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2024 Konya College Prospect Camp Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The 2024 Konya College Prospect Camp will host a combination of college players and high school aged college prospects on Sunday, July 28th. This camp is open to D2and D3 college coaches. It will be featuring up to 50 players who are collegiate ready. The Konya program has placed over 200 players in the past years, so th... Read more
2024 Nike EYBL Peach Jam Top Performers
By David Cordova, This past week ending July 21, we continued our visits to the big Southern AAU Live Period tournaments, by getting to the Riverview Park Activities Center in North Augusta, South Carolina for the Nike EYBL Peach Jam. This event is the undisputed national championship for the teams of Nike EYBL circuit. Throughout the week, we ... Read more
2024 Team Ready Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Ready Inc. is a small non profit, charitable organization headquartered in New Haven, CT. It is organized to provide educational assistance and recreation for disengaged youth in the Greater New Haven region. Several years ago, it added a grassroots basketball program under the name of Team Ready. They are currently as... Read more
2024 3SSB Palmetto Road Championships Standouts
By David Cordova, On the weekend of July 13/14, we joined the migration of Greater NYC grass roots talent down to the Rock Hill Sports and Events Center in Rock Hill, South Carolina for the Adidas 3SSB Palmetto Road Championships. This event was the final 2024 session for all of the teams that played on the 3SSB circuit. During the last couple ... Read more
2024 94 Foot Elite Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com 94 Foot Elite is a Westchester-based AAU program that was founded in 2022. It competes in the varsity high school level at tournaments and summer leagues in the metropolitan Tri-state area, including Changing Youth Basketball League, The Valley Basketball Classic, and the Riverdale Summer Classic. The 18u team is c... Read more
2024 MADE Hoops East Summer Clash Standouts
By David Cordova, On Sunday afternoon, July 7, we swung over to the Sportika Sports facility in Manalapan, New Jersey for the MADE Hoops East Summer Clash. This was an event for many of the grassroots programs as a prelude for the NCAA July Live Period. Here are some of the standouts from the event from the New York City and New England areas: ... Read more
2024 New Haven Heat-Made Hoops 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New Haven Heat is a highly regarded developer of college-bound talent in the basketball rich Greater New Haven, CT region. Doc Kennedy runs the program and coaches their 17u Made Hoops circuit level team. Here is the New Haven Heat Made Hoops 17u roster for this season: (Clicking on the... Read more
2024 Rens United/Riverside Hawks Select College Night Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com On Monday, July 8th, Rens United, Riverside Select, and Rising Stars will host a college night with upwards of 50 prospects, as profiled below. The event is open to all Division II and III coaches who wish to attend. Packets will be provided containing contact information and gpa for each player. The event will be h... Read more
2024 Manhattan Sports Summer League Standouts
By David Cordova, Since 2011, One of Greater NYCs hardest working event operators, Lucky Brannon of Manhattan Sports has brought in a terrific variety of teams to play in his summer league at the House of Sports in Ardsley, NY. In addition, to running the games, Brannon brings terrific effort in getting the student athletes exposure in the for... Read more
2024 Nassau Pride 17u-Vieux Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Nassau Pride Hoops, founded in 2013, is a Long Island-based AAU basketball organization offered for boys and girls of multiple age brackets. Their more experienced teams will compete in many of the top tournaments in the Tri-state area. While the Pride develops enhanced skillsets, they also place a great emphasis on te... Read more
2024 6th Boro Hoops-Bajana Player Profiles
RecruiTheBronx@gmail.com 6th Boro Hoops is a long-term oriented program with the goal of holistically developing their players. The program was founded and is directed by Nihad Musovic, a four year player at Fordham Prep ‘11, Fordham University ‘15 and two year member of the Montenegrin National Team. Two of their 2024 teams are... Read more
No Days Off Training Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Steven Johnston is an independent player development coach and founder of No Days Off Training LLC (aka NODAT Training). Purpose of NODAT is to provide comprehensive, high-quality basketball training that merges physical skill enhancement with holistic practices that nurture mindfulness, resilience, and a balanced lif... Read more
2024 CHSAA Team Camp Top Performers
