AYBAASCENSION YOUTH BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
AYBA
Box 1140
Prairieville, LA 70769
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Games and practices will be held at the following schools: Dutchtown Middle School, Galvez Middle School and St. Amant Middle School along with the Lamar Dixon gym. The school you register with is also the school where your child's team is based and where they will practice except for Prairieville Middle School this year. That schools' gym is not available so practices for those teams will be held at Lamar Dixon. Additionally, since Dutchtown only has one gym, some of those teams will also practice at Lamar Dixon. However, games may take place at any of the host schools. You will receive a game schedule from your child's coach in early January.
Games are held every Saturday when the season starts. Practices are scheduled by each coach, and are usually held once per week, in the evening. You will receive a practice schedule from your coach in December. Please be patient if you haven't heard from your coach, when other teams have. Not all coaches are ready to practice at the same time.
No. Children need to be at least 6 years old by December 31, 2019 to play in the 2020 season.
Games start January 11th, 2020. Practices will start in mid December with the day determined by your team's coach. Fees are $80 per child.
The 2019 season draft date is 11/16.
The draft is for all kids. Coaches and draftees assemble at their "home" school gym. Coaches make selections from the available children in their age group. Children who don't show up for the draft will be randomly assigned to a team with spaces available.There is no draft for the under 8's.
Not all coaches are ready to practice at the same time. You will be contacted by your son's coach when he/she has set up practice times with their school gym commissioner. Please be patient.
To be fair, we have a draft for all age groups except the under 8 so as a player moves up to a new age group they automatically go into the draft. We do not allow a coach to move his team up with him when he moves up to the next age group.
If your child is in the under 8 age group, we do allow you to request teammates and/or coach and there is a section on the registration website to make that request. But we have a draft for all other age groups so, to be fair, we cannot allow a parent to pick and choose what team or who they want to play with or for. Since we use four schools in different parts of the parish, if you register with the school closest to your home, there is a very good chance one or more of the parents of the children on your child's team will be able to provide transportation when you can't.
Unfortunately, we are unable to get any type of quantity discount on the services and products we purchase (insurance, officials, parish fees, uniforrms, trophies, supplies, web hosting fees) so we are unable to provide a quantity discount for our parents.
To make it easy, we use the age of your child at the end of this year to determine their age group. So even if your child's birthday is December 31st and they are only 7 when you register them, they will be 8 by the end of the year so they would be in the under 10 age group not the under 8.
Directions to all of the AYBA gyms:
Dutchtown Middle School - 13078 Hwy 73
One Gym - Parking lot located behind the school buildings.
Use the entrance on Hwy 74
Galvez Middle School - 42018 LA-933
Parking lot located off Joe Sevario Road (LA 932)
Front Gym - Located on LA-933
Back Gym - Located behind the front gym
Lamar Dixon Gymnasium - 9039 St. Landry Road
Both gyms - Large building on the left as you
drive into the main entrance.
St. Amant Middle School - 44317 Hwy 429
Front Gym - Located behind main school building
Back Gym - Located behind front gym
AYBA
Box 1140
Prairieville, LA 70769
admin