Our youth basketball program, is heading into its 8th Season, and we have every reason to believe that the 2011-2012 season will be the best we have ever had. For the first time, we are offering youth basketball for K-8th grade!
Entire Season by Grade & Gender:
All Leagues (including Cheer) by Week:
Games will be played on Fridays and Saturdays in ONE HOUR time blocks. Games will be played in multiple locations.
Mid-November through beginning of March
Nine to 10 weeks
Currently, our season is seven games long and each game takes approximately one hour to play.
Practices are currently one hour long, once a week.
Registration can be done online, in person or by the mail and begins in October, ending in mid-November.
WRS is a grade-based program, not an age-based program. We offer leagues from kindergarten through eigth grade for both boys and girls. Operating off of our fiscal calendar which runs from August - July, a boy/girl must be in Kindergarten during the season in which they are playing to participate.
Your registration fee of $80, includes a team jersey, t-shirt, and more. All team equipment for practice and games in regard to balls, wrist-bands (for defensive guarding purposes), cones, practice jerseys (pennies), etc., is provided by the league. Players will need to have their own athletic shoes, though basketball-specific shoes are recommended, not required.
For the most part, the game rules are the same has high school basketball, but are tailored to be age and skill level appropriate.
Participants in the league are not required to be members of White River Christian Church or of any church. The league is designed as a community league open to anyone, regardless of church affiliation.
While standings are not kept, we do offer a season ending Tournament in the 5th/6th grade division. The league is designed to teach and emphasize fundamentally sound basketball and provide players the opportunity to compete.
Anyone is eligible to apply to coach in the league, however, we do complete background checks on all coaching applicants and reserve the right to accept or decline coaches on the basis of our discretion.