By David Cordova, This past weekend, June 28 and 29, we joined the college coach migration to Iona Preparatory School out in New Rochelle for the annual Catholic High School Athletic Association Team Camp, in which all 31 Catholic schools within the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County all competed, as an audition for a chance... Read more
The TS-S Scouting Report 7/2/24
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Ty Staples-Santos Sr. is a player development coach and Co-Founder of New England Supreme Basketball Academy. He is also now a contributing scout for RecruitTheBronx.com, focused on exposing under-the-radar talent from the ranks of Connecticut basketball. Below, we detail his recap of a couple of the college level pote... Read more
2024 NY vs. NY Top Performers Week 2
By David Cordova, On Tuesday, June 25, we rolled on to Gershwin Park in the East New York section of Brooklyn for the second stop of NY vs. NY, as there were two games that were played on that night. In the first game, the Bronx-based Watson Classic routed the Harlem-based Tri-State Classic. In the second game, the home-team, Gersh Park, the d... Read more
2024 PSAL Team Camp Showcase Top Performers
By David Cordova, On Saturday, June 22, we joined a throng of college coaches in the audience at the Major Owens Center in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn for the 2024 PSAL College Exposure Team Showcase, in which schools from the 2A, 3A and 4A classifications, all came to audition for earning a college uniform. Here are the standouts fro... Read more2024 NY vs. NY Top Performers Week 1
By David Cordova, On Tuesday, June 18, we were at the world-famous Rucker Park in Harlem for the first stop of NY vs. NY, the annual tournament put together by Nike and Game Seven Marketing. The competing teams are comprised of players representing the six Nike-sponsored tournaments (Tri-State Classic, Dyckman, Gersh Park, Lincoln Park, West 4... Read more
2024 Gary Sims Day Top Performers
By David Cordova, On Sunday afternoon, June 16, we got to Edmonds Playground in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn for the high school game for the annual Gary Sims Day, powered by NYC Prospects. In this game, many talented players from the city & surrounding areas all came out to play for a great cause in celebrating the life of the late ... Read more
2024 Fordham Team Camp Top Performers
By David Cordova, On Saturday afternoon, June 15, we were at the Bronx’s Atlantic 10 Conference entry, Fordham University in The Bronx for their annual Team Camp. High school varsity teams from around the region gathered to get in some summer game play. In this event, games were played across five courts in Rose Hill Gym and the Lombardi ... Read more
2024 The Pound Invitational Top Performers
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com On Saturday, June 15, the inaugural “The Pound Invitational” was held at the newly renovated Yosemite Park in Greenburgh, NY. It was a beautiful day for some outdoor hoops in Westchester County. The event was created by Greenburgh’s Fred Bowers and his partners: D’andre Tilford, Jaleel Barr, David Slater an... Read moreThe TS-S Scouting Report 6/12/24
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Ty Staples-Santos Sr. is a player development coach and Co-Founder of New England Supreme Basketball Academy. He is also now a contributing scout for RecruitTheBronx.com, focused on exposing under-the-radar talent from the ranks of Connecticut basketball. Below, we detail his first submission of under-recruited, colleg... Read more
2024 Iona Team Camp Standouts
By David Cordova, On Saturday afternoon, June 8, we got to the Hynes Athletic Center on the campus of Iona University in New Rochelle for the Iona Team Camp. High school teams from the Tri-state area came out to play against each other in a set of games throughout the weekend. Here are the standouts from the event: Kai Harvey 5-6, Point Guar... Read more
2024 Team Finesse Varsity Player Profiles
By RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Team Finesse, founded and coached by Austin Carretta of Finesse Hoops Training and Finesse Fitness Gym in Wallingford, Connecticut, is a new basketball program with a big goal: to become a leading force in providing an avenue for Connecticut basketball players to get opportunities for higher education and basketbal... Read more
2024 IS8 Spring Classic Championship Standouts
By David Cordova On Sunday, June 2, we were at Eagle Academy III in Jamaica, Queens for the semifinals and championship games of IS8 Spring Classic. In all three games, the competition level was high and the games were very competitive from start to finish. In the first game, The Bronx-based Kips Bay played a strong game against the Long Isla... Read more
2024 Rens United CT 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rens United is an high academic oriented team affiliated with the renown NY Rens program. The program is New York City based but players are sourced from multiple states. They have a strong history of sending athletes to high-academic universities at all three levels across the northeast. The 2024 Rens United CT tea... Read more
