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. http://www.hopewellbasketball.net/8.html
6-8-10 Top 10 plays of Spring Hoops
HBA is looking to video tape the Top 10 plays of Spring Hoops season. If you look in the stands you will see one of HBA score keepers videotaping most of the games. After The Finals HBA will review all the video footage and pick the Top 10 Plays of the season and post them on www.hopewellbasketball.com.
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
Adult Programs
Men’s 18 and Over Basketball Program.
Monday Nights at Timberlane New gym from 8 to 10pm .
Informal Pick up Games. Great for exercise and friendly competition.
9-13-10 to 9-12-11 50 weeks Online registration at www.hopewellbasketball.net
Men’s 30 and Over Basketball Program .
Thursday nights at Timberlane Old gym from 8 to 10pm.
Informal Pick up Games. Great for exercise and friendly competition
9-16-10 to 9-15-11 50 weeks
Online registration at www.hopewellbasketball.net
Coming Soon
The Best Summer Camps in Mercer County are under Hopewell Basketball.
At Hopewell Basketball we are always looking for the best basketball camps around for our kids to attend. Below are the 3 best in Mercer County.
Billmeire Nardi Skills Camp *****
July 26th to 30th
Shoot It Better Mini Camp ****
With NBA coach Hal Wissel
Late June
NJEBA Girls Camp
NJ Elite Basketball Academy for Girls ****
With Elisa Haggarty
July 19th to 23rd
NJ Elite Basketball Academy for Girls www.njeba.com
As many of you know, Hopewell Basketball Association is always looking for the best camps for our kids. Well we believe we have found another. HBA is a proud sponsor of The Elite Basketball Academy, one of the best camps in the area for girls, founded and directed by Elisa Haggarty. Ms Haggarty is a Hopewell Valley girl’s basketball coach and brings over 6 years of collegiate playing and coaching experience to the table. NJEBA is a year round organization specializing in educating young women on the fundamentals of the game, nutrition, speed and strength training, and NCAA recruiting and eligibility. Please look to our website at www.hopewellbasketball.com for upcoming times and locations of these camps and clinics.
Remember, you can register online for all HBA’s programs. Just go to www.hopewellbasketball.com for more info.
Why Play HBA? HBA has more basketball programs then any other organization in Mercer County, that’s why….Play Basketball the way it was meant to be played. HBA Builds Basketball Players.
HBA Opens Online Store
HBA is always try to make the players life easer when it comes to basketball. First, we set up the easiest online registration for all HBA’s programs. (It’s so easy a cave man can do it). Now, HBA is opening up an online store. This store will be opening soon and it will have everything from travel basketball uniforms, practice jerseys, coach’s jerseys, sweat pants, hooded sweat shirts and tee-shirts. 80% of the store is dedicated to travel basketball and the other 20% is for Hopewell Basketball player who want to support HBA by buying tee shirts and hooded sweat shirts. The online store will be open for a limited time in October. Click on the link below to go to the store. http://sneakersplus.com/teamsproductslist.aspx?teamID=801
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 ….
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 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.
Special Events Page
Hopewell Basketball Association has added a new page to our website called the Special Events page. Take a look at this page to see what upcoming events will be coming to HBA.
Hopewell Basketball Association gets approval from Jr.NBA /Jr.WNBA
Hopewell Basketball Association (HBA) is now affiliated with the Jr. NBA /Jr. WNBA. In the future we will be bring you new and exciting basketball programs from the Jr. NBA /Jr. WNBA. The Jr. NBA / Jr. WNBA programs emphasize fundamental skill development, teamwork, sportsmanship and positive adult participation in a fun and rewarding youth basketball experience. Young players can create a bond with the game while learning what it takes to be successful away from the court. For more information on the Jr. NBA /Jr. WNBA go to http://www.nba.com/jrnba/.
Directions to the school Gyms
Hopewell Elementary School, 35 Princeton Avenue, Hopewell: Proceed around the Pennington Circle and continue to follow Rt. 31 North to Rt. 654. The road bears off to the right towards a “Hopewell” sign. Follow Rt. 654 to the Borough of Hopewell. Turn right at the light onto Princeton Avenue. Follow about 1/4 mile to Hopewell Elementary School.
Bear Tavern Elementary School, 1162 Bear Tavern Road: At the Pennington Circle go almost completely around and bear right after the Circle Liquors. Proceed about 3 1/2 miles. Make a left onto Bear Tavern Road. Follow about 1/4 mile to Bear Tavern Elementary at Bear Tavern Elementary will be on your left.
Stony Brook Elementary School, Stephenson Road: At the Pennington Circle, bear right onto Blackwell Road (immediately after the Mobil). Turn right onto Pennington-Lawrenceville Road. Turn right onto Stephenson Road. Stony Brook Elementary will be on your right.
Hopewell Valley Central High School, 252 Pennington Titusville Rd: Proceed around the Pennington Circle and continue to follow Rt. 31 North to the traffic light at Delaware Avenue (Wachovia Bank, Exxon & Pennington Market on corners). Turn left at the light. The High School is 1/4 mile on your right. Turn right after the High School.
Get All The NBA News In One Spot.
Get all the NBA news, just by going to the NEW Basketball page.
Up Coming Basketball Programs
Jr.NBA /Jr. WNBA basketball leagues coming this spring, summer, fall and winter. For more info go to the Jr.NBA/ Jr.WNBA page.
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