IT’S GO DAY! LIGHTNING TRYOUTS ALL DAY AT MULTIPLE LOCATIONS!

One of our primary goals is to provide a competitive basketball setting to as many youth players as possible. Lightning Basketball is not solely for the elite player. We hope that by taking in as many promising players as possible from various social economic groups we will be able to turn out a large number of players to all three divisions of college basketball.

That being said we hosting our annual tryouts today all over long Island.

REGISTER USING THE LINKS BELOW

and remember each registrants gets a

FREE Reversible Lightning Jersey!

CLICK HERE FOR THE TIMES FOR EACH AGE GROUP AT EACH LOCATION

LIGHTING TRYOUTS TOMORROW – ANOTHER NASSAU LOCATION FOR TRYOUTS

PRE REGISTRATION ENDS TONIGHT

SUNDAY, JANUARY 20 8PM

REGISTER NOW TO AVOID THE LONG LINES!

 

NORTH SHORE TRYOUTS AT

LI SPORTS HUB –

Jason Helguero 516.584.3076

165 Eileen Way, Syosset, NY 11791

BOYS ONLY

4th, 5th, 6th Grades      9:15am
7th and 8th Grades     10:45am

FIVE LOCATIONS-GREAT OPPORTUNITY (Girls & Boys)

Each registrant gets a FREE reversible Lighting Jersey

THE TIMES FOR EACH AGE GROUP

AT EACH LOCATION ARE AS FOLLOWS;

NASSAU COUNTY TRYOUTS AT ISLAND GARDEN-Tom or Karen 516.292.4956

Island Garden 45 Cherry Valley Avenue, West Hempstead, NY 11552
BOYS
 9U –  9:00am
10U –  9:00am
11U – 10:15am
12U – 11:30am
13U – 12:45pm
14U –  2:00pm
GIRLS
3rd, 4th and 5th Grades   3:30pm
6th, 7th and 8th Grades   4:45pm

SUFFOLK COUNTY TRYOUTS AT NORTHSPORT-Jake Ellis 516.382.8754

NorthSport Athletic Center 469 Fort Salonga Road, Northport, NY 11769
BOYS
 9U / 10U     8:45am –  9:45am
11U / 12U   10:00am – 11:00am
13U / 14U   11:15am – 12:15am
GIRLS
3rd, 4th, 5th Grades   1:45pm – 2:45pm
6th, 7th, 8th Grades   3:00pm – 4:00pm

SUFFOLK COUNTY TRYOUTS AT ST. ANTHONY’S-Tom Rossi 631.745.5707

275 Wolf Hill Road, Melville, NY 11747
BOYS and GIRLS
3rd, 4th, 5th Grades  8:00am –  9:00am
6th and 7th Grades  9:00am – 10:00am
8th Grade              10:00am – 11:00am

SUFFOLK COUNTY TRYOUTS AT ACADEMY OF ST. JOSEPH’S-Rob Maurer 631.992.0517

1725 Brentwood Road Brentwood, NY 11717
BOYS
3rd and 4th Grades 11:30am – 12:45pm
5th and 6th Grades 12:45pm –  2:00pm
7th and 8th Grades  2:00pm –  3:15pm
GIRLS
3rd, 4th and 5th Grades   9:00am – 10:15am
6th, 7th and 8th Grades 10:15am -11:30am

LIGHTING TRYOUT UPDATE! FREE JERESY W/ REGISTRATION!

Lightning Tryouts’ Registration is busy! Please make sure you pre-register your son or daughter for whatever location, listed below, you intend to attend. Reversible jerseys will be issued upon check in.
Each tryout runs approximately 1 hour and fifteen minutes and will be conducted by outstanding coaches in the Lightning organization.
To Download the list of locations and times CLICK HERE.
Good Luck on the 21st.
If you have questions or need assistance please contact me at Dusty22000@aol.com
or 516-351-6642.
Best Regards,
Jim Fox
Executive Director
Lightning Basketball

Suffolk Basketball Players looking for Team to play on?

Suffolk Lighting is under NEW Management!

…and they’re hosting their Tryouts on Monday January 21, 2019 at the All New Northsport Athletic Facility!