2024 Connecticut Elite 17u - Perrier Player Profiles
RecruittTheBronx@gmail.com Connecticut Elite is the largest premier youth basketball and development program in Connecticut. Their 2024 17u HGSL team is coached by Albertus Magnus College Assistant coach and Elite 50 Showcase operator, Jason “JP” Perrier, and below is his roster. Ryan Tolliver (2025) 6’7 wing, Northwest Catholic... Read more
2024 Castle Athletics 16u-Herc Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Castle Athletics is a New York City based youth athletics program that is run by a deep and impressive staff. The Castle basketball program provides seasoned and respected coaches, superior training and opportunities to compete at the highest level. Their student athletes also participate in required weekly tutoring se... Read more
2024 King Hoops Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com King Hoops is a New York City based AAU program with kids from all five boroughs and is loaded with college basketball talent across all levels. Follow KING Hoops on Instagram and Twitter @KINGHoopsNY. College scouts can reach out to Coach Josh Horowitz at josh@kinghoops.org to inquire about the Kings Hoops program a... Read more
2024 Kings County Classic Top Performers
By David Cordova, On Monday, May 20, the place to be was Thomas Jefferson Educational Campus in East New York, Brooklyn for the inaugural Kings County Classic, established by the Brooklyn-based NYC Prospects. In this event, players from the borough that played in the PSAL 4A division all came out to showcase their talent. Here are the standouts... Read more
2024 Nike EYBL Session 3 Standouts
By David Cordova, On Saturday, May 18, we traveled to the Pacers Athletic Center out in Westfield, IN for Session 3 of the Nike EYBL Three programs from the New York City area, PSA Cardinals, New Heights Lightning and the New York Rens, plus upstate New York’s City Rocks and New England’s Expressions Elite we’re playing. This spring all ... Read more
Coach Naclerio’s Underrecruited 2024s
RecruitTheBronx.com The 2024 pre-occupation of college coaches with scouting the upperclassman transfer portal has left many worthy class of 2024 high schoolers under-scouted and underrecruited. On May 20, a RecruitTheBronx.com editor caught a social media comment from NYC PSAL’s winningest coach Ron Naclerio saying that college coaches a... Read more2024 IS8 Playoffs - First Round Top Performers
By David Cordova, On Wednesday night, May 15, the place to be was Intermediate School 8 in Jamaica, Queens for the start of the playoffs at IS8, one of New York City’s most prestigious tournaments. In both first-round games, there were some talented players on the court and the games were super-competitive. In the first game, there would ... Read more
2024 Boys2Men Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Long Island’s Boys2Men (NY) is an AAU program providing high school athletes with the knowledge and skills to advance beyond the borders of the basketball court. Established in 2016 by Adurramahn Kareem, LI Boys2Men has grown to support players across Long Island and surrounding areas from grades 8th-12th under c... Read more
2024 Hoops Showdown Top Performers
By David Cordova, On Saturday afternoon, May 11, we were at the Bronx River Community Center for the annual Hoops Showdown event in which some of the city’s finest players came to play in three games. They were competitively played. When it was all said and done, it was Team Rundown who emerged victorious and won this year’s event. ... Read more
2024 Academic Basketball Club 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Academic Basketball Club is a Fairfield (CT) and Westchester (NY) County grassroots program focused on working with student athletes with a minimum gpa of 3.0. The program has earned renown for its impressive consistently high level of placement of its layers into top academic universities. ABC plays in tournaments... Read more
IS8 2024 Team Long Island
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Team Long Island is a completely sponsored team designed to showcase Long Island’s best basketball players and show the basketball community that Long Island’s best can play with anybody. They qualified for their 14th straight IS8 Playoffs this spring and have advanced to two Final Fours and one Championship Game. ... Read more
2024 Select Hoops 16u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Select Hoops is a new and up and coming grassroots program located in Queens with players being from all across the five boroughs and upstate. Their players are being recruited by multiple D3 and D2 schools. The program is founded by Kew Forest School Boys Varsity Coach, Noah Griffith. The goal is to create an atmos... Read more
2024 Mt Vernon Elite 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Mount Vernon Elite program was created by the Boys & Girls Club of Mount Vernon. Entrusted with their code of conduct and principles, The Mount Vernon Elite has branched off into a separate entity. The Mount Vernon Elite program has flourish beyond expectations. The Mount Vernon Elite basketball program offers ... Read more
