WINTER 2023/2024 BASKETBALL
The Brentwood Ball Club offers a basketball league from November 2023 to February 2024. Practices will start in November, games in December and the season concludes with a tournament in February.
Because we will have a limited number of registration spots, registration will close as soon as we reach the limit. This typically occurs in less than 24 hours.
Players can only play on one team. If you register for two teams, we will follow the refund policy below.
No recreation level team can have more than two varsity middle school players on one team.
How to Register
1. Click here if you do not have an account through our website and need help registering.
2. Once logged into your account, you will see Programs Available to the right of your player's name once registration opens at 6:00AM on 09/20. Click and complete all the way through the payment screen. If you do not get a confirmation email, that indicates you did not finish your registration. Log back in, click the cart icon in the upper right and complete.
3. When registering your player, we will collect parent waiver signatures along with player info such as grade, school, neighborhood, uniform size, coach request and teammate requests.
What Division to Register to
Based on their age on 09/01/23, players will have the opportunity to register for the division of their current age and typically one age group higher. We suggest unless your player is advanced, to register your player for the youngest age division offered. And we urge you in basketball where player heights can greatly differ to not play up.
Below are the divisions we offer:
TBD
Rec Division Teams
1. Teams are formed based on a draft.
2. REC Basketball Size & Goal Heights are as follows:
· 8YOs and younger will use a 27.5” basketball with 8’ goals
· 9YOs and 10YOs will use a 28.5” basketball with 9’ goals
· 11/12YO Girls will use a 28.5” basketball with 10’ goals
· 11/12YOs Boys will use a 29.5” (regulation) basketball with 10’ goals.
What the Registration Player Fees includes
1. Player reversible shirt and player shorts
2. Shirt for the head coach
3. Background checks for all head coaches (required every 3 years)
4. Practice fees to include gym supervisor pay
5. Game Day fees for scheduled games to include gym supervisors and referees
6. Cleaning supplies for gym usage
7. Game balls, scorebooks
8. End of season awards
- The 5/6yo age group will not have a tournament but each player will receive a participant award.
- Champion and runner up trophies are awarded for the in-house tournament
9. Player insurance coverage
10. Worker's comp policy coverage
Note1: The 3.4% credit card fee is paid by the person registering.
Note2: The $3 service fee (fee charged by webhost to process a registration) is paid by the person registering.
Registration fees
TBD
Any player registered after 09/27/23 will be assessed a $10 late fee.
Refunds
1. The last day to request a refund is 09/27/23. Up until that date, the registration refund supplied will be the amount paid minus the $3 service fee and minus a $20 processing fee.
2. After 09/27/23, no refund will be provided.
3. In the event of weather that results in school closing, we will attempt to make those games up if possible. We will not refund as a result of cancellations.
4. If we cannot place your player, we will refund the full amount paid minus the $3 service fee.
Uniforms
We will provide each player a uniform (shorts and shirt). Since shirts are printed and cannot be returned, if a shirt has to be replaced due to larger sizing needed than requested in the registration record, the parent is responsible for that replacement cost.
Teams can only wear the uniform provided by the Brentwood Ball Club.
Coaches
1. All of our head coaches are to create a volunteer record. Each will be required to have a background check and a clear record within the last three years.
2. Only players, the head coach and one additional assistant coach will be allowed on the bench during a game. We will provide a team shirt to the head coach, so it is clear to the officials and workers as to who the head coach is.
3. When head coaches register, they will identify the desired day of practice and the desired gym to practice at. They will be notified later as to which practice slot they are given.
Practices
1. Our practices are planned to occur at:
· Crockett Elementary
· Jordan Elementary
· Lipscomb Elementary
· Edmondson Elementary
2. Practice times per team are for 60-minute scheduled slots each week once games start.
3. When Williamson County schools are closed due to weather, practices are typically cancelled.
4. The weekly practice times will occur on Sunday or a weekday. Practice starting times on a weekday (Mon, Tues, Wed, Thur) will be as follows:
· Crockett Elementary 6:05PM, 7:05PM, 8:05PM
· Edmondson Elementary 6:00PM, 7:00PM, 8:00PM
· Lipscomb Elementary 6:05PM, 7:05PM, 8:05PM
· Jordan Elementary 6:15PM, 7:15PM, 8:15PM
5. Practice times on Sunday will start at 1:00PM, 2:00PM, 3:00PM, 4:00PM, 5:00PM
6. Teams will be paired for practices with another like team as most will use the last part of their practice to scrimmage the team at the other half court.
7. Our youngest age divisions will get the earliest start times with our oldest getting the later times.
Where Games Are Played
1. Home games will occur at one of our Brentwood gyms:
· Crockett Elementary
· Jordan Elementary
· Lipscomb Elementary
· Edmondson Elementary
· Williamson County Indoor Rec Center (920 Heritage Way)
· Brentwood Middle School
2. We expect all regular season games for 12YO & Younger Rec Division Boys to occur at one of the above Brentwood gyms. The reason for that is we expect to have more than four teams in each division, to have an even number of teams and that each week will be Brentwood versus Brentwood.
3. Games for divisions with four teams or less will play some games at Brentwood gyms and some games at gyms across Williamson County. Divisions with 4-6 teams may play only Brentwood vs Brentwood or may play some non-Brentwood teams. We will leave that with head coaches to decide.
When Games Are Played
1. League Game Days are expected as follows: Dec 2, 9, 16; Jan 6, 13, 20, 27; Feb 3
2. While games will last less than one hour, teams will typically have 5-10 minutes to warm up before a game. To note:
· 5/6YOs will play four 6-minute quarters
· 7/8YOs will play four 6-minute quarters
· 9/10YOs will play four 7-minute quarters
· 11/12YO will play four 8-minute quarters
3. The in-house tournament will start right after the last league game, Feb 4 (Sunday), and are likely to occur every day until the championships on or by Feb 10. Not every team will play the first day.
4. For those divisions we do not have an in-house tournament (those with less than 4 teams in a rec division), they will participate in the county wide tournament. It is expected to start Feb 12 and end by Feb 17.
5. We do not have a tournament for our 5/6YOs, but each player will receive a participant trophy at their last game on
Feb 4.
Key Dates
09/20 – Registration opens at 6:00AM
09/27 – Registration to be closed by this date or earlier
09/27 – Last day for a registration refund
10/17 – Team rosters to be set
11/04 – First day of practices
11/17 – Last Day of practices before Thanksgiving Break
11/26 – Practices resume after Thanksgiving Break
12/02 – First day of league games
12/15 – Last Day of practices before Christmas Break
01/02 – (Expected) Practices resume after Christmas Break
02/02 – Last day of practices
02/03 –Last league game planned
02/04 – First day of tournament games
02/10 – Last possible day of in-house tournament games
02/17 – Last possible day of county tournament games
Weather Impacts
1. When Williamson County schools are closed due to weather, practices are typically cancelled.
2. When schools are closed on Fridays due to weather, WCPR will determine by 7:30AM Saturday morning if games will be played.
3. We will update via Twitter, send an email blast, and will update our website with one of the rotating pictures to state if games are cancelled.