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REGISTRATION!! | |
Registration is done in several phases. The league sends an email to all players that played the previous year for which the players provided an email address. A registration form and information about play in the upcoming year is provided in the email. A registration form and information about the upcoming years play is also available on the web site so players can print it and mail it in by U.S.P.S. Two in person sessions are usually held at well known business locations. Here Ed is helping Daniel register. This is his first year of playing organized ball in this league. Daniel is 10 years old and will be playing at the "PREP" level. If space is available in a league registrations are accepted even at tryouts - registering in advance of tryouts makes the league operate more efficiently!!
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TRYOUTS!! | |
Tryouts help the league evaluate talent for the purpose of balancing each team competatively. All players that register are assigned to a team (unless players register late and the league has used up all available gym time).
Coaches usually ask the players to do various dribbling, passing, and shooting drills or they divide the players into groups of 5 and and then have them scrimage for about ten minutes. Pictured are two of the junior teams rebounding during a scrimage in 2000.
In 2002, Prep players receive instruction on what to do during the tryout.
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DRAFT!! | |
A day or two following a groups tryout, the coaches get together and select teams. In this picture, the Prep coaches are meeting at the Aquinas school in Woodbridge to select their teams.
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GAMES!! | |
The games have started AT LAST!!
Two of the Middle League (boys aged 12 and 13) teams square off. Paid referees do an excellent job of calling the games.
Two of the prep teams (Bengals in orange and Lions in purple) are competing. Their experience in the novice league last year paid off. The players know how to line up to shoot a free throw.
Park Authority staff are key to a successful EPWBA season.
Pam (left) is overseeing the use of Lake Ridge Middle School while Sue (right) checks to make sure that all is well at ALL of the gyms.
The Park Authority has a direct-dial number to call for recorded information concerning possible gym closures due to bad weather. It is 703-792-4107. The message is supposed to be updated every day at 3:00 pm, and at 7:00 am on week-ends [but listen carefully to the date and time given at the start of the message]. If schools are closed, or dismiss early, the gyms are closed in the evening regardless of conditions. Week-ends involve a separate decision: even if schools are closed on a Friday, the gyms might be available on Saturday and/or Sunday.
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PICTURE DAY!! | |
When hanging on the recreation room wall fifty years hence, these pictures will be the excuse to tell the grandchildren how they scored the winning 3 point basket with just seconds left on the clock. Memory Makers did a nice job of taking the pictures, and made it easy for families by coming both Saturday and Sunday to take the pictures.
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TROPHIES!! | |
Approximately 1 player out of 4 receives a trophy for their play either during the regular season or the post season tournaments.
Charlie Luckett, President of EPWBA, awards the trophies to Cecilia Beach's junior girls team.