2024 Lightning Amateur Basketball Club Defenders 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Lightning Amateur Basketball Club in its second year of existence playing on the UA Circuit led by its Director Artie Cox. Cox is a well known coach in the NYC area coaching many years in the CHSAA at Christ the King and Monsignor McClancy. He also has many years coaching AAU basketball at a handful of teams like ... Read more
2024 Humble Development Open Runs Top Performers
By David Cordova, On Friday night, May 3, we made a visit to Benjamin Banneker Academy in the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn for the Humble Development Open Runs, in which many of talented players from throughout the City came out to play in an open gym setting and improve on their games while also playing competitively against other talented ... Read more
2024 Level UP LI 16u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Level Up LI is in its seventh year and is one of the fastest growing youth travel AAU basketball programs in the tri-state NY area. Their mission is to create the top travel basketball teams focusing heavily on individual and team development for their players both on and off the basketball court. The primary focus is ... Read more2024 Level UP LI 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Level Up LI is in its seventh year and is one of the fastest growing youth travel AAU basketball programs in the tri-state NY area. Their mission is to create the top travel basketball teams focusing heavily on individual and team development for their players both on and off the basketball court. The primary focus is ... Read more
New York Lighting 17u - LaBrew Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New York Lightning (NYL) is one of the region’s most highly regarded grassroots programs, known for producing high talent, high character college-bound players and being stacked with a deep bench of excellent coaches. The program is co-directed by Dana Dingle and Shandue McNeill. Their 17u team that is coached by... Read more2024 Nike EYBL Session1 Top Performers
By David Cordova, On the April 26/28 weekend, we caught a flight to Memphis, TN and then got to the Memphis Sports & Events Center for the first session of the Nike EYBL circuit. Four teams from the New York City area (PSA Cardinals, New York Rens, New Heights Lightning and Marston Elite-Rens United), Albany’s City Rocks team and Ex... Read more
2024 114 All Stars 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Gary Burrell aka “G Money” started 114 All Stars five years ago. In that time, he has sent or helped send over 25 kids to college through basketball. 95% of those were on scholarship. He humbly named his first team of only six players, after his home street address “114” in Queens. He focuses on... Read more
2024 Athletic Club of Connecticut 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Athletic Club of Connecticut was founded in 2018 by Donnell Harvey. Player development, coaching, and competition are the building blocks to the program. AC Connecticut Basketball emphasizes the importance of teamwork, sportsmanship, and education. The program is driven by what is best for the child: whether in a ... Read more
2024 Rising Stars 16u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rising Stars was founded by Paul Savramis in the early 1980’s as a series of summer camps but has since been on a 20-year journey of changing the lives of countless youths and their families. Today, Rising Stars is staffed with dozens of dedicated professionals and is considered of the elite, educationally-centered y... Read more
2024 CT Takeover 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com CT TakeOver is grass roots program for ages 7-17 years old. Since being established in 2019, Takeover has provided year round training and high level competitive basketball. The program’s mindset is to help as many student athletes get to the next level as possible. It’s working, They already now have multi... Read more
2024 Heat Elite 17u Black Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Heat Elite, also known as Seaford Heat, is a Nassau County based grassroots program. The club’s mission is to benefit youth through the sport of basketball. What began as one local town team has now grown into one of the more prominent programs in Long Island. Under the leadership of program director, and St Domi... Read more
2024 DTX Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com DTX Basketball is a Connecticut based grass roots program that is focused on helping student-athletes who have a goal of playing basketball at the collegiate level. Spots on their National teams are earned, not given. Athletes are developed to play utilizing fundamental skills and a high basketball I.Q., two critical r... Read more2024 Heat Elite Player 17u Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Heat Elite, also known as Seaford Heat, is a Nassau County based grassroots program. The club’s mission is to benefit youth through the sport of basketball. What began as one local town team has now grown into one of the more prominent programs in Long Island. Under the leadership of program director, and St Domi... Read more
