Mission Statement
Our Mission is to provide a platform to assist student athletes the opportunity to showcase their basketball talents for athletic establishments to see. The goal is to hopefully procure scholarships to gain an education while using basketball as a vehicle to do so.
Our Approach
At iLuvBBall our vision is to feature the players on our site and give them a platform to promote themselves. We do so by hosting our own tournaments and showcase events where we create player profiles for coaches and scouts to see.
We employ student athletes as Jr. News Correspondences and give them real life in-