Welcome to the official source of information with the Ringgold Youth Basketball Program. This program is not successful without the ownership and full support of participating families from every Ringgold School District community. Mission statement: to grow participation, develop highly skilled competitive players, instill in your children a positive attitude, good sportsmanship, sound basketball fundamentals, confidence and a love of the game over time with boys and girls within the Ringgold School District communities for the purpose of developing Ringgold youth basketball players to feed the Ringgold school teams with competitive teams at the middle school and high school levels. The Ringgold youth basketball program consists of 4 parts. (1) The main primary youth basketball regular season each Winter for boys and girls in grades 3 to 8 with team practices and games. (2) A Little Ballers instructional season each Winter for boys and girls in grades K to 2 where the players will learn basketball basics and the foundational skills needed to be an effective player over time. (3) Promoting additional playing opportunities including AAU programs, and other available camps and clinics in the area throughout the calendar year. (4) If enough interest is expressed and participation numbers allow, then Ringgold youth basketball will hold Tryouts prior to the regular youth basketball recreational season for more competitive Travel level teams to play in an outside league for boys and girls in grades 3 to 8. NEED TO KNOW
Basketball is a team sport, not individual. A team is only as strong as its weakest link. A quality, competitive school basketball team does not happen with 1 or 2 naturally talented players. It is grown over time from a strong youth basketball program with the foundational development of as many other supporting players as possible. A good basketball player does not happen over the course of a only few weeks/months on court each year. Development takes time, commitment, effort, and attitude before, during, and after each regular youth basketball season. All boys and girls will grow as basketball players only with as much time on the the court they put in beyond just the youth basketball regular season itself.
