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The purpose of the EBA’s House
League program is to provide an opportunity to play
organized for all interested Edina boy’s grade's 5-12
and girls in
grades 5-8, regardless of their experience or playing
ability.
This league is for players who
have decided not to play in the traveling program or the
school teams or did not make one of those teams during
tryouts. We want to foster a lifelong love for the game
of basketball so the objectives of the program are to
ensure that the participants have fun, learn the
importance of sportsmanship and teamwork, develop their
individual skills and experience the positives of
winning – in that order. Each player will play at least
half of each game. We want each child to have a positive
experience from participating in this program.
The coaches are adult volunteers
interested in working with youth and interested in
basketball. It is estimated that we will need nearly 150 coaches
to direct the
skills development and fun of the kids. Please consider
volunteering your time to coach, co-coach or assist as a
parent manager this year. Check the appropriate box in
the registration process and someone will contact you.
The number of coaches that sign up
is directly related to the number of players that will
assigned to each team. Ideally, we would like to have no
more than 9 players on each House League team. This
enables the players to have more game time and more
individual practice time.
The season starts late November
and ends with a tournament in early March. Throughout
the year, each player will have approximately 22 events
(games, practices, clinics).
Note: The following are planned dates for each league
and are subject to change until final schedules are
posted.
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Grade |
League |
Games Played Summary |
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5 |
House |
Tuesday or Thursday evening |
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6 |
House |
Monday or Friday evening |
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7 |
House |
Tuesday evening & Saturday
afternoon |
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8 |
House |
Tuesday evening & Saturday
afternoon |
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9 |
House* |
Monday, Tuesday, or
Thursday after school |
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10,11,12 |
House* |
Early Wed or Fri evening &
Sunday afternoon |
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* House league for grades 9, 10, 11, 12 is for
boys only |
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Boys Details
Grades 5-8
Boys in grades 5-8 will have a mix of games and
practices starting in Mid November and going through the
end of February. Starting in 5th grade, team
balance is the foremost concern. Therefore, the EBA
instituted an Equidraft system that allows board members
and coaches to participate in building balanced teams.
Parents coaching will always have their children playing
together with them. The season starts late November and
ends with a tournament in early March. Throughout the
year, each player will have approximately 20 events
(games, practices, clinics).
Grade 9
The EBA offers a 9th grade House League for those
players not participating on a school organized team.
The 9th grade program is intended to be purely a
recreational league for fun, with no expectation of
continued skill development. The 9th grade league runs
from December through mid March, with games played after
school at either Valley View or South View .
Registration for 9th grade house league will begin in
August and run through team selection for school teams.
There will be no late fees after October 31, 2007 for
9th league players!
High School League The Edina
Basketball Association expanded their house
league to include 10th, 11th and 12th grades
last year. It was a success as nearly 70
boys played during the inaugural season. The
season begins in December and runs through
the beginning of March. There are up to two
games per week and they are played on early
Wednesday and/or Friday evenings as well as
Sunday afternoons.
The purpose of this
league is to create opportunities for kids
that have participated in the EBA throughout
their youth to continue to play basketball
in a structured environment. To that end, we
have a league coordinator that will be
present at all games to help oversee the
games and handle any issues. These games
will be professionally refereed. However, we
will only be scheduling games but can make
court time available for practicing.
Girls Details The Edina
Girls House League season runs from
Mid-November until end of February.
New this year we will be working in
conjunction with the Minnetonka and
Wayzata House League programs for games.
Including Edina teams, we expect between 10
and 12 teams per grade in this new inter
community House League.
Each
team will have two practices in November
with their first game the first Saturday in
December. Each team will have one
practice a week during the season in
addition to the Saturday games. Figure
roughly 25+ hours of activity. Teams will be
organized as 5/6th teams and 7/8th teams.
Highlights of the Program
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All games are on Saturday
mornings. Last year there were 9 regular season
games and then a two day tournament at the end
of February that provided another 3+ games. At least
12 games all in and tournament winners received
medals.
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All weekly practices will be
held in Edina facilities.
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Our teams would have volunteer
parent coaches.
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Most games will be in
Minnetonka, but we do anticipate some of the
scheduled games to be held in Edina.
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