2024 Team Underrated Rosters
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Team Underrated is one of long Island Longest running independent AAU/ Travel programs. It was founded by Shots with Patience Prep head coach, Andre Edwards. 15u Roster Aiden Jones (2027) 6’3 small forward, Academy Charter Mike Cancel (2027) 6’0 small forward, Bayshore High King Ja... Read more
2024 Unsigned Hype Showcase Standouts
By David Cordova, On April 12, the place to be was the George Westinghouse High School in downtown Brooklyn for the Unsigned Hype Showcase Games, a showcase for high school seniors in New York City and surrounding areas that are in search of a college scholarship. Coaches from Division II, Division III & junior college schools were all in a... Read more
2024 Nate Blue Showcase Standouts
By David Cordova, On April 11, we made it to Louis D. Brandeis Educational Campus on the Upper West Side of Manhattan for the annual Nate Blue Showcase, which featured many of New York City’s best up and coming talent in one game and two games for the senior class of 2024. College coaches from NCAA Division II, Division III & NJCAA (junio... Read more
2024 Pro Level Titans 17u Elite Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Pro Level Titans are a New York City based grass roots program that strives to educate athletes and build life-enrichment skills such as work ethic, commitment, self-motivation, integrity, perseverance, and self-discipline. The program motivates, inspires, and pushes their athletes to the max in every practice. Giving ... Read more
2024 Riverside Church Hawks 16u-Irizarry Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Riverside Hawks, one of NYC’s most storied programs, was founded by the historic Riverside Church in the early 1960’s. The program’s mission is still to help students and families use basketball to pursue academic opportunities and to promote their character development. Their Class of 2026 (16u) ... Read more
2024 PVO Elite 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com PVO Elite basketball program is an affiliation of the Positive Vibes Community Group. PVO strives to help high school athletes achieve their dreams of playing college basketball. The 2024 17u team is coached by Jerome Austin and his assistant coach, Benny Mermelstein. The PVO Elite 17u basketball team features some out... Read more
2024 PSA Cardinals 16u EYBL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com ProScholars Athletics is a nationally renown grass roots basketball program, based in New York City. Their main objective is to use team sports as platforms to not only showcase their student’s athletic gifts but to expose them to greater social and academic opportunities that ensure they can succeed at the colle... Read more
2024 New Heights15u EYBL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New Heights is a sports-based youth development organization that creates opportunities for youth to rise to their potential on the basketball court, in the classroom and in their communities. Their mission is to educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing... Read more2024 New Heights 16u EYBL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com New Heights is a sports-based youth development organization that creates opportunities for youth to rise to their potential on the basketball court, in the classroom and in their communities. Their mission is to educate and empower promising underserved youth to be leaders, champions and student-athletes by developing... Read more
2024 New Heights Lightning 17u EYBL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Two of the most storied programs in New York City grassroots basketball history have again teamed up again this year to field a combined team on the EYBL circuit. New Heights and the New York Lightning playing under the New Heights Lightning flag. New Heights Lightning 17u EYBL team is coached by Shandue McNeill. Hi... Read more
2024 NY Gauchos 3SSB 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New York Gauchos Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball program offers youth in New York City the highest quality athletic programming, academic support and enrichment, and opportunities for lifelong success. Their goals are to produce athletes who can play basketball at the highest competitive levels, and to cult... Read more2024 Riverside Church Hawks 17u-Colon Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Riverside Hawks, one of NYC’s most storied programs, was founded by the historic Riverside Church in the early 1960’s. The program’s mission is still to help students and families use basketball to pursue academic opportunities and to promote their character development. Their 17u team is coached ... Read more
