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2008 Travel Teams	2008 Travel Team Results
Alumnae Players/Coaches	Connecticut Gym Directions (.pdf)
Announcements	2007 Season Review
Articles of Interest	2007 Top 100 Clinic
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What is Connecticut Starter Basketball?

Article from the Record Journal on our beginnings.
 

1. AAU TRAVEL TEAM TRYOUTS are a great way for all players from throughout the state to learn and compete with other players their own age in a structured format.

2. SELECT TRAVEL TEAMS COMPETING IN REGIONAL AND NATIONAL AAU TOURNAMENTS (April-July) provide the elite player an opportunity to practice and play with and against the best AAU players in the East and throughout the country. This link contains the 2008 team schedules and our team rosters! Also, directions to Connecticut gyms (.pdf format)!!!
   2008 RESULTS!!! This link has the weekly results from our 2008 Weekly and National Tournaments!!

3. THE BASKETBALL FACTORY SUMMER CAMPS (July-August) are a great way to work on individual skills in a total basketball environment. Hundreds joined us for the 2007 camps. Be sure to sign up for camp in 2008. (Boys: July 20-24, Offensive Skills: July 25-26, Hopla: July 27-28, Girls: July 28-August 1).
   

4. THE TOP 100 (September) gives players from throughout New England the chance to showcase their talents in front of Division II and III coaches from across the region.
   See the 2007 Top 100 All-Tournament Team and Colleges that attended.

5. STARTERS FALL BASKETBALL LEAGUES (September - November) is the best place to get ready for the upcoming school season.
   

6. THE DAVE HOPLA SHOOTING CAMP is offered in the summer of each year to improve the shooting skills of all participants. Visit Dave's site at www.davehopla.com

• Our coaches are among the best in Connecticut.
• Last year our travel teams played a total of nearly 400 games, including Orlando, Washington DC, Cincinnati, and Montreal!
• We have won 82 State AAU Titles in our 20-Year existence through 2007.
• Many of our players have been named to Street & Smith magazine's All-America teams.
• Starters alumnae include Jennifer Rizzotti, coach of the University of Hartford Hawks and Nykesha Sales of the WNBA.
• Nearly 50 Starter alumnae are currently playing NCAA basketball at colleges across the United States.
• 41 colleges were represented at our 2007 Top 100 Clinic.
• Almost 25 former Starters players or coaches will be coaching college basketball and numerous others will be coaching at high schools.
• Over 1,000 girls took part in Camps, Shooting Clinics, Top 100 Clinic, Fall League, or our Travel Teams last year.

Regardless of which phases are best for you, CONNECTICUT STARTERS provides a full compliment of basketball services from March-November. If basketball is your game.......think STARTERS!

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