GCAA typically puts together two teams per grade subject to adequate demand and available coaching.

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 and note the age of the player when you register in your email. The times and dates of the try outs are listed below.

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

The Try Out Dates and Times will be as follows:

3rd Grade Boys Tues Sept 29th 6:00-7:30 and Thursday October 1st 6:00-8:00 at St. Paul’s

4th Grade Boys Mon Oct 5th 6:00-7:45 at St. Paul’s

5th Grade Boys Wed Oct 7th 6:00-7:45 at St. Paul’s

6th Grade Boys Mon Oct 5th 7:30-9:00 at St. Paul’s

7th Grade Boys Tues Sept 29th 7:30-9:00 at St. Paul’s

8th Grade Boys Tues Sept 29th 7:45-9:00 at St. Paul’s

4th Grade Girls Tues Oct 6th 6:00-8:00PM and Thurs Oct 8th 6:00-7:30 if required at St. Paul’s

5th Grade Girls Wed Oct 7th 6:00-7:45 at St. Paul’s

6th Grade Girls Mon Oct 5th 6:00-7:30 at St. Paul’s

7th Grade Girls Tues Oct 6th 7:30-9:00 at St. Paul’s

8th Grade Girls Mon Oct 5th 7:30-9:00 at St. Paul’s