Trumbull County Basketball Academy

Now in our 24th season we have had over 4000 athletes participate in Trumbull County Basketball Academy. THIRTEEN OF THE LAST 16 FEMALE WINNERS OF THE TRUMBULL COUNTY PLAYER OF THE YEAR AWARD PARTICIPATED IN THE TRUMBULL COUNTY BASKETBALL ACADEMY or Mahoning Valley Eagles. LaShonda Allen (Labrae), Pamela Brown (Harding), Lori Krezeczowski (Niles), Anglea Cape (Howland), Jenny Place (Badger), Darcy Quinlan (Howland), Lynle Cornell (Hubbard), Cachet Murray (Girard), Ashleigh Tondo (McDonald), Ellie Shields (Howland), Kelly Barzak (Howland) and Paige Klaric (JFK).

The Trumbull County Basketball Academy was the first AAU spring basketball club in the Tri-County Area. The T.C.B.A. started as the Mahoning Valley Eagles non-profit basketball club, the only one in Ohio. We have continued that tradition with the T.C.B.A. We are now the Lakers North with our merger with the Ohio Lakers. 

Parents and athletes: Spring tournament basketball is not like school basketball. The games tend to be more physical and less fouls are usually called, this is the nature of tournament basketball. This is not new to spring basketball it has been this way for my 22-years involved in tournament basketball.  I believe as a high school coach this is a benefit of spring tournament basketball. Expect the games to be physical, this will help the boys/girls when they return to their school teams next fall. This is a competitive program were the athletes learn to compete at a high level. Spring basketball is not meant to be a fundamental instructional program.