Alameda Youth Basketball (AYB)

Alameda Youth Basketball, Inc. (“AYB”), a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, is going strong after 27 years of providing both recreational and competitive basketball to boys and girls, grades three through eight.  AYB’s Mission is to organize and operate a basketball league for elementary and middle school boys and girls to foster the spirit of good sportsmanship, competition, teamwork, leadership, physical fitness and an understanding of the game of basketball.  The league is nondiscriminatory and shall not deny for financial reasons the right of any otherwise eligible person to participate.

On-Line registration begins in August 2023.  Register on-line at www.sportability.com.  Type AYB in the “Find Your League" box, click on your grade, follow the simple instructions and complete all of the forms.  Season fees are $175.  In addition, instead of registering on-line, you can register in-person on September 20 or 22 at 7:00 pm at the Alameda Boys & Girls Club.  

After you register, you will receive notice of two player evaluations for the player’s grade.  You only need to attend one of the sessions.  Each grade’s coaches will attend these evaluations.  The purpose of the evaluations is to allow the coaches to draft teams of roughly equal parity by the end of October.  The evaluations are not tryouts.  Every registered player will be placed onto a team unless the Board decides to limit the size of the League, in which case players may be placed onto a waiting list. 

Practices start November 1.  Each team will have one one-hour practice during the week.  Games start December 3 and 4.  The practice schedule will be distributed by the end of October and the game schedule will be distributed by mid-November.  There are no practices or games during the winter holidays.  In order to maximize the number of games each team plays during the season, we will have games on Martin Luther King weekend and President’s Day Weekend.  

The League estimates that the regular season will end the weekend of February 18 & 19 and that the playoffs will begin the following weekend, February 25 & 26.   The semi finals and championships will be the weekend of March 4 & 5.

To keep our player fees low we depend on sponsors to supplement the registration 

fees. The sponsor fees are $385.  Sponsors are acknowledged and publicly thanked each season on a banner at the gyms where the games are played and in an advertisement in The Alameda Sun. If you want to sponsor your player’s team, or if you have any questions or comments, please contact Randy Marmor at 510-418-7451 or RANDY4SPORTS@HOTMAIL.COM.