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Positive Coaching Alliance

Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) is transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth. Through partnership with more than 1,100 youth sports organizations, leagues, schools and cities nationwide, PCA has conducted 6,000-plus workshops for youth sports coaches, parents, organizational leaders and athletes.

Since Executive Director Jim Thompson founded PCA as a non-profit within the Stanford University Athletic Department in 1998, the organization has helped create a positive, character-building youth sports environment for more than 3 million youth athletes.

In face-to-face group workshops, dynamic PCA Trainers:

• Train youth and high school sports coaches to become a Double-Goal Coach^®, whose first goal is winning, and whose second, more-important goal is teaching life lessons through sports;
• Develop Second-Goal Parents, who focus on helping their youth athletes learn those life lessons;
• Cultivate Triple-Impact Competitors, student athletes who strive to improve themselves, their teammates and their sport as a whole.

PCA gains support from elite coaches and athletes, including Los Angeles Lakers Head Coach Phil Jackson as PCA National Spokesperson. The National Advisory Board comprises such leaders as NBA and NCAA Champion Coach Larry Brown, former senator Bill Bradley, NFL Hall of Fame Member Ronnie Lott, Olympic Gold Medalist swimmer Summer Sanders, Olympic Gold Medal gymnasts Bart Conner and Nadia Comaneci, University of North Carolina Men's Basketball Retired Head Coach Dean Smith, Cy Young Award winner Barry Zito, and Kansas City Chiefs Head Coach Herm Edwards.

Its partners, trainers, workshop attendees, National Advisory Board members and thousands of individuals, foundations and corporations together lead the Positive Coaching movement that is sweeping youth sports in this nation and beyond.

Click here to visit their website.

Advantage Basketball Camps

Advantage Basketball Camps are nationally recognized as one of the top ball handling and shooting camps  in the basketball training industry.   Named by Sports Illustrated Kids as one of the top camps in the country, they utilize a top coaching staff.

Students build on their ball handling skills by learning lightning-quick, one-handed moves off the dribble.  Deploying a strong training methodology and an equally strong reputation, Advantage Basketball Camps are consistently rated as one of the top youth basketball camps in the world. 

Students experience the most intense, fun, invigorating basketball training with Advantage Basketball Camps. These camps are designed to bring out the best in children: increased respect for sportsmanship, enhanced fundamental athletic abilities, and a deeper understanding of teamwork and responsibility. Advantage Basketball Camps also prepares young players, ages 7-18, for high school and college.   Click here to register for a camp today!

 

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Discover the successful coaching methods used at the camps

Meet one of the top coaching staffs in the world

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Mid-America Youth Basketball (MAYB)

MAYB has been organizing and promoting youth basketball tournaments since 1993.What started as one summer tournament with 69 teams has grown into more than 170 summer tournaments involving 3700 teams from at least 27 states and 2 foreign countries. They added a winter season in 2000-01 to accommodate the demand for year round opportunities. In 2004, they started offering a spring schedule to accommodate increased demand. They have tournaments in 22 different states, and continue to expand into new areas. MAYB is now one of the largest organizations of its type in the United States.

Division Programs

Participating teams are set up by the grade level a student/athlete is in during the previous school year, not by their age. This allows many school teams to compete together in the off-season. They offer divisions in the summer for 4th-12th grade boys' and girls' teams. In the winter, they offer divisions for 3rd-8th grade boys and girls, and a high school division for their Winter Finale Tournament and Spring season. All players are eligible to participate. Teams will compete against a wide variety of competition. Their main goal is practice and participation.

MAYB tournaments are fundraising opportunities for each of the individual communities involved. All of their events are locally hosted and sponsored. Unlike many other organizations, their events and proceeds stay in the community.

To visit their website go to www.mayb.com.

Amateur Athletic Union (AAU)

The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is one of the largest, non-profit, volunteer, sports organizations in the United States. A multi-sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs.

The AAU was founded in 1888 to establish standards and uniformity in amateur sport. During its early years the AAU served as a leader in international sport representing the U.S. in the international sports federations. The AAU worked closely with the Olympic movement to prepare athletes for the Olympic games. After the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, the AAU has focused its efforts into providing sports programs for all participants of all ages beginning at the grass roots level. The philosophy of "Sports for All, Forever," is shared by over 500,000 participants and over 50,000 volunteers. The AAU is divided into 56 distinct Districts. These Districts annually sanction more than 34 sports programs, 250 national championships, and over 30,000 age division events.

Programs offered by the AAU include: AAU Sports Program, AAU Junior Olympic Games, AAU James E. Sullivan Memorial Award, and the AAU Complete Athlete Program. In addition, the President's Challenge program is administrated on behalf of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

In 1996, the AAU joined forces with Walt Disney World. Later that year, the AAU relocated its national headquarters to Orlando, Florida. More than 40 AAU national events are conducted at the Disney's Wide World of Sports® Complex. Disney's Wide World of Sports features a double-deck 7,500 -seat baseball stadium and baseball quadraplex, two fieldhouses that accommodates hardwood courts, a softball quadraplex, two youth baseball fields, a track and field complex four multi-purpose performance fields sized for soccer tournaments.

If you are interested in sports participation, the AAU is the place to start.  To join the AAU or to get more information about AAU Basketball go to www.aauboysbasketball.org or to www.aaugirlsbasketball.org. 

National Junior Basketball

National Junior Basketball is a nonprofit organization that was founded by Dennis Murphy, Jr. in 1984. Murphy was previously a coach at Garden Grove High School when he had vision of a youth basketball league based on sportsmanship and player development.

NJB has blossomed into a national youth league with over 25,000 participants in 6 states. The program offers three divisions for boys and girls in first through 12th grade. Clinic division is for 1st and 2nd graders, stressing fundamental skills and personal growth. The High School Program is for 9th through 12th grade players who did not make their high school team.

NJB offers the All-Net Program for the advance players grades 6th - 8th through their chapters. This division prepares the athlete for high school competition.

NJB Mission Statement
To inspire our youth; regardless of race, color, creed, or national origin. To practice the ideals of health, citizenship and character. To implant the game elements of safety, sanity, and intelligent supervision; and to keep the welfare of the player first, foremost, and entirely free of adult lust for glory. To emphasize teamwork for all participants.

To find out more information on the organization visit them at www.njbl.org.  

Youth Basketball of America

Youth Basketball of America is an international governing body which promotes youth basketball worldwide. YBOA is a non-profit organization located in Orlando, Florida, which offers league development, tournaments, uniforms, educational clinics, scholarship programs, support materials, merchandise and insurance programs.

Member organizations receive discounted services on a wide range of items needed to advance their group's goals. YBOA also hosts three major events in July including an International Basketball Camp, Boys and Girls National Championship Tournament.

Each team must qualify at a State Qualifier in order to be eligible to attend the Nationals. Check out their tournament listings to find the qualifiers in your state. If you cannot find one listed for your state, it may be in the process of being sanctioned by the National Headquarters. You can contact your Area Director for more information.

Mission Statement: Youth Basketball of America, the premier youth membership organization in the sport of basketball, strives to provide opportunities for personal growth and development of youth athletes while also reinforcing positive influences, self-confidence, self-esteem and the ability to excel on and off the court.  Through participation, YBOA is dedicated to educate and motivate each member while encouraging teamwork, sportsmanship and fun through the spirit of basketball.

General Information: yboahq@yboa.org | Contact Information: 407-363-9262 |  Website:  www.yboa.org