GCAA Hoopsters

Congratulations on making a 2012-2013 GCAA travel basketball team. A try out was held Monday September 24th and 3 independent evaluators rated each child on drills and their performance in a scrimmage format. The evaluators were 3 current AAU basketball coaches. No evaluator had a child in the grade or in the Garden City schools. Try outs are not an exact science but we do try to be as transparent and equitable as possible with an independent evaluation formula. Utilizing this approach, the ratings were compiled for each child and those rankings were used to form the teams below. This approach typically results in movement from one team to another and this year was no exception.

A cornerstone of GCAA Basketball is our intramural program and in order to play GCAA travel basketball, you must also be registered for GCAA intramurals. We will ensure there are no conflicts with GCAA travel basketball and we will do our best to ensure minimal conflicts with in town CYO programs. Our strong intramural program allows GCAA to access additional court time for practice and permits players to get out on a court one additional time per week since practice time is limited given the size of our program. Please note GCAA has negotiated a group discount with Island Garden in exchange for paying our registration fee early. Each coach will be collecting the $375 travel fee (this fee includes intramural registration but you do need to fill out separate intramural application as soon as possible if you have not done so already) and we would ask your help in paying this full registration fee by no later than Friday October 5th if you have not already paid.

Thank you for your continued support of GCAA Basketball.

Our GCAA Travel Basketball Teams are listed below:


COACH DELUCAS TEAM

MICHAEL DELUCA
KURT DENGLAR
TOM ENGELKE
TOM FRANZ
BRENDAN HAGGERTY
PHILIP IANDOLI
MATTHEW JORDAN
BRENDAN MCGOVERN
STEVEN PAGONIS
LIAM WESTFIELD


COACH BOLANDS TEAM

TOM BOLAND
LIAM DORNEY
TERENCE GOING
JACK GREENE
MICHAEL HAAS
CHRIS HONAN
TOM MCAULEY
TIM MOLGANO
GERARD O'CONNOR
IAN PATRICK PAISLEY


COACH BLAIRS TEAM

WILLIAM BLAIR
JOHN KELLY
CHARLIE GARCIA
AIDAN MAGNOTTA
GRANT MOLLOY
RYAN MURPHY
ANDY RICEMAN
NICHOLAS ROVELLI
RYAN SOLFERINO
JAMES SWEENEY
BLAISE TAKVOR