2024 NY Rens United-Becil College Prospects
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rens United is an high academic oriented team affiliated with the renown NY Rens program. The program is New York City based but players are sourced from multiple states. They have a strong history of sending athletes to high-academic universities at all three levels across the northeast. The 2025s team is head coac... Read more
2025 Wiz Kids 16u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com In 1990, following a successful professional and collegiate basketball career, Clarence, “Mugsy” Leggett began his journey to being a community leader. His desire to make a positive impact on children is inspired by his years spent growing up in the education system and playgrounds of New York City. He quickly deve... Read more
2024 Empire Youth Athletics 16u-Haggerty Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Empire Youth Athletics is based out of Long Island, NY. Their goal is to mold their players into hard-working, coachable individuals by providing a high quality coaching and training experience for them. This 16u team is coached by St Francis Prep assistant varsity coach, Brian Haggerty. They are participating in t... Read more2024 Empire Youth Athletics 17u-Cavallaro Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Empire Youth Athletics is based out of Long Island, NY. Their goal is to mold their players into hard-working, coachable individuals by providing a high quality coaching and training experience for them. This 17u team is coached by Joe Cavallaro, Harborfields High varsity coach. He studied at St. John’s Unive... Read moreLightning Amateur Basketball Club Defenders 2026 Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Assistant Varsity Coach at Christ the King (27 years); former Freshmen Coach at Monsignor McClancy, Coach Artie Cox has helped build and guide a number of high-profile AAU programs throughout his many years of coaching including Riverside BQ Express, Team Odom, NY Rens and now the Lightning Amateur Basketball Club. LAB... Read more
2024 Hoop Group Long Island Warmup Top Performers
By David Cordova, On Saturday, April 6, we paid a visit to the Island Garden facility in West Hempstead, Long Island for the Hoop Group Long Island Warmup, which was a showcase that marked the start of the AAU season for many of the teams. Many of the teams were from the Tri-state area and showed plenty of promise on the court that will bode w... Read more2024 New Haven Heat-Made Hoops 16u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New Haven Heat is a highly regarded developer of college-bound talent in the basketball rich Greater New Haven, CT region. Doc Kennedy runs the program and Lawrence McGill, assistant coach at Amistad High, coaches their 16u Made Hoops circuit level team. Here is the New Haven Heat Made Hoops 16u roster for this... Read more
2024 City Rocks EYBL 17u Player Profiles
RecruittTheBronx@gmail.com In 1993 Jim Hart along with four other area coaches started the City Rocks program. Now entering their 20th season, City Rocks field over 20 teams made up from over 200 boys and girls from Upstate New York and beyond. They have achieved National acclaim and are widely considered a Top 20 AAU program in the USA. They h... Read more
2024 Crown Basketball 17u HGSL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The Crown Basketball program is based out of Long Island. It is a highly respected program with experienced coaches who are developing talent at all ages. The 17u HGSL team is coached by the program head, Chris Diasparra, a former assistant coach and player at Adelphi University. The 2024 Crown Basketball 17u HGSL ... Read more
2024 CM3 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com CM3 is a New York City based AAU program founded by Charles Melone. Melone is also the Director of Athletics at the Variety Boys and Girls Club in Astoria Queens. Their 17u team is coached by Dr. Ken Hoyte, assistant coach at Brooklyn Collegiate High. The 2024 CM3 17u roster is below: Jaziah Luckie-Carter (2025)... Read more
2024 Project Triple Threat 16u HGSL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Project Triple Threat (PTT) is a Connecticut’s grass roots basketball club, founded by Choate Rosemary Hall varsity coach, Drew Dawson. With a number of programs to meet the needs of various ages and abilities including player development training, camps and clinics and club teams, PTT is recognized as one of the mos... Read more2024 NY Gauchos 3SSB 16u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New York Gauchos Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball program offers youth in New York City the highest quality athletic programming, academic support and enrichment, and opportunities for lifelong success. Their goals are to produce athletes who can play basketball at the highest competitive levels, and to cult... Read more2024 NY Gauchos 3SSB 15u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New