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Every girl who makes a Comets team is required to submit a fee of $425.00
payable to COMETS AAU. This cost broken
down as follows: $350.00 team fee and
$75.00 uniform cost. The uniform
consists of game shorts, home and away micro mesh jersey, and shooting
shirt.
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Every player is expected to raise a minimum of $300.00 to $500.00 to cover the costs to play
for the season. This fee can be raised
by selling ads or paid directly out of pocket.
Our tournament will be held June, all ads will be due by end of April,
2008. If an ad is received after this
date, the money will be accepted but the ad will NOT make it to the ad book due
to the printers deadline. All balances
will be due by 1st week of May, otherwise player will not able to
participate in Regionals and subsequent tournaments. Coaches will distribute this paperwork.
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Playing Time – It is our intention as an organization to compete in each
game we play, utilizing all team members.
With that being said, it’s important that practice sessions be
considered as important as game day. Our
coaches do a lot of teaching in our practice sessions. The weekend tournaments
are the girls time to show that they are learning and improving. The girls WILL improve in team concepts and
in individual skills. Please be
supportive of their efforts. The Comets
philosophy is each girl plays in every game.
There are exceptions: they are the REGIONAL/SUPER REGIONAL TOURNAMENTS
and NATIONALS (if we qualify at regionals). At these tournaments, our coaches
play TO WIN !
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Parents Behavior - Our coaches are the cornerstone that make the Comets a
nationally recognized and respected organization in AAU basketball. We feel we are very fortunate to have such
great coaches who VOLUNTEER their time and efforts to the girls. We ask the girls as well as their parents to
respect the coaches and display sportsmanship at all tournaments while representing
OUR organization. The Comets are lucky
enough to have over 100 cumulative years of basketball coaching/administrative
experience from people that volunteer their time. Although we don’t have ALL the answers, we
feel that our approach to the game and the kids is a healthy, fun and extremely
successful one. We ask for all parents
to be supportive of their team, coaches, and all players, including their own
children. Please keep in mind that we
are in a teaching/learning environment and WE ALL, as adults, need to be
positive role models for these young ladies.
Above all, this should be a positive, valuable experience for all of our
players. We welcome all parents to
contribute to that goal!
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An original birth certificate is required by the AAU. A form is available to send to
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Our season runs from Mid February to July. Younger age groups (9’s to 12’s) normally
finish in June. July is for teams that
qualify for the National Championships and college exposure tournaments for
ages 13, 14, 15, and 16’s. Teams that
qualify for Nationals will raise additional funds for the trip.
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Teams practice anywhere from 2 to 3 times a week at various gyms
throughout the area. Parents need to
be flexible in regard to gyms. It is
very difficult to acquire gym time so the location could be anywhere from a 10
minute drive to a 1 hour drive to practice.
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Teams play an average of 6 to 8 tournaments on weekends beginning in
April. The normal tournament schedule
includes 2 games on Saturday and 2 games on Sunday. Each tournament costs a MINIMUM of $450.00 to
$500.00. Schedules will be given out by
the coaches once tournament sign-ups are completed.
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Comets Tournament – scheduled for June 14th and 15th. During the tournament all parents are
expected to contribute their time and efforts for the operation of the
tournament. Please set aside this weekend and plan on lending a ‘helping hand’
for both days. More details will be
available as the tournament approaches.