Thank you for your interest in BAYS Basketball. To help us quickly assess teams & build appropriately, we have a few new policies. Please read the below before proceeding. Continuing registration is your acknowledgment of these new policies.
- County Basketball - this is our travel program. Teams are built based on skill level. Buddy & Coach requests will NOT be considered. We may have 0, 1, or 2 teams for this program for each age group depending on tryout results. Tryouts for county basketball will be the weeks of 7 and 14 October, with more details to follow by the 1st of October for those who have registered, and Teams to be announced by 20 October. These tryouts are MANDATORY if you wish to play at the county level this year. Teams will practice twice a week with games on the weekends. Practices will be at a school on the Broadneck Peninsula. Games will be at a school in the County, dictated by Anne Arundel County Rec and Parks.
- Community Basketball - this is our in house rec program. Teams will be built based first on availability for practice nights. Practice nights are selected by the coach from available time slots. We will then buddy requests when possible. Evaluations will be held the week of 21 October with Teams established by 1 November. Evaluations for Community basketball are not mandatory however they are highly encouraged. Those who attend Community evaluations will be given priority over those who do not when it comes to fulfilling buddy requests. Teams will practice once a week with games on Saturdays. All games and practices will be on the Broadneck Peninsula.
- Availability - players are added to teams that practice on a night without conflict. When registering, please note any day you CANNOT practice. If you request a buddy and they MUST practice on a Tuesday and your child CANNOT practice Tuesday, they will not be on the same team.
- Coach requests - no longer a guaranteed option. Our coaches will be given a guaranteed pick of one player (in addition to their child if they have one playing) for their team. If you would like that extra player on your child's roster, consider volunteering to be a head coach. During the Team Building process, we will look at accommodating additional requests but cannot guarantee them as we are trying to build evenly balanced Teams.
- Buddy requests - 2 player MAX and must reciprocate. If your child A requests buddies B&C, in order to be considered, B should request A&C, and C should request A&B at registration. Our goal is to balance teams evenly. If 3 players request one another, as long as there is no conflict for practice night, we can make sure that happens. Unfortunately in the past there have been too many requests of a player listing 9 buddies and getting upset when the 1 or 2 we couldn't honor were the "best friends and most important to be together". No matter how experienced or new to basketball a group of 3 friends might be, we can balance skill level between teams.
- COED & Clinic Basketball - this is our clinic style for ages 4-5 and our 4v4 style for ages 6-7. Since play is only on weekends, the conflict question is not as big of an issue. If you CANNOT do morning or afternoon please note in your registration. Since there is no scoring or standings in this age group, balanced rosters are not as big of a necessity. We will honor as many buddy requests as possible for these divisions. There will be no tryout or evaluation for anyone under the age of 8 and in this league, with notification of Team placement coming by mid-November.
- SELECT Basketball - This is a new program that we are offering in conjunction with Broadneck High School, in the Spring and starts in 6th grade. This will be a highly competitive league where we will be playing in the leagues run by Anne Arundel County, Howard County and tournaments with AAU and other travel teams. There will be tryouts held in early to mid March. Please contact Bob Gregory.
The age bracket your child will play in is based on their age as of September 1st! Anne Arundel County allows you to play up into County basketball as long as your son or daughter is 8 years old by the start of the first game, which is typically around 12/1, but no telling when that'll be this year. If your child is 7 years old and you are interested in him or her trying out for an 8U county team, please sign up for the 6-7 league and send an email to [email protected] and we'll make sure that they get to try out for the 8U team.
| Birthdate Range | Grade in School | Community Division | County Division |
| 9/1/2019 | 8/31/2020 | PK | 4 | N/A |
| 9/1/2018 | 8/31/2019 | K | 5 | N/A |
| 9/1/2017 | 8/31/2018 | 1 | 6-7 | N/A |
| 9/1/2016 | 8/31/2017 | 2 | 6-7 | N/A |
| 9/1/2015 | 8/31/2016 | 3 | 8-9 | 8U |
| 9/1/2014 | 8/31/2015 | 4 | 8-9 | 9U |
| 9/1/2013 | 8/31/2014 | 5 | 10-11 | 10U |
| 9/1/2012 | 8/31/2013 | 6 | 10-11 | 11U |
| 9/1/2011 | 8/31/2012 | 7 | 12-13 | 12U |
| 9/1/2010 | 8/31/2011 | 8 | 12-13 | 13U |
| 9/1/2009 | 8/31/2010 | 9 | N/A | 15U |
| 9/1/2008 | 8/31/2009 | 10 | N/A | 15U |
| 9/1/2007 | 8/31/2008 | 11 | N/A | 17U |
| 9/1/2006 | 8/31/2007 | 12 | N/A | 17U |
Have Questions? Review our FAQ page or contact us:
Basketball Commissioner - TJ Davis
Community League Director - Jerry Kent
County League and Select Director - Bob Gregory
There will be a $20 fee for all refunded registrations. There will be no refunds once your child is placed on a team.