San Antonio AAU Select Youth Basketball Tryouts

San Antonio AAU Select Basketball Team Tryouts.. All YGC coaches are experienced and knowledgeable individuals who have proven ability to teach and develop young athletes. Throughout the training process your son will be encouraged, valued, and respected, and his welfare and success will always be a primary concern. Our coaches strive to improve every facet of every basketball player’s game, and then to put each basketball player in a position where he can best display his strengths to college basketball coaches.

In a time when many clubs have no criteria or selection process for choosing coaches, the YGC maintain the highest standards of integrity for our staff members. These standards are evident in all of our basketball coaches’ appearance and demeanor, and in the ways they interact with our athletes, parents, and other coaches.  Significantly, all our our basketball coaches are volunteers who are offering their time not for personal or financial gain, but for the benefit of student-athletes who have the desire to become great collegiate basketball players.

If you would like for your son to become a part of the YGC basketball family contact one of our coaches today and they will get you all the information that you are looking for.

Our teams tryout information can be found on the tryout page, get your son our registered below today!

San Antonio Select Youth Basketball Tryouts

 

San Antonio AAU Select Youth Basketball Tryouts

Make a Good First Impression during basketball tryouts.
• You Never Get a 2nd Chance to Make a Good 1st Impression.
• Come to tryouts looking like a basketball player.
• Show us, don’t tell me what you can do.
 
Hustle/Effort
• ALWAYS try your hardest and give your best effort! There is no substitute for hard work.
• People have different levels of talent, but EVERYONE can try. It takes no talent to hustle!
• Effort/hustle will ALWAYS be acknowledged and rewarded.
 
Concentration/Mental Awareness
• Basketball is a thinking game.
• Concentration is essential to good performance.
• How focused is a basketball player during drills, instructing, and to observe and adapt.
• Be a good listener — be quiet and listen.
 
Enthusiasm and Team Skills – Attitude!!!
• Is contagious.
• Builds unity and togetherness.
• Make sure it’s controlled enthusiasm.
 
Sportsmanship and Competitiveness
• Great competitors respect their opponents.
• Competing means being able to accept winning and losing a basketball game
 
Discipline
• Good basketball players and basketball teams are highly disciplined.
• Discipline is personal commitment.
 
Athletic Ability
• You all have different levels of basketball ability and basketball skill.
• The coach must combine and refine the collective talents to build a “basketball team.”
T.E.A.M – TOGETHER.EVERYONE.ACHIEVE.MORE.
• Consider factors such as conditioning, speed, strength, and agility also as elements that can and should be evaluated.
 

San Antonio AAU Select Basketball Team Tryouts

Skills That We Evaluate:
 
DRIBBLING: • Stationary • With Pivoting • Quick Star/Stop • Cross-over Dribble • Changes of Speed • Speed Dribble PASSING: • Chest Pass • Bounce Pass • Overhead Pass • Baseball Pass SHOOTING: • Right Handed Layup • Left Handed lay-up • Jump shooting • Jump Shot off Pass and Dribble • Free-Throws
DEFENSIVE SKILLS: • Footwork and positioning • Lateral movement OTHER SKILLS: • Rebounding • Boxing Out • Jumping • Screening • Team Offensive Skills • Team Defensive Skills OTHER POINTS TO REMEMBER: • Don’t underestimate your chances of making the team – you have no idea what the coach wants for the team.• Some pretty good players have been cut and used it as motivation for future success.• Attend all tryouts sessions and finish the try-outs.


HAVE FUN & PLAY BASKETBALL!