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 $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 travel 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. See a separate article about the GCAA Intramural program in this edition of the GC News.

Most grades will conduct a one night try out although a few grades (3rd Grade Boys and 4th Grade Girls) may 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.  Try outs will more than likely be week of Sept 27th or week of October 4th. More details on dates and times to follow.

8th Grade Boys-

Tom Granville-

granvill@whitneycap.com

7th Grade Boys-

Joe Capetola- Joseph.Capetola

@cellinoandbarnes.com

6th Grade Boys-

John Gibbons-

gib60@hotmail.com

5th Grade Boys-

Tom Granville-

granvill@whitneycap.com

4th Grade Boys-

John Hammersley 

jhammersley@eclipse.com

3rd Grade Boys-

Scott Paskewitz

scottpask5@hotmail.com

8th Grade Girls-

Dan Dignam-  

dignamfam@optonline.net

7th Grade Girls-

Ryan Kelly     

ryan.kelly@netwolves.com

6th Grade Girls-

John Lori        

john.d.lori@ustrust.com

5th Grade Girls-

Dan Dignam   

dignamfam@optonline.net

4th  Grade Girls-

Tom Granville  

granvill@whitneycap.com

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