High School Basketball

In Brothers on Three, we follow Phil and Will, along with their teammates, coaches, and families, as they balance the pressures of adolescence, shoulder the dreams of their community, and chart their own individual courses for the future. Brothers on Three is not simply a story about high school basketball, about state championships and a winning team. It is a book about community, and it is about boys on the cusp of adulthood, finding their way through the intersecting worlds they inhabit and forging their own paths to personhood.

Written by the director of basketball operations at Southern Illinois University (who also played at Illinois and assisted at Kansas), GO GET THAT SCHOLARSHIP! helps high school basketball players and their parents navigate the often stressful and confusing process of securing a college basketball scholarship. Filled with interesting anecdotes, indispensible lists (“The Six Things You Have to Ask a Coach”), tips on everything from highlight videos to walk-on tryouts -- even a college basketball preparation checklist -- this honest, revealing and downright funny book tells high school ...

If you want to learn how to coach girls' high school basketball, then learn from Shane Reinhard who has real-life experience coaching girls' basketball at the high school level. Here's what you will learn inside the book: illuminates the positive and negative realities of coaching girls' basketball at the high school level; discusses a variety of ways to improve basketball skill development on your team; and much more!

It is often said that while Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Massachusetts, the sport was raised and ultimately came of age in the high schools of Indiana, the state where politics, religion, and sweet corn fall in line behind the game played with the round orange ball. Tales from Indiana High School Basketball

Dale Cooper arrived in tiny Invincible, Indiana determined to coach his way to a better job. He never bargained for a clueless principal, a bitter star, a racist point guard, and a town fiercely proud of 49 consecutive seasons of finishing exactly .500. When it becomes apparent to Dale that neither the town nor his players have any interest in winning, he devises a way to turn everyone's expectations upside down. His gambit forces Invincible to strive for greatness if only to keep their dreams of mediocrity alive. Set in 1996-1997, Invincible, Indiana explores the myths and motivations that...

In The Jump, one of America's great sports writers follows high school phenom Sebastian Telfair on his quest for NBA stardom - and exposes all that big-time sports in America has become, the good and the bad. Kevin Garnett, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James - all became NBA superstars without playing a day of college ball. In 2004, Coney Island's 5-foot-11 Telfair became the first small player ever to jump straight from high school to the NBA when he signed contracts with the Portland Trail Blazers and Adidas worth $25 million.

As the crack epidemic swept across inner-city America in the early 1980s, the streets of Baltimore were crime ridden. For poor kids from the housing projects, the future looked bleak. But basketball could provide the quickest ticket out, an opportunity to earn a college scholarship and perhaps even play in the NBA. Dunbar High School had one of the most successful basketball programs, not only in Baltimore but in the entire country, and in the early 1980s, the Dunbar Poets were arguably the best high school team ever.

In the world of sports, a coach plays a pivotal role in shaping young athletes into champions. This is especially true for middle school basketball coaches, whose influence extends far beyond the court. In this subchapter, we will delve into the crucial role of a middle school basketball coach and how they can effectively guide and shape young athletes. The primary responsibility of a middle school basketball coach is to develop fundamental basketball skills and foster a love for the game. However, their impact goes beyond teaching the X's and O's. Coaches serve as mentors, role models, and...

An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno. For Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears, and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings, and set them down in a diary.

Written by the director of basketball operations at Southern Illinois University (who also played at Illinois and assisted at Kansas), GO GET THAT SCHOLARSHIP! helps high school basketball players and their parents navigate the often stressful and confusing process of securing a college basketball scholarship. Filled with interesting anecdotes, indispensible lists (“The Six Things You Have to Ask a Coach”), tips on everything from highlight videos to walk-on tryouts -- even a college basketball preparation checklist -- this honest, revealing and downright funny book tells high school ...

He wanted to disappear. Instead, he became the target of the biggest kid in school. And then… the bully asked him for help. When Davey Watkins moves across the country, his goals are simple: stay invisible, perfect his fadeaway jumper, and maybe dunk a basketball someday. But his first day at his new school lands him in the crosshairs of Shawn “Goliath” Morton—a violent bully with wounds of his own. Everything changes when Shawn shows up at Davey’s door—bruised and desperate—with an impossible request: train him to fight his abusive father. Davey reluctantly agrees—with one ...

