HBA NEWS
Hopewell Basketball News Flash
7-28-10
HBA 2010-11 Fall/Winter Programs
HBA at night, we offer 2 adult programs, Monday nights 18 and over, This is an informal “pick up” basketball program. Great for exercise and friendly competition. This program will be played at the Timberlane Middle school for 50 weeks starting in September. Thursday Night 30 and Over, This is an informal “pick up” basketball program. Great for exercise and friendly competition.. This program will be played at the Timberlane Middle school on Thursday nights from 8 to 10pm 50 weeks .starting September. More info can be found at http://www.hopewellbasketball.net
Bulldogs Boot Camp, HBA offers 2 pre seasons get in shape before the school/travel tryouts. Lady Bulldog Boot Camp with Bob Tanguay and the Boys Bulldog Boot Camp with Jack Wolff. Both camps will get you in shape for your tryouts. Don’t be huffing and puffing at the tryouts. More coming soon.
Real Deal Camp, HBA offers a pre season camp for the younger kids grades 3rd to 5th. This camp is 2 3 hours sessions on Saturdays in November. More coming soon.
Travel Basketball, HBA will run travel basketball teams from the 4th to 8th grade for boys and girls both A & B teams. Coaches meeting will be in August and player tryouts will be in October/November.HBA offers its New Online Store for all your travel and rec basketball needs. Just order you travel uniform and it is delivered to your door.
HBA Anniversary Special 2010 Winter Hoops To help celebrate our 7th year of providing basketball programs to the youth of our community, Hopewell Basketball Association will be reducing its price to $100 for all players who sign up for the Winter Hoops program before October 1st (regular price $130). You still get the same great experience but at the anniversary special price. Play basketball the way it should be Played!!! Why Play HBA Basketball? Because we teach you Basketball.
7-1-10
HBA Camps 2010
Shoot it Better Mini Camp
With 4 years under its belt with the Shoot it Better Mini Camp, looks like they will be coming back for a 5th season next year. HBA will bring back NBA Coach Hal Wissel and NBA scout Scott Wissel next season to teach the art of shooting the basketball.
The New Basketball World Summer Camp gets Thumbs Up.
The votes are in and HBA’s first Basketball World Summer camp was a success. The NBA’s Advanced Scout for the Los Angeles Clippers Scott Wissel was at the Timberlane Middle school gym for a 3 day NBA skills camp teaching basketball to HBA’s first group of camper. Keep an eye out for this camp in 2011. Learn basketball from the pros.
4-28-10
HBA Anniversary Special 2010 for Winter Hoops
To help celebrate our 8th year of providing basketball programs to the youth of our community, Hopewell Basketball Association will be reducing its price to $100 for all players who sign up for the Winter Hoops program before October 1st (regular price $130). You still get the same great experience but at the anniversary special price. Play basketball the way it should be Played! http://www.hopewellbasketball.com/115061.html
2-2-10
HBA Brings NBA Basketball World Camp to Pennington
The Hopewell Basketball Association is excited to bring the nationally popular Basketball World Summer Camp to Pennington, NJ this summer. The camp, which is run by former and current NBA coaches and scouts Hal, Scott and Paul Wissel, will run the week of June 28th to July 2nd. They have 38 years experience conducting basketball camps and clinics. Each camper will receive individual instruction (one staff member for every eight campers) and a personal evaluation of their skills, so sign up now as there will be limited enrollment. The camp will be held at the Timberlane Middle School Gyms from 9am to 4pm. The cost of the camp is $275 per camper. Boys and girls from 8 to 18 years of age can attend. For More info click on the URL http://www.hopewellbasketball.net/8.html
June 27th and 28th The Votes Are In and Again
For the 3rd straight year the Shoot it Better Mini Camp has gotten 2 thumbs up votes from parents and campers. NBA coach Hal Wissel has done it again. Hal Wissel has turned 24 campers in to shooters if they follow his 21 day program. HBA will be asking coach Hal Wissel to come back for a 4th camp next June.
Links to Coach Hal Wissel
http://coachwissel.com/
HBA opens new sister website for Travel Basketball and AAU Basketball
Hopewell Basketball has decided to open up another sister website www.hopewellbasketball.org. The .org website will be hosting all the travel basketball and AAU team info and schedules. Another reason for the new website is that HBA is going to try and run a Spring Travel Basketball League along with there successful Spring Hoops Program. The Spring Travel League will start in April and end in late May or early June. Teams will start in the 4th grade to the 8th grade range for both boys and girls. The website will host the travel standings, box scored and game schedule a HBA trade mark. Stay Tuned for more to come ….
Why Play HBA? HBA has more basketball programs then any other organization in Mercer County, that’s why….
