Programs
Current Programs
- iHoops National Skills Challenge
- GOAL: Focus on the development of the skills needed to excel in the sport and encourage participation in the sport.
- DETAIL: Through programs like the National Skills Challenge, iHoops desires to encourage participation in the sport. iHoops can be an important resource tool in encouraging participation as well by celebrating the playing of the game and promoting the positive health and life benefits associated with such participation. Learning the skills needed to excel in the sport is an essential part of developing as a player and events like the National Skills Challenge provide a platform to reinforce the importance of skill development. iHoops.com will also have an abundance of resources related to skill development.
- Right Guard Total Defense Challenge
- GOAL: Right Guard and iHoops are looking for the Best Defensive Stopper!
- DETAIL: Through the travel basketball season and the scholastic high school season, iHoops will identify fifty of the top defensive players in the nation. Thirty players will be selected to receive a trip to New Orleans to see Chris Paul and the Hornets play and to participate in the Right Guard Total Defense Challenge where they will compete to be the Right Guard National Total Defense Player.
- Elite Player Program: iHoops First Team
- GOAL: Enhance basketball development for pre-collegiate student-athletes and provide information on the value of education, collegiate recruiting process and eligibility rules, values of the game, and the importance of good citizenship / life skills.
- DETAIL: The iHoops First Team mentoring program will provide resource materials and direct, personal contact with many of the top high school players in the country and their parents. This program, through iHoops.com, will provide a wealth of information including content regarding recruiting and information provided by the NCAA Eligibility Center, material regarding the importance of preparing for life after basketball, as well as tips for dealing with agents and their representatives, college recruiters and others. The site will offer several opportunities for quality video regarding the values and history of the game. iHoops will provide video and printed materials periodically in association with camps, clinics and tournaments that relate to all of these topics.
Upcoming Programs
- Coach Education – Anticipated in Fall 2010
- GOAL: Better prepared coaches to improve their ability to coach the game.
- DETAIL: iHoops, in conjunction with the National Federation of State High School Associations, will build a comprehensive course of coaching education that will be available through iHoops.com. The course will include information on the philosophy of coaching, the fundamentals of teaching basketball and a unit on health and safety including basic first aid requirements.
- Officiating Development and Education -- Anticipated in Spring 2011
- GOAL: An improved system for training and advancing officials.
- DETAIL: iHoops will feature instructional materials as well as animated and video features for people interested in becoming basketball officials or advancing their officiating knowledge and skill. In addition, a program of officiating education will be offered by the spring of 2011. This online course will provide instruction and a rules test. Working through an officiating advisory panel, iHoops also plans to identify a more clearly defined pathway for youth officials to understand what is required to advance to higher levels of competition including NCAA Division I and the NBA.
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