York Gauchos Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) basketball program offers youth in New York City the highest quality athletic programming, academic support and enrichment, and opportunities for lifelong success. Their goals are to produce athletes who can play basketball at the highest competitive levels, and to cult... Read more2024 Project Triple Threat 17u HGSL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Project Triple Threat (PTT) is a Connecticut’s grass roots basketball club, founded by Choate Rosemary Hall varsity coach, Drew Dawson. With a number of programs to meet the needs of various ages and abilities including player development training, camps and clinics and club teams, PTT is recognized as one of the mos... Read more2024 Wiz Kids 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com In 1990, following a successful professional and collegiate basketball career, Clarence, “Mugsy” Leggett began his journey to being a community leader. His desire to make a positive impact on children is inspired by his years spent growing up in the education system and playgrounds of New York City. He quickly deve... Read more
2024 Rising Kings Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Theory 9 is a non-profit organization that focuses on the growth and well being of the Kingsbridge community, located in the northeast section of the Bronx. Established in 2019, the organization has hosted many holiday events, basketball tournaments and school drives for the neighborhood. They also run a grassroots bas... Read more2024 Project Triple Threat 17u Select Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Project Triple Threat (PTT) is a Connecticut’s grass roots basketball club, founded by Choate Rosemary Hall varsity coach, Drew Dawson. With a number of programs to meet the needs of various ages and abilities including player development training, camps and clinics and club teams, PTT is recog... Read more2024 PSA Cardinals 15u EYBL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com ProScholars Athletics is a nationally renown grass roots basketball program, based in New York City. Their main objective is to use team sports as platforms to not only showcase their student’s athletic gifts but to expose them to greater social and academic opportunities that ensure they can succeed at the colle... Read more2024 Rising Stars 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rising Stars was founded by Paul Savramis in the early 1980’s as a series of summer camps but has since been on a 20-year journey of changing the lives of countless youths and their families. Today, Rising Stars is staffed with dozens of dedicated professionals and is considered of the elite, educationally-centered y... Read more2024 PSA Cardinals 17u EYBL Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com ProScholars Athletics is a nationally renown grass roots basketball program, based in New York City. Their main objective is to use team sports as platforms to not only showcase their student’s athletic gifts but to expose them to greater social and academic opportunities that ensure they can succeed at the colle... Read more
2024 NY Renaissance EYBL 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The New York Renaissance, also known as the Rens, were the first black-owned, all-black, fully-professional basketball team in history, established in 1923. The present NY Renaissance focuses on continuing to turn amateurs into professionals - the right way. They are a youth development organization, created by filmmak... Read more
2024 CHSAA vs. PSAL Champions Challenge Top Performers
By David Cordova, This past week, we paid a visit to the Steinberg Wellness Center on the campus of LIU Brooklyn in downtown Brooklyn for the inaugural CHSAA vs. PSAL Champions Challenge, in which the best teams from the public and Catholic school leagues matched up against each other in multiple classifications to stake the claim as the best o... Read more
2024 Team Crate 16u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Team Crate Basketball is a Far Rockaway, Queens based program that has been around for seven years. Their mission is to teach, develop, and offer the youth of the Rockaway communities the opportunity to learn the fundamental skills of basketball while installing life lessons and values. The Rockaways are comprised of 1... Read more
2024 Chris Ward Basketball 17u White
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Chris Ward Basketball is a Westchester County based grass roots program. It’s mission is to deliver player development and opportunity for young, dedicated athletes, to learn to play the game of basketball at a highly competitive level. They are committed to each athlete, no matter what their experience; assistin... Read more2024 Select Hoops 17u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Select Hoops is a new and up and coming grassroots program located in Queens with players being from all across the five boroughs and upstate. Their players are being recruited by multiple D3 and D2 schools.The program is founded by Kew Forest School Boys Varsity Coach, Noah Griffith. The goal is to create an atmos... Read more2024 Heat Elite 16 u and 15u Player Profiles
