Garrigan Basketball Case Study

The third annual OVO Bounce basketball tournament began Monday evening at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre on 255 Front St. in downtown Toronto. Canadian basketball players accompanied by current and future NBA stars were on-hand to play and to watch the opening games of this 8-team tournament. This tournament is sponsored by Toronto’s vey own, Drake – appropriately named for his label, October’s Very Own – alongside the Nike AAU franchise, CIA Bounce. This event accompanies Drake’s annual OVO Fest concert, which is held Sunday August 2nd this year.

With the season on the line, the seniors team had to win against St. Francis Xavier. Down by two baskets at the end of

The YellowJackets (11-13, 7-7 ASC) were supported by five players in double figures and a bench that outscored its counterparts by a 36-10 margin en route to the 11-point win. Sophomore reserve Sam Talbert scored a team-high 19 to lead the YellowJackets. Also in double figures were freshman Caleb Loggins, seniors C.J. Edwards and Zakarius Wells, who each had 12 points and sophomore Alec Colhoff added 11.

UCLA has a world renouned sports program, consisting of highly ranked and successfully teams. UCLA carries a huge reputation on its back in sports, molding Lakers point guard Lonzo ball and producing hall-of-famers in almost every one of their Sports. Are you worthy to live up to 100 NCAA titles, or a count of 261 Olympic medals? UCLA’s girls basketball team is ranked number 11 in the entire woman's NCAA program. Due to the incredible coaching by Corey Close, amazing training facilities, and very gritty players willing to strive for excellence causes them to acquire athletic domination. The way of coaching implemented by and iconic coach named John Wooden is the pyramid of Success, which pushes all athletes to succeed soon enough to become as iconic like players such as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Jackie Robinson.

In life, you encounter many situations and people that aid in molding you into the person you are meant to be. When these instances in time occur, we may not realize it, but looking back they made a huge impact on our lives. For the past four years, I have been a member of the Navarro Runnin’ Lady Panthers Basketball Team, and while the sport itself taught me many lessons and skills I can use to be successful, there was one coach that managed to do the same.

Entering the fourth quarter 27th seeded Somers trailed 19th seeded Bloomfield by 18 points in the CIASC Class S girl’s basketball quarterfinal. Somers junior guard Emily Plagenza, who already hit a game winning buzzer beater to upset 6th seeded Old Lyme in the first round followed by a 20 point game in a second round win, was not going down without a fight. Plagenza put Somers on her back scoring 16 fourth quarter points to bring her team within one possession of advancing to the semi-finals. Somers wound up losing that game 64-61 but it is the toughness and determination that Plagenza displayed that would lead her into a career in sport.

Over the course of the past several years, the North Iowa Fire basketball program has helped me become a much better basketball player but it has also done so much more. The Fire program provided me with the opportunity to make, what are now, some of my closest friends. Throughout my years in the program, we went through our struggles, but from these struggles I learned the value of hard work and competing at every level. North Iowa Fire helped me fall in love with the game of basketball and I learned so much about myself that I never knew.

With the Boys Basketball season in full swing, many students and teachers are very exited for the promising season ahead. The West Central boys are currently 0-2 but are hoping to turn the season around with the upcoming home games. “I think this season is going great I think that we have a real chance at State,” Said Senior Noah Vettrus. He said this after the 82-70 loss to Dells last Friday. It was in this game that he had 31 points and 10 rebounds. But he is not the only player that has a great outlook for this season, Junior Nick Nagel says that he is very excited for the season and he thinks the team will go all the way to state this year as long as they play smart and execute the plays correctly. “Honestly I see a lot of potential

Coach Steve Rocker is one of the most successful high school basketball coaches in Kentucky’s history. Coach Rocker was very successful in previous years. Strangely, this year was very different for him. For the first time in his professional life, he is falling short of his expectations, the community expectations, and the team’s expectations. His team lost a lot of games, but most importantly the boys had no motivation or desire to bring the team out of the rut they found themselves. His players have lost their will to win, their love for their teammates, and their passion to play. Coach Rocker’s motivational methods that have always worked before and resulted in success are now failing, and he doesn’t know why. He argues that his players have become selfish and bored with winning because they have been so successful in previous years. “And there’s no question that my guys have lost their drive to win because they’ve won so much in the past. Now all they want is individual ‘wins’…which just doesn’t cut it on a team” (Gongwer, 2010, p. 17).

The likes of Kobe Bryant, Kevin Garnett, Tracy McGrady, Amare Stoudamire, and Jermaine O’Neal are setting the tone across the nation for high schoolers considering by-passing college for the NBA. Two of today’s biggest stars, Garnett and Bryant, have never attended college, but both were immediately successful and popular in the pros (Head to Head). The biggest star in the NBA right now, Garnett, is having an MVP-caliber season and is leading his team to their best record in franchise history. The teenagers with high hopes admire these professionals living their dream and hope to someday be in their shoes.

Coach Standiford has always demonstrated a consistent and genuine concern for students with a common sense approach. Not just academics and athletics, but the whole student, especially as it relates to encouraging, nurturing and facilitating the students to becoming mature and accountable for their own actions and behavior. For the last two years, our middle son who has learning and coordination challenges due to autism, has played on the junior varsity basketball team; during the first year, we were very nervous about Matt having meltdowns but Coach asked us to let go and let him work the process. The high standards of family and team Coach Standiford brought to the boys basketball team influenced the entire team of boys to readily accept Matt as a member, treating him as a brother and friend no different than any of them… the change in Matthew’s social and physical progress has been

With the Christmas tournament aside, we entered the post-season without a loss. We had a plan for each playoff game from districts to regional. We never deviated from the plan, keeping our eye on the target –

There are many high school basketball phenoms that are scouted by pro teams even when they are in high school. A select few in the past have gone straight to the NBA out of high school and had a lot of success, while some players go to college all four years to develop their skills at the next level. However, there are athletes that will waste one year at the college level just so they could get to the NBA. Why would you waste one year of your life when you could have already been in the NBA a year earlier? Basketball players should either go to college all four years and enhance their skills and get a solid education. If not, skip college and go straight to the NBA, rather than wasting a year of your life, and possibly a classroom seat for a person who wanted to get an education.

Within Hollywood’s movies depiction of drug addiction, many have failed to represent all true aspects that come along with such lifestyles. The movie, The Basketball Diaries, is based off a novel Jim Carroll wrote from his own diary entries. As a teenager growing up in the sixties, Carroll reveals his progression of drug abuse which eventually leads him addicted to heroin.Heroin is a white powder derived from morphine found in opium. It is commonly prescribed as a painkiller, but is also a popular street drug.The director casted Leonardo DiCaprio as Jimmy, and concentrates on creating the character as a stereotypical drug abuser. DiCaprio’s most captivating scene is when he is going through heroin

With the opportunity of a fresh start in front of us, I believe now is the time to make the changes this program needed five plus seasons ago. My first year on the team was both very exciting and intimidating. It couldn’t have been more than two days into the season before I was taken under the wing of senior captain Laura. She began to teach me the ropes of the program I would dream of leading myself one day. As a new captain, Laura explained to me her goals as a leader and what she hoped to bring to the Prior Lake Girls’ Hockey Team. As I look back to the very beginning of my high school hockey career, I have yet to see this team achieve the goals Laura set that year. What I will write about is what I have learned what makes some leaders more successful than other, and why