In the Links/Plays/Drills section, you can find links to sites with plays and drills you may find helpful. If you find other sites you think other coaches might find useful, feel free to email the RYBA web site administrator.

Even though the in-house registration happens in early September, many things cannot be finalized until November. Directors frequently have to make many phone calls after the registration periods to get enough coaches for all their teams, late registrants are taken, the draft for the boys' program has to be coordinated and held, and available gym times and locations have to be collected from the school district and Parks and Rec and compiled. Coaches do not get their rosters, jerseys, and equipment until the coaches' meeting in late October. Even at that point, some re-arranging of practice schedules and/or rosters may have to be done, and the coaches want to make sure they have their information correct before contacting their players' parents.

Check your browser options to see how cookies are handled. If you use Internet Explorer, this can be done by clicking on Tools, then Internet Options. Go to the Privacy tab, and see what your settings are with regard to accepting cookies. Change the setting to "Medium", "Low", or "Accept All Cookies", and you should have access to the handouts.

It is a safety issue, both for the player in question, and her teammates and opponents. Referees are told/trained not to allow illegal headwear, braces, splints, etc., because they could be held responsible for injuries. An example would be if someone got a scratched cornea, and the official had allowed them to wear the illegal equipment. The ref could just as easily be sued as the association who allow them to play with the apparatus on. By traveling and school regulations, hair that is "braided" in beads is illegal. If they are softer, rubber-band type braids, then they are normally allowed to play.

RYBA sends their practices times to the school district and Roseville Parks and Rec, who in turn schedule building aides to be on site. If the practice is scheduled to begin at 6 PM, and parents begin dropping their children off at 5:30 PM, those children could be unsupervised if the building aide is not there at 5:30. Should someone get hurt, and no aide would be around to call for or provide medical attention. There is also the matter that RYBA pays for the gym times by the half-hour. If a team begins practicing a half-hour early, we could be (and have been) charged for the extra time, which affects our budget adversely.

The meeting minutes are not posted until after they have been approved, which takes place at the subsequent meeting. As a result, the minutes for a meeting in September would not get posted until after the October meeting. Further, while the board tries to meet every month, during the basketball season when everyone is very busy with league and team play, occasionally a month will be missed, so there will be two months between meetings.

The primary reason that RYBA does not allow in-house players to keep their jerseys is cost. The largest portion of your registration fee goes towards paying for gym time for our practice and game facilities. Gym rental fees account for about half the registration fee paid by in-house RYBA participants, whereas there is no fee charged for things like baseball and football fields. If you exclude gym rental fees, then the basketball fee is actually much less than the other sports, which may explain why they are able to provide the tangible items like jerseys. The remainder of our registration fee covers referees, equipment purchases, insurance, and miscellaneous expenses. In order to provide jerseys or other items that the kids can keep, we would have to increase our fees beyond the current amount. Gym costs continue to increase each year, but we have made every effort to keep our fees at a reasonable level in order to keep our programs financially accessible to a broad range of community residents. RYBA is a self-sufficient, non-profit program, so we have to keep an eye on costs whenever possible.

Note that our 1st and 2nd grade program, which is a Saturday-only program, provides the kids with a T-shirt that they are able to keep at the end of the season, as well as offering a reduced registration fee. We are able to do this because of the saving in gym rental fees due to not having a weeknight practice.

Little Hoopers is a program for 1st and 2nd graders. Sessions are held on Saturday mornings beginning in November and ending by mid-February. Sessions last 90 minutes and consist of 45 minutes of skill development followed by a game. The games are instructional in nature and the score is not kept. There are a total of 10 sessions during the season and in addition a clinic is put on by the RAHS coaching staff and varsity players. Session times vary from week to week and are as follows: 8:30, 10 and 11:30 (sometimes a 1 pm session is added depending on numbers). Sessions are held at Central Park Elementary.