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 Bolands Team

James Ball
Brian Boland
Kieran Dorney
Max Genova
Daniel Greene
Joseph Griffin
Joseph McNiff
Gavin Paskewitz
Christian Sullivan
Brian Wood


Coach McDonalds Team

James Affronti
Jason Brown
Christopher Catalano
Salvatore Ingrassia
Billy Kephart
Daniel Mascola
Dylan McDonald
Pat Noonan
Liam O?Donohue
Jack Palmer


Coach TBD

At this stage, we do not have a head coach for the team listed below. If you are interested in head coaching this team, please email Tom Granville at granvill@whitneycap.com.

Christopher Alfaya
George Arianas
Adam Baksh
Timothy Brennan
Michael Cerenzia
Kevin Cudahy
Joseph Guzzo
Trevor Soutar
Kieran Sullivan
Sean Villapol