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Toronto's North Region Basketball Association
Parent Information
Who are we and what are we all about? Good questions. North Region Basketball Association was started in 2000 by two school teachers in North York. At that time, quality basketball was not easily accessible to youth in North York. Our first season in 2000 consisted of 9 girls and 9 boys, playing 3 on 3 with an instructional component. Today, through our various programs and rep teams, we have close to 500 members of the North Region Basketball family and expect to double each year.
Our mission is to build character, one b-baller at a time. We offer many programs to promote the following; healthy active living, fair play, honesty and sportsmanship. commitment, hard work, fun, learning and a love of basketball, a love that we have developed over a combined 45 years of teaching students from ages 6 to 18.
When you register your child with us, they are in good hands. We have many people who work with your child but we will only have people who, first of all, have an excellent rapport with children and who, secondly, have a great understanding of coaching basketball. Relationships matter.
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We offer the following programs;
(1) Micro-ball for children aged 4 - 6
(2) Smallball for children aged 7 - 9
(3) House League play for children aged 7 to 18
(4) Skills Academy for all ages
(5) Rep Teams for ages 8 - 16
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to call us at 416-505-2804 or 416-409-3378 and remember-
As we are a NON-Profit operating outside of school hours, we are required to pay rent on our gyms, purchase various equipment and supplies. To cover our costs we charge for our programs
Program fees can change with the length of time we are permitted in the gyms
Micro Ball - Usually 1 hour, once a week, skills for 10 weeks
House League - Usually 2 hours, once a week, play, for 10 weeks
Skillz (player development) - Usually 2 hours, once a week, Sklliz & Drillz, for 10 weeks
Rep Teams - Usually 2 hours, twice a week plus Skills, Games & Tournaments October to April/May.
OUR VISION: NRBA
A message from the Nick Biagini
Director of North Region Crazy Cats.
Dear Parent(s):
I like to take this opportunity to stake our claim of our vision and values for our organization. North Regions Basketball Association (NRBA) is an exciting and fun environment for your child to develop skills, teamwork, and fun.
Fun is our vision through the sport of Basketball. Our coaching staff, players, and parent(s) play a key role in supporting expectations and behaviour during the season.
Our coaches are fundamentally sound with excellent knowledge of the game. We share the same values to support responsibility and diversity. Our goal is to promote confidence, learn skills with effort, and have fun. Instructional practice’s is a learning competency for your child development for the game. Our coaches, provide structure, a safe learning environment, with the ability to communicate.
Teamwork, friendship to respect each other values and ethnicities helps us to promote awareness, dignity, respect, positive self-awareness individually as a team.
Competitiveness during competition is an element of all sports. Children will adapt naturally in a competitive nature. We adhere to our organizational values to support every member in a healthy way, encourage to play in a variety of positions to play, set for success, in keeping with our vision and ideals to achieve learning as being of upmost value to character development for a healthy child.
Our coaches will provide opportunity for every member to learn fundamental skills at all levels of competence. On and off the court, our vision statement refers to equal opportunity for all. Collaboration from all of us will benefit your child's self-esteem to learning the game of Basketball and promote their own learning style and healthy values.
The Board, coaches endorse the parents to act professionally, respect, and accommodate the players in decision making on and off the court, encourage the heart, learn through practice and play the game with a positive attitude. Parent’s play an important role to support their child’s development through play: dribbling, passing, shooting on off days with good ethics in practice with a positive message in mind.
We at North Region Basketball Association endeavour to ensure safety as the primary goal to the success of our program.
We look forward to a fun and rewarding season. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our program, please contact Nick Biagini, Director cell 416 409 3378, or email: nbiagini@sympatico.ca or Joe Gagliardi, Director cell 416 505 2804, or email: gagaj@rogers.com
