The registration fee for Garden City Basketball is still $50. NO LATE FEES. Uniforms for our full program have been ordered.

Applications for Garden City Basketball are available on our website www.gardencitybasketball.org or you may signup online.

Our first FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS session for Boys 7th Grade and higher will be Friday November 6th at 7:00pm at Stewart School.

We are about to schedule our annual trip to the Professional Athletic Performance Center for our participants in Grades 2 through 6. A specialized clinic for Speed, Agility and Quickness is free to our participants who are registered for our program. Please select the PAPC icon/link on our website for more information on this excellent part of our program.

We have proud to have been selected for an NBA FIT event which is a FREE event that is open to everyone who would like to attend. The NBA FIT event is scheduled for Friday November 13th at 7pm at Stewart School. The NBA FIT event is similar to “punt pass and kick” for football and the “pitch hit and run” events for baseball. The NBA FIT event sponsored by Singular consists of five challenges (jump rope, defensive shuffle, line sprints, passing, ball handling) where a contestant has 30 seconds to perform the activity. A point system (number of times you jump rope in 30 seconds) determines the winner. If your time is a good one... you may qualify for a regional then national competition.

The regular intramural game day season is expected to start Saturday, December 5th and run through March 6th, 2010.

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 for the game of basketball will be nurtured and developed.

Garden City Basketball is a proud member of the JrNBA/JrWNBA, iHoops, and the AAU, respected national youth sports organizations, and our program follows their rules, policies, and procedures.

The Garden City Basketball intramural program is held in the St. Paul’s Field House. Space and time allocations have NOT yet been made by the village. We believe our start time to be NOON for the clinic, followed by (1:30pm) girls 3rd grade and higher, and closing with (2:30pm) boys 3rd grade - 6th grade.

Our programs:

• Saturday clinics for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grade Boys & Girls. Our nationally recognized clinic uses 8ft baskets and stations of different foundational skills & drills. Professionals recommend staying at a lower basket as not to create poor shooting mechanics in younger players. Basket height at a young age needs to be set for all players not for the limited few who can use the higher basket. 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 & 4th grade and 5th & 6th grade

• Girls intramurals games for the 3rd & 4th grade and 5th grade and higher

• Boys & Girls 3rd Grade and higher weeknight clinics.

• Boys intramural “Friday Night Lights” for the 7th & 8th and 9th & 10th grade. “Friday Night Lights - Streetball” is for Boys 7th thru 10th Grade and held on Friday night at Stewart School. This is the longest running program of its type for this age group in the village and many of the older boys have enjoyed 9 years of pick-up basketball with Island Garden refs and Coach Skramko. This program was originally formed 9 years ago as an “anti-drug and alcohol” alternative. There were teams, uniforms and formal games. The offering has evolved over the years to what it is today. A relaxed format where teenage boys play lots of basketball the way they want to play. Last season the boys generally played about 90 minutes of hoops followed by half court “knock out”. All other clinics and games offered by Garden City Basketball are scheduled on Saturday.

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.

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