Dave Kindred has covered dozens of Super Bowls and written about stars like Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, and Michael Jordan. But a high-school girls basketball team—the Lady Potters of Morton, Illinois—stands apart from the rest.

For far too long the mythology of Indiana basketball has been dominated by Hoosiers. Framed as the ultimate underdog, feel-good story, there has also long been a cultural debate surrounding the film. The Real Hoosiers sets out to illuminate the narrative that the film omits, the story of the unheralded Crispus Attucks Tigers, playing the game at the highest level in the 1950s in a racially divided Indiana.

By winning the state high school basketball championship in 1955, ten teens from an Indianapolis school meant to be the centerpiece of racially segregated education in the state shattered the myth of their inferiority. Their brilliant coach had fashioned an unbeatable team from a group of boys born in the South and raised in poverty. Anchored by the astonishing Oscar Robertson, a future college and NBA star, the Crispus Attucks Tigers went down in history as the first state champions from Indianapolis and the first all-black team in U.S. history to win a racially open championship tournament.

Welcome Coaches and Players! The fundamentals you learn throughout our courses will help basketball players on their path to becoming better players. ABC Fundamentals focuses on the fundamentals first; with a strong foundation, we teach athletes how to continue to build on their skills until they become proficient in the most advanced drills! This short ebook will dive into fundamental defensive drills that will enhance any athlete's defensive skills. ABC Fundamentals puts forth a more focused effort to ensure the wholesome development of youth around the world. Not only will athletes learn...

Welcome Coaches and Players! The fundamentals you learn throughout our courses will help basketball players on their path to becoming better players. ABC Fundamentals focuses on the fundamentals first; with a strong foundation, we teach athletes how to continue to build on their skills until they become proficient in the most advanced drills! This short ebook will dive into fundamental drills that will enhance any athlete's footwork skills. ABC Fundamentals puts forth a more focused effort to ensure the wholesome development of youth around the world. Not only will athletes learn to play ...

Welcome Coaches and Players! The fundamentals you learn throughout our courses will help basketball players on their path to becoming better players. ABC Fundamentals focuses on the fundamentals first; with a strong foundation, we teach athletes how to continue to build on their skills until they become proficient in the most advanced drills! This short ebook will dive into fundamental drills that will enhance any athlete's dribbling skills. ABC Fundamentals puts forth a more focused effort to ensure the wholesome development of youth around the world. Not only will athletes learn to play ...

Welcome Coaches and Players! The fundamentals you learn throughout our courses will help basketball players on their path to becoming better players. ABC Fundamentals focuses on the fundamentals first; with a strong foundation, we teach athletes how to continue to build on their skills until they become proficient in the most advanced drills! This short ebook will dive into fundamental drills that will enhance any athlete's passing skills. ABC Fundamentals puts forth a more focused effort to ensure the wholesome development of youth around the world. Not only will athletes learn to play ...

Welcome Coaches and Players! The fundamentals you learn throughout our courses will help basketball players on their path to becoming better players. ABC Fundamentals focuses on the fundamentals first; with a strong foundation, we teach athletes how to continue to build on their skills until they become proficient in the most advanced drills! This short ebook will dive into fundamental drills that will enhance any athlete's rebounding skills. ABC Fundamentals puts forth a more focused effort to ensure the wholesome development of youth around the world. Not only will athletes learn to play ...

Welcome Coaches and Players! The fundamentals you learn throughout our courses will help basketball players on their path to becoming better players. ABC Fundamentals focuses on the fundamentals first; with a strong foundation, we teach athletes how to continue to build on their skills until they become proficient in the most advanced drills! This short ebook will dive into fundamental offensive drills that will enhance any athlete's shooting skills. ABC Fundamentals puts forth a more focused effort to ensure the wholesome development of youth around the world. Not only will athletes learn ...