Heat Elite, also known as Seaford Heat, is a Nassau County based grassroots program. The club’s mission is to benefit youth through the sport of basketball. What began as one local town team has now grown into one of the more prominent programs in Long Island. Under the leadership of program director, Isaiah Wilson, the program has grown to o... Read more2024 6th Boro Hoops 17u College Prospects
RecruiTheBronx@gmail.com 6th Boro Hoops is a long-term oriented program with the goal of holistically developing their players. The program was founded and is directed by Nihad Musovic, a four year player at Fordham Prep ‘11, Fordham University ‘15 and two year member of the Montenegrin National Team. He holds a Masters of Sports ... Read more2024 Rising Stars 15u Roster
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rising Stars was founded by Paul Savramis in the early 1980’s as a series of summer camps but has since been on a 20-year journey of changing the lives of countless youths and their families. Today, Rising Stars is staffed with dozens of dedicated professionals and is considered of the elite, educationally-centered y... Read more2024 NY Rens United 17u-Mega Roster
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Rens United is an high academic oriented team affiliated with the renown NY Rens program. The program is New York City based but players are sourced from multiple states such as MA, CT, NY, NH and NJ. They have a strong history of sending athletes to high-academic universities at all three levels across the northeast. ... Read more
2024 Eddie Lau Elite 16u
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Eddie Lau is a former college player, college coach and NBA agent. He is also the very successful varsity head coach at Murry Bergtraum High School in Manhattan. In the off season, he runs his Eddie Lau Academy, which includes running AAU teams. Below are the player profiles for the college prospects on his 16u team: ... Read more
2024 CIAC Coaches All Star Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com On Wednesday, March 20, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference All State Selections played in their two Senior All Star games. Click on the names of the highlighted players below to call up their their RecruitTheBronx.com profiles: The Division 1 and 2 All-Stars TEAM “MOHEGAN” Coach S... Read more
2024 Queens Defenders 14u-Diodonet Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Queens Defenders is a Queens based AAU basketball program dedicated to the development of our student athletes both on and off the court. Queens Defenders provide an opportunity for children with various skill sets to train, develop their game and increase their self confidence. The coaches in the program are committed... Read more
2024 NYC Best of the Best Tournament
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The 2024 NYC Best of the Best Tournament is an event organized by Archbishop Molloy Assistant Varsity Coach and “Da Talk” NYC basketball podcast host, Donald Francois. It will be held on March 24 at Archbishop Molloy. It is designed to give exposure and a pre-NCAA D1 Live Period warm-up to many of the best ... Read more2024 Queens Defenders 14u-Polite Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Queens Defenders is a Queens based AAU basketball program dedicated to the development of our student athletes both on and off the court. Queens Defenders provide an opportunity for children with various skill sets to train, develop their game and increase their self confidence. The coaches in the program are committed... Read more
2024 CT Elite Senior Showcase Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com The players listed below have committed to the Senior Showcase hosted by Connecticut Elite on Saturday, March 23 at the Newtown Youth Academy 4 Primrose St, Newtown, CT. The event is organized by Albertus Magnus College assistant coach and long time CT Elite Director Jason JP Perrier. Click on the highlighted playe... Read more
2023-24 All Western New England Prep Teams
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com At the conclusion of the 2023-24 season, the head coaches of eight Western New England NEPSAC prep schools polled themselves and the determined their outstanding players for the season, as shown below. These honors are prestigious in that the schools are all high academic institutions and their rosters are all teeming wi... Read more
2024 Positive Direction 14u Player Profiles
RecruitTheBronx@gmail.com Positive Direction, aka “PD Nation” is a Queens based grassroots basketball program. Under the leadership of Coach Tim Brisco and CHSAA Director JoAnn Pinnock, PD Nation is looking to match the success of its girls program and get their boys college ready as well. Tourron Whitfield, a former 2014-15 MAAC ... Read more