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Acquiris Quodcumque Rapis

Proper Preparation not only Prevents Poor Performance, it puts us in a position to succeed. That is our goal!

Our Teams are in a focused training program to become professionals, albeit in something other than basketball. Their route will take them through one of the many fine colleges or universities renowned for their high standards of academic excellence and the proven success of their basketball program.

Our basketball players are focused on the end-goal of becoming professionals, at which time basketball will still be played for passion after all their work is done for the day. Like everything they do, they take it seriously and perform with both full effort and enthusiasm. That approach has gotten them to where they are today and is what will drive and motivate them on their own personal roads towards success.

Over the past 17 years, players involved with the programs have gone on to play (or are on their way to playing) at Williams, Middlebury, Bowdoin, Colby, Bates, Hamilton, Tufts, Wesleyan, Trinity, Connecticut College, Sarah Lawrence, Union, Hobart, Ithaca, RPI, Vassar, Bard, Clarkson, St Lawrence, Skidmore, MIT, WPI, Babson, Clark, Springfield, Emerson, Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore, Haverford, Dickinson, Franklin & Marshall, Muhlenberg, Washington College, Washington & Lee, NYU, Brandeis, Chicago, Emory, Rochester, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western, Washington University, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Caltech, Occidental, Puget Sound, Colorado College, Macalester, St Olaf’s, Grinnell, Lawrence, Kenyon, Denison, Oberlin, Allegheny, Ohio Wesleyan, Sewanee, Rhodes, Birmingham Southern, Earlham, Hartwick, Gordon, Geneseo, Stevens, John Jay, Hunter, Susquehanna, Chatham, Emmanuel, Suffolk, Curry, RIC, Keuka, Franklin Pierce, American, Rice, Depaul, Fairfield, Furman, Vanderbilt, Elon, Holy Cross, Colgate, Binghamton, UMBC, Monmouth, Sacred Heart, Quinnipiac, FDU, Maryland, UConn and Duke (2).

In addition to the basketball players, several members are at schools in these same conferences and haven chosen to play a different sport. However they got there, the exclamation mark is on their success in having gotten into the schools of their respective choices.

OUR STORY

Our Teams are in a focused training program to become professionals, albeit in something other than basketball. Their route will take them through one of the many fine colleges or universities renowned for their high standards of academic excellence and the proven success of their basketball program.

Our basketball players are focused on the end-goal of becoming professionals, at which time basketball will still be played for passion after all their work is done for the day. Like everything they do, they take it seriously and perform with both full effort and enthusiasm. That approach has gotten them to where they are today and is what will drive and motivate them on their own personal roads towards success.

This is our story – the Academic Basketball Club, Stamford Connecticut USA. Founded 2008.

We have two 17u Teams comprised of players in the 10th and 11th grades with a minimum GPA of 3.3 recommended to play. Our players are headed to prestigious academic colleges, primarily targeting the NESCAC, UAA, Liberty, NEWMAC, Centennial, NCAC, MIAC, SCIAC, MWC, CCC, MAC and ODAC in D-3. Some players will hopefully achieve recruitment by the NE 10, Ivy and Patriot Leagues if we can help them develop to that level. To this point, we play our schedule of tournaments and exposure events chasing access to and playing in front of coaches from these schools, relentlessly and with the same enthusiasm and focus with which our players attack every assignment and task with.

Over the past dozen+ years, players involved with the programs have gone on to play (or are on their way to playing) at every NESCAC (except Amherst which we look forward to remedying), UAA, Centennial, Liberty, NEWMAC (with multiple to MIT but none yet to USCGA), Sarah Lawrence, McGill, W&L, Grinnell, Claremont McKenna, Pomona, Occidental, Oberlin, Kenyon, Macalester, Carleton, Stevens, Colorado College, Sewanee, Rhodes, Geneseo, American, Holy Cross, Colgate, Rice, Vanderbilt, Maryland, Elon, Depaul, Fairfield, Furman, Binghamton, UMBC, Monmouth, Sacred Heart, FDU, Quinnipiac, UConn, Duke (2) and Caltech. In addition to the basketball players, several members haven chosen to play a different sport in these same conferences. However they got there, the exclamation mark is on their success in having gotten into the schools of their respective choices.  Especially when they choose Georgetown, BC, Stanford or an Ivy to go to school – we’ve had a lot of very smart kids!

We would like to make a statement on the matter of rules, compliance and the actions of others that have caused many to take issue with AAU basketball in the macro, which is why we are eschewing identification with aau and referring to the genre as Grassroots, and with a team or coach in the micro: Not only do we know the rules (both the letter and spirit) we wholeheartedly pledge/endeavor/mandate ourselves to follow them without fail every day that ends in a “y.” We maintain a higher standard for ourselves than others expect of us. In all matters, we live by the Golden Rule in addition to Rules #1 and 2.