2024/25 OPEN LETTER TO PARENTS OF YOUTHHOOPZ PARTICIPANTS
We tried our absolute best to create a basketball league with Geography, competition, and common sense for the Sidney elementary-aged hoopsters. In the end, we just could not find, convince, or strong-arm enough other programs who matched our vision. While we accomplished many, many good things we just could not provide enough variety of competition to challenge our kids.
4th – 6th Grades
In the 24-25 basketball season, the YouthHoopz.org with be merging with Dayton Metro to create Metro North for grades 4-6 boys and girls. Metro North will play all games within a few miles of I-70 and north.
Also, three and four team double headers are allowed upon agreement of opponents. On the downside, we have allotted two teams per age group per gender. This means we will cap our rosters somewhere between 16-20 players. We will place a team in Division Two and a team in D3 at each grade level.
4 – 6th Coaching Staffs
- 4th gr boys – Patti Wheeler, Tony Thomas
- 4th gr girls – Henry Stockton, Jon Johnson, Kristin Jones
- 5th gr boys – Marissa Clark, Donald Alexander, Zach Michael, Brent Walden, Brandon Symonds
- 5th gr girls – Jon Sybert, Lindsey Geuy, Greg Snyder
- 6th gr boys – Greg Snyder, Josh Ross, Michael Ward, Jason Kennedy
- 6th gr girls – Rick Hickman, Donovan Clark, Brooks Reed, Xavier Foy
3rd Grade
Third Grade is a horse of a different color. We will stay in house for a majority of the season, with clinics, fundamentals and rules wrapped into four days of instructions starting in early January. Mid-January will see intrasquad games with officials, scorekeeping, but NO admission fees. February brings six games against Piqua and Greenville, two each at the three schools involved. There will be admission fees for these games. Every third grader will receive a basketball, a game jersey and personalized warm up top. FEE $65
3rd grade Coaching Staffs
- 3rd gr – Brian Swank, Reggie Rogers
NOTE: We are seeking a few good men and women to coach, be a scorekeeper and provide surveillance.
ALL 4,5,6, graders will receive a new basketball when returning an old one, a game jersey and shorts plus a long sleeve dry fit personalized warm up top with a hood. It does not get any better than that.
Third grade fees ($65) Due by JAN 1, 2025
Grades 4, 5 ,6 fees ($95) Due by NOV 11, 2024
(payment plan $50 on NOV 11, $25 on NOV 18, $20 on NOV 25)
