IMMACULATE CONCEPTION BASKETBALL

2024-2025

LET’S PLAY HOOPS!!

Basketball at Immaculate Conception is back for another fun, exciting, and eventful season.  Here’s a quick summary of each of our grade-based programs, with more on practice and game schedules below.

Don’t miss out!! Space is limited and registration will close on or before October 15 for grades 3 - 8.

Youth Clinic (PreK4 through Grade 2)

One-hour group sessions held on Saturday mornings at ICS, January 4 through February 22, that focus on skills and team play.  Please consider volunteering to coach or assist; experience is not required!  Registration will close on or before December 15; space is limited (clinic registration usually reaches capacity quickly)

Grade 3 Program

Separate boys and girls teams participate in a Sunday afternoon league that includes teams from other area parishes. This program develops skills and sportsmanship in preparation for CYO basketball.  Evening practices held once weekly beginning in early-November; Sunday games begin in December and run through mid-February.  Please consider coaching! Registration will close on or before October 15; space is limited.

Grades 4 – 8, CYO Basketball

CYO basketball promotes good sportsmanship and basketball skills in a framework of Catholic values.  Twice-weekly practices for grade-based teams begin in early November.  League games, held at Archdiocesan schools, start in December and run through February.  League champions play in the CYO tournament in March Please consider coaching or assisting. Registration will close on or before October 15; space is limited.

COST (per child):   

• Clinic PreK4 to 2nd Grade – $80   

• 3rd Grade – $95 

• CYO Elementary 4th to 5th Grade – $155

• CYO Middle School 6th to 8th – $245  (Middle School fee includes a new uniform, which the player will keep. New uniforms will be fully reversible with high quality athletic material in custom ICS colors.)

REGISTRATION LIMITS:  Limits on registration are on a by-grade boy/girl basis.  Once capacity has been reached within a grade for either boys or girls, registration within that group will close and potentially a waiting list created.  Updates will be posted on this site.

PRACTICE SCHEDULE:

• Youth Clinic.   Participants are divided into the following groups: (1) Pre-K/K; (2) 1st/2nd Grade Girls; and (3) 1st/2nd Grade Boys.  Each group will have a dedicated one-hour session on Saturday mornings in January and February during which "team" coaches instructs on basketball skills followed by an intra-squad scrimmage.  
• 3rd Graders.   All 3rd graders will practice once per week starting in mid-November.  Although a final practice schedule won't be finalized until late-October, 3rd graders usually practice on Wednesday nights, 6:00-7:30, at either Immaculate Conception or Loyola Blakefield.  Parents will hear directly from their child's coach with more information about the start of practice.
• 4th to 8th Graders.  4th through 8th graders practice twice weekly on weeknights beginning in early-November; practices are held at either Immaculate Conception, Loyola Blakefield, or Calvert Hall and last either an hour or an hour-and-a-half.  Ordinarily, 4th and 5th grade practices start at 6:00, 7th and 8th grade start at either 7:00 or 7:30, and 6th grade starts at either 6:00, 7:00 or 7:30.  The practice schedule will not be finalized until late-October.  Parents will hear directly from their child's coach with more information about the start of practice.      

GAME SCHEDULE:

• 3rd Graders.  3rd graders play in an informal instructional league composed of teams from other local parishes.  Games are on Sunday afternoons starting in December.  The game schedule is usually finalized around Thanksgiving and sent to parents by their child's coach.
• 4th to 8th Graders, CYO Leagues.   Each team will be registered in a CYO league that will have a dedicated location for game play; a league plays on either Saturdays or Sundays.  For instance, 4th and 5th grade boys ordinarily play in a league hosted by Immaculate Conception that has games on Saturday afternoons and evening.  Other parishes that host leagues are Sacred Heart Glyndon, St. Ursula, St. Mark, St. Agnes, Cathedral, among others.  League schedules are unsually published the week before Thanksgiving and most leagues start play the first weekend of December.  Parents will receive schedules, which will include location and the day/time of games, directly from their child's coach.  There are additionally in-season tournaments (4th-8th grade teams) for which we have traditionally registered teams and give the kids additional opportunities to play throughout the season:  The Msgr Lynch Tournament (held the week after Christmas), The St. Joseph Cockeysville President's Day Tournament (Friday evening through President's Day Monday), and St. Ursula's Al Hahn Memorial Tournament (beginning in late February).  Your child's coach will provide additional details about registrations for these tournaments.
  

QUESTIONS?  Please mail icaa@theimmaculate.org  

About the ICAA

The ICAA sponsors athletic programs that promote positive educational experiences for the student athlete.  These experiences nurture spiritual, physical, emotional and social growth and encourage individual and team skill development.  Our programs include:

Fall Soccer – A skills-based coed clinic for PreK-4 and Kindergarten, boys & girls travel clinic teams for 1^st & 2^nd grade and grade-based teams for grades 3 through 8 that participate in the Archdiocese of Baltimore Soccer Program (ABSP) CYO Soccer league.  Registration begins in May of each school year for the following fall season.

Winter Basketball – A skills-based coed clinic for Pre-K 4 through 2^nd Grade, a 3^rd Grade skills development program that competes against other Parish teams and grade-based teams for Grades 4-8 that competes in Baltimore Catholic Youth Organization (CYO) leagues and tournaments.  Registration opens annually on September.

ELIGIBILITY:  These sports activities are open to students at the Immaculate Conception School and parishioners of either Immaculate Conception or the Church of the Nativity. Those who are baptized Catholic and attend neighboring Catholic schools or parishes that do not offer sports may also eligible to participate. If you have a question about eligibility or questions relating to Immaculate Conception athletics, please email icaa@theimmaculate.org.

NOTE: ALL Volunteers MUST complete Virtus training prior to working with children

Please visit the  Immaculate Conception website to learn more about this requirement