We will be offering two practices a week starting the first week of November with intra-squad scrimmages on the weekends starting in mid-November. We are in the process of finalizing those gym locations and working on figuring out practice times and scrimmage locations for all. We hope to have those practice and scrimmage locations out to all as soon as possible. At this time, we are limiting our exposure and will not be playing other communities. After looking at the IHSA guidelines and talking with GBS, we feel this is the best plan right now. If things change, we will look to schedule games in January and February with other communities. Since we are playing scrimmages to start this year, we will focus a ton on skill work to help your child improve their game!

We will be putting 14-16 kids on a team so we can have those scrimmages even if someone is unable to attend. The coaches will split each team into 2 teams and play a best 2 out of 3 series. Once that is finished, we will mix up teams again and start another series.

As for the health and safety guidelines, we have some very important ones to follow this year:
1) ALL kids and coaches must wear a mask during practices and scrimmages at this time (we recommend looking into the under armor or adidas masks; we will make sure everyone will get necessary breaks throughout)
2) ALL kids will have their temperatures taken prior to entering the gym
3) IF your child has any COVID symptoms including fever or cough, we ask that you notify myself and your coach and keep them home from all activities until they produce a negative test before returning
4) IF your child or family has been exposed to someone who has COVID, we ask that you notify myself and your coach immediately and keep your child out of all activities until you produce a negative test
5) IF anyone on a team including the coach tests positive for COVID, we will shut that team down for 14 days and will not resume until all have produced a negative test
6) WHEN arriving for your practice or gym time, we ask that you remain in your car until a coach has signaled you're allowed to enter the gym (This is done so we can get the other team out ahead of you and disinfect any common areas)
7) WE ask that all kids bring their own basketball, water bottle and hand sanitizer to practices and scrimmages
8) ALL coaches will have hand sanitizer and disinfectant spray to clean areas in between practices and games. All kids must use hand sanitizer before exiting the gym.

We understand all these guidelines can be quite daunting but we truly feel this is the best way to keep everyone safe and playing throughout the Winter.

We simply ask at this time if you could reply back to myself and Danny Tuchman if your child and family would be interested in playing Jr. Titans again this season under this new structure and health guidelines. If you choose not to play due to the new structure, guidelines or COVID concerns, we completely understand. We realize everyone has to make their own decisions about whether they want to play. We simply wanted to offer those that played last year the first opportunity to return this year since we will not be able to offer as many teams as we've in past seasons.

IMPORTANT: Please reply back as soon as you can with your child's name, grade level and if they will be returning to play this season. Once we get an idea of the numbers at each level, we will discuss if tryouts are needed. We will have tryouts at 3rd grade boys and 5th grade girls levels since those are new incoming grades. All details for potential tryouts will come in a separate email.