The Grampian Flyers are holding open try-outs for the 20010/11 season. There will be both male and female try-outs, for both U16 and U18 squads. The player contribution for the season will be aprox £150 with £5 game fee to cover travel costs. This will provide players with training twice a week and games in the national league from September until March. The Grampian Flyers are the only national league club in the region and are the pinnacle of the player pathway in Grampian. Players should bring a filled out registration form to the try-outs which can be found on the basketballscotland website by clicking on the following link; http://www.basketballscotland.com/images/stories/For_Clubs/form_individualregistration_09_10.pdf

Venue

Aberdeen Sports Village, Linksfield Road, Aberdeen, AB24 5RU

Dates

Sunday 8^th August

Sunday 15^th August

Sunday 22^nd August

Times

U16 & U18 girls – 11-12.30pm

U16 & U18 boys – 12.30-2pm

To align with the launch of basketballscotland’s new website, Facebook and Twitter pages we are challenging all players, coaches, officials and enthusiasts to show where you are going on your summer holidays.
  
Competition, basketballscotland Summer Holidays Challenge 
  
Description, Take a picture of yourself beside international landmarks in basketballscotland attire. Whether its a t-shirt, hoodie, training vest or whole tracksuit take a picture beside the landmarks, signs, with characters or anywhere you can think of. Email the photo to grampian@basketball-scotland.com and they will be posted on the basketballscotland Facebook page. The winning photo will be decided on by our pannel of judges, in three criteria.

- People, who are in the photo with you? Are you with friends, family or somebody famous? Michael Jordan?! 
   
Prize, the winning photo as chosen by the pannel judges will be posted on the basketballscotland website and the person who sends it in will recieve a basketballscotland goodie bag, T-shirt, waterbottle and free mini basketball. 
Please note that you must send your name, age, and address in with your photograph to ensure that we can send your prize to the right place. All photos will be posted on the basketballscotland Facebook group, but only the winning photo will be posted on the basketballscotland website. basketballscotland reserves the right to use any photographs sent to them for publicity and advertisment. Any persons sending photographs to basketballscotland to enter this competition accepts these conditions.

 
 This weekend saw the first U14 challenge, for teams across there country, in Glenrothes. Each region was represented at the event with 14 boys teams competing on the Saturday, and 8 girls teams competing on the Sunday. There was a great standard of play from all the players involved, coupled with some referee development and a great supportive atmosphere from all the spectators all added to a highly successful event. Throughout the tournament each team coach were asked to highlight players that demonstrated team spirit, defensive effort, developed individual offense and repect for all officials. The players that demonstrated these qualities were selected for the all tournament team. There was 10 selected for the boys and 10 for the girls, these are listed below; 
Boys all tournament 10 
Edvenus Leginus – Central
Israel Mobali – Glasgow
Cameron Mackay – Highland
Gregor Grey – Edinburgh East
Jed Courney – Edinburgh South
Stuart Morgan – Fife
Stuart Booth – Paisley
Craig Boyle – Ayrshire
Chris Thomson – Tayside
Malcom Winning – Edinburgh South 
Girls all tournament 10 
Sarah Hunter – Paisley
Sam Butler – Lanakshire
Shannon O’Hara – Highland
Cara Black – Tayside
Holly Gordon – Edinburgh East
Shannon Flippard – Central
Shannon Purves – Edinburgh East
Keri Jackson – Edinburgh South
Katie Fergus – Paisley
Zoe Hyatt – Glasgow 
basketballscotland would like to thank all the players for participating, all the coaches and volunteers that put the time and effort in prior to the event, and finally all the officials for their great work throughout the event.

basketballgrampian and Aberdeen City Active Schools have teamed up to create an extensive summer camp programme. With 5 weeks of activity available to players of all ages and abilities these camps have something for everyone. The camps are focused on individual player skill development through drills, technique and games.

The age groups are split with U14 (P5-S2) at 9am – 12am and U18 (S3-S6) at 1pm – 4pm, and there is no experience needed. Whether you play for Scotland or its the first time you wish to try basketball there is something for everyone.

To sign up for the Aberdeen City basketball camps please contact Active Schools on 08456080935 or contact graham dale at grdale@aberdeencity.gov.uk

For more information on basketball activity in Grampian contact the regional coordinator grampian@basketballscotland.com or visit the website below;

www.basketballgrampian.org