 

Boys

9U / 10U : 8:45am-9:45am

11U / 12U : 10am-11am

13U / 14U : 11:15am-12:15am

15U / 16U : 12:30pm-1:30pm

Girls

3rd/4th/5th Grade : 1:45pm-2:45pm

6th/7th/8th Grade : 3pm-4pm


What to expect from the Lightning Organization:

  • Players must exhibit a high level of commitment to Lightning Basketball. Attendance at practices and tournaments is an absolute necessity unless excused by coaching staff.
  • It is our promise that the coach will make every effort to improve the skills of each player on the team. It is further promised that the coach will at all times act as a teacher who is responsible for the safety and well-being of each player on his team. The coach will be a role model both on and off the court.
  • The coach will make every effort to provide as much playing time as possible to every member of the team while realizing that the development of players is more important that winning games.
  • The players will at all times behave in a proper and sportsmanlike manner. Players can be dismissed from the team without warning if they present a serious discipline problem. Lightning enjoys an excellent reputation and no player or parent will be permitted to jeopardize or detract from that positive reputation.
  • Parents must always act in a responsible, respectable and sportsmanlike manner. A Lightning parent is never permitted to speak in a negative way to an opposing team, our own team, coaches or officials. If at any time, a Lightning parent acts in an improper or disrespectful way, the parent and child may be asked to leave the organization.
  • The administration of Lightning Basketball promises to provide a safe, sportsmanlike and fair setting where every player is provided with the opportunity to be successful.
  • Lightning Basketball is a proud member of the AAU and abides by its rules and regulations.

There will be 9 Tryout locations for the Lightning Basketball Program! Serving from Queens/Nassau to Suffolk boys and girls.

Click HERE for a locations near you!

GUESS WHO’S GOING TO THE AAU NATIONALS CHAMPIONSHIP GAME?

Congrats to the AAU Long Island Lightning Wagner team on their great AAU season’s success so far, and even more for their 7-0 record in reaching the 2016 14U AAU Nationals Finals at Disney’s Wide world of Sports! All they do is win, win, win no matter what [DJ Khaled]! Lead by Brentwood’s 3 headed dragon, #14  Zed Key (6’6″), #7 Bryce Harris (6’2″), a man-child that makes his presense felt on both sides of the floor and game changer, and #2 Kenny Lazo (5’8″) their cool as ice point guard and floor general that remains steady through he whole game no matter who’s on the floor. But all this success wouldn’t be achievable without their great supporting cast: The 2nd big man #25 Brandon Pizzingrillo (6’5″), grabs boards and protects the paint. 3 point sniper #8 Brandon Weiss (5’5″). The gritty in your face defensive guard #23 Aaron Jaffee (5’9″). Don’t sleep on the 5’7″ 2 guard #12 Carleton (CJ) Parris who is also a 3point shooter / defensive specialist. 3 guard #32 Kieran Dorney (6’3″) another shooter with length and shooting skills to match. #21 is (5’8″) Bora Soybas crafty slasher, that can get to the basket at will. #15 Jagger Fernandez (5’9″), is another shooting specialist, and last but not least #33 Max Caspi (6’3″), a strong forward that can bang in the paint or shoot the 3, so pick your poison! This wouldn’t be possible if they weren’t lead by the lightning’s most successful head coach, which was inducted into the Lightning Hall of fame, Coach Warren Wagner who is a coach that pays attention to detail and stresses that his team is fundamentally sound and the “team” mentality. Tomorrow will be the biggest game he has ever coached as he takes his 14U team to the National Finals at Disney’s Wide World of Sports Main Court at 10:20 AM. Though not a small task we have faith that Coach Wagner and his boys won’t disappoint.  There you have it. This is our NY Lightning Wagner AAU finalist team representing Strong Island. Good luck gentlemen and hope you bring home the hardware. We’ll be watching and rooting from NY.

 

Lightning Wagner from left to right back row first:

#14 Zed Key,  #33 Max Caspi,  #25 Brandon Pizzingrillo, #32 Kieran Dorney, & #23 Aaron Jaffee

Front row: #21 Bora Soyas, #12 Carleton (CJ) Parris, #7 Bryce Harris, #15 Jagger Fernandez, #8 Brandon Weiss, & #2 Kenny Lazo

The game can be viewed in it’s entirety at 10:20Am eastern time online @ ESPN.com tomorrow.

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