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AD's September Letter Quick Glance
October 1st December 1st Commish mails schedules to Athletic Directors for final approval December 9th December 15th December 16-21st January 15th |
Welcome to the official site of Elementary Christian Conference Basketball for 5th and 6th grade boys and girls. General Season starts 1st week in January through February. Teams play 9 or 10 games. Post- Season tourney for girls and boys is the last week in February. Your school's team roster is due November 20th. Mail to:
Jason Smith, If your school has a home gym and wants
to play home games please submit gym dates and game times for those dates
along with your team rosters. There are some league schools that do not
have a gym so allowing games at your gym that do not involve your school
would be helpful in scheduling. See form in AD Letter.
I will mail the Medical waivers are due December 15th. Entry Fees: Go to the Results link to see the final standings of the 2003 season. Use the rest of this web site to view schedules, standings, rules, and rosters. A new part is a report a score section where you can enter your game scores without calling it in. This will help in allowing more up-to-date standings. If you have any questions just email me at work : jsmith@gcstulsa.com Coaches, make sure you Report your Score. See legend below for a map to the gym Jason Smith, Here are my thoughts below on eligibility and how to evaluate in the preseason where a team fits. Boys A division :
Competitive division of 6th graders. This division would consist of the
stronger more competitive teams out to win the "much coveted" Boys B division : Developmental division of 6th graders and stronger 5th grade teams. Boys C division : Very developmental division of 5th graders. No 6th graders can play in this division. So, the idea is to take some of the "weaker" 6th grade teams and put them in the "B" division. Then take some of the "weaker" 5th grade teams and place them in the "C" division. The hardest part of this is doing a preseason analysis of where each team should fit. Because we get new coaches to the league each year, they don't know which division to play. A pre-season tournament could help, but which gym or gyms could host, and what if the better player on the team is sick for the pre season tourney? That would skew the evaluation process. Another way to evaluate would be for Athletic Directors to hold a "tryout" of all 5th and 6th graders. In 2003 @ Grace Fellowship there was (13) 6th graders that came out for basketball. They were divided up evenly and neither was as competitive in the "A" division as they wanted to be. So, if a smaller school has 13-15 6th graders, then hold a tryout, and have one stronger team of (8) - 6th graders, send them to the "A" division and remaining 6th graders, and a few better 5th graders play in the "B" division. The larger schools Victory, Holland Hall, Metro could put their best players in a Champions or Catholic league and remaining players in "A" like Metro did in 2003. Or divide the teams up as evenly as possible and put all in "A" like Victory did this year. The key is to get all of the school's Athletic Directors and coaches on the same page in terms of evaluating talent and the division that is best in which to put their team. Ideally, we would not want teams to "sandbag" into a weaker division, but find a division that they can develop and be competitive at the same time. It's been easy to follow the straight forward |
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