Registration open for K-6 Winter Basketball League
Read on for details on our K-6 Winter Basketball League. Registration is $75 and open through Friday, December 18. Clinics and play begin in January.
By Greg Anderson, Middle School Basketball Coach
USN is excited to provide a winter basketball competition for students in kindergarten through sixth grade.
The Winter Basketball League serves as an opportunity for K-6 students to develop and improve their basketball skills and knowledge. Each grade will have a designated block of time on Saturdays or Sundays for development and gameplay. The first 30 minutes will be skills instruction where students will learn and enhance basketball fundamentals such as shooting, dribbling, passing, and guarding; then teams will compete in their games of the week.
The dates for league play are Saturday, January 9 through Sunday, February 28 with preseason clinics taking place during each group's first two weeks of the league to help players prepare for the season.
Staff, coaches, and referees for the league are USN coaches and High School basketball players. HS players will have training and a senior advisor to assist them throughout the duration of the league.
Kindergarten through third-grade teams will be co-ed with a maximum of seven players and will play a full-court, three-versus-three format to allow for better development. Fourth through sixth-grade players will be separated by gender with a maximum of 12 players and will play in the traditional full court, five on five format.
League times by grade level are as follows:
Kindergarten: Saturdays from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
First Grade: Saturdays from 10:30 to 12 p.m.
Second Grade: Saturdays from 12 to 1:30 p.m.
Third Grade: Saturdays from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
Fourth Grade: Sundays from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
Fifth Grade: Sundays from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Sixth Grade: Sundays from 12 to 1:30 p.m.
All clinic and league play will take place in Sperling and Cheek Gymnasiums. Click here to register for this league, which is $75 per student-athlete. The following guidelines will be in place in adherence to USN's COVID-19 mitigating protocols:
The number of spectators in the gym will be limited significantly.
All players, coaches, referees, and spectators will wear masks in the gym.
Only two teams are allowed in a designated space at one time.
Spectators will be required to socially distance.
Everyone will be temperature checked before entering the gym.
Players must have their own water bottles; water fountains will not be available.
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