Check out the new Question and Answer page at http://www.hopewellbasketball.com/101891.html
Shoot it Better Mini Camp
It’s Official, for the second year in a row the Shoot it Better Mini Camp got 2 thumbs up from parents and kids. You can not beat the price if you want to learn to shoot the basketball the correct way. NBA coach Hal Wissel gave personal instructions to 36 kids on how to shoot the ball the correct way. The Shoot it Better Mini Camp is a 2 day camp consisting of learning the fundamental of shooting. The kids learned positive self-talk, relaxation, visualization, and concentration and goal setting. HBA is considering bring Coach Hal Wissel back to run a full week camp in Summer 2009. More to come as we get more info.
HBA Opens Doors to 3rd and 4th Graders.
It’s official, HBA will be opening our doors to all 3rd and 4th grade boys and girls come this fall 2008. Now HBA will be accepting registrations for our Winter Hoops basketball program from grades 3rd to 12th. HBA has accepted the 3rd and 4th graders in there Spring Hoops program for the last 3 seasons. But in fall 2008 our Winter Hoops Basketball program will be growing.
One may ask why play basketball for HBA? Well for a number of reasons, first we are dedicated to just basketball, not other sports. We offer more basketball programs then any other organization in Mercer County. Our coaches all have played organized basketball and know the game and are ready to teach your child. We offer more games for less money and have no membership fees. We have 6 to 8 free clinics a year where your child can learn more about the game. Our website is updated daily with write ups, box scores, game stats, leading scores and action pictures. Our website has the game schedule posted, NBA daily news, practice schedule, the game rules, current teams and more. If you want to lean the game, play HBA.
6-4-08
Hopewell U-9 All Stars The Hopewell U-9 All Stars took on the Trenton U-9 Boys Club at Hopewell High School last night. The Hopewell U-9 All Stars won 19 to 17 after 32 minutes of play. True Alton scored 7 points, Zack Dowdie scored 5 points, DJ Rice scored 4 points Galvin Johnson and Andrew Davanzo both added 2 points each. Pat Nally had 3 assists,and 2 rebounds, Danny Kolanohad 2 assists, 2 steal and 4 rebounds, Andrew Mormile had 4 rebounds and 1 assist. In the coming weeks the Hopewell U-9 All Stars will travel to Trenton to play the U-9 Boys Club at there home court. More to come on this later.
HBA Credit Card Registrations.
Hopewell Basketball just made life a little easer for everyone. HBA will now be accepting major credit cards, Visa and Master Card. All programs that HBA will be offering will have the Visa and Master Card icons at the top of the registration page.
Just click on these icons and it will take you to the online registration page for credit cards. Just fill in the info and submit it. With in 5 minutes of completing the registration you will receive an email conformation of registration
Programs
HBA is gearing up for the fall/winter basketball programs, which can be seen on the News Page. Very soon HBA will have online registration and we will be accepting major credit cards for all our programs. HBA is now accepting registrations for the Winter Hoops Basketball program. Play Winter Hoops and Learn the Game.
HBA has been working hard in bring the community to bring you the best in new basketball programs. With the success of the Shoot it Better mini camp with NBA coach Hal Wissel. HBA will be looking to bring this camp back again next year. Camper who attended gave this camp two thumbs up. Keep an eye out for the next camp.
Adult Men’s Basketball League – 30 years of age and over can play in this league. Team roster must be no more then 15 players. Game s will be played on Monday nights at the Timberlane Middle School. Cost $
Adult Men’s Basketball League- 18 to 30 years of age can play in this league. Team roster must be no more then 15 players. Game s will be played on Monday nights at the Timberlane Middle School. Cost $
For more info on any of the programs listed, please go to www.hopewellbasketball.com or www.hopewellbasketball.net or send email to ask@hopewellbasketball.com or call 609-540-3949
To watch the video highlights of the Eagles vs the HBA All Stars, click on the URL below.
http://www.wzbntv25.com/WZBN%20News%20Video%20Player.html Then go to WZBN Sports, then Misc/Features, then Philadelphia Eagles invade Hopewell.
More info on the Eagles vs HBA All Stars http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/homeNewsDetail.jsp?id=66472
More Photos of the Eagles vs HBA All Stars taken By Mike Schwartz http://www.photoreflect.com/pr3/ThumbPage.aspx?e=2906006&g=01&s=75 or go to http://www.hopewellbasketball.com/73676.html to see the HBA Spring Hoops All Star weekend pictures
School Board Approves Contract with Hopewell Basketball
To read the whole story please click on the URL www.hvrsd.k12.nj.us/district/news/HWBBContract.htm