Basketball Elite Academy

The start of the Basketball Elite Academy is rapidly approaching.  On December 15, I will book the necessary gyms.  I am currently developing the necessary icons and session descriptions.  Sessions will occur from 7-9 pm at the Evergreen Schools and other available P3 Schools.  The private sessions are normally one hour long and will occur from 9-10 on the same day as other sessions are happening.  I am building the list of interested coaches....so far I have four coaches who said they would be willing to do sessions. They are Brad Schoenfeld, Donna-Marie Frassetto, JJ Del Castillo and Scott Hundseth.  If any of you know others that would be interested please send me their email addresses as you will want approximately 10-15 different coaches on the list to make sure we can cover all the sessions.  Our ratio is one coach to ever ten athletes.  The system is set up to promote this ratio, electronically athletes register and when a session is full, athletes join the waiting list, if the waiting list gets big we hire another coach and then we double the number of participants.  Head coaches for a session are paid 50 dollars an hour while the assistant coaches get paid 40 dollars an hour.  A coach is paid 60 dollars an hour for private sessions.

All athletes are required to bring their own ball as the academy does not supply any balls.  To be selected for a session, each coach is required to complete the coaches contract and form information found at the following URL:

https://sites.google.com/view/elitesite/coaches-contract-agreement

The sessions are:

1. Advanced Defense

2. Advanced Dribble

3. Advanced Offense

4. Advanced Shooting

5. A week of skills

6. Basic Dribble

7. Basic Shooting

8. Defense

 9. Layups

10. Offense

11. Pickup Game Play

12. Private Sessions

Ideas for other sessions are always encouraged and welcome. 

The sessions are for athletes grades 7-12, girls and boys together.  They are individual skill instruction where the athletes can work at their own level.  Our goal is to make them better at individual skills.  Girls and Boys come to the same session.  Sessions cost 30 dollars per participant and no membership fee is require or a minimum number of sessions the athletes come and go allowing for multisport athletes with busy lives.  Coach's children can attend for free the sessions they are coaching.    

A very serious rule at the Academy is:

We do not use the academy to build teams or recruit players for teams during academy sessions.

The reason being coaches will stop sending their players to the academy if they do not believe it is a safe place with no recruiting.

Coaches at the academy are chosen for their maturity and report with the age of athletes we are training.  We are looking for the best coaches in the city.  We do not offer coaching positions to young players (university players) with a history of coaching experience, we seek teachers who have coached as they have skills for working with this age group of athletes.  Coaching certification levels are welcome but more emphasis is placed on older, mature, experienced coaches rather than higher-level coaches with limited experience with beginners and young athletes.  We do bring in guest coaches, (University coaches, professional players etc.) on occasions.  No formal evaluation of coaches is done, new coaches are used as an assistant coach and their continuing involvement in coaching sessions will be based on the athlete's evaluation and the head coach's thoughts on their skills.  Each session offered at the academy is evaluated by the athletes. 

Each of the interested coaches who have completed the coaching forms will receive an invite to a nationwide police check which is a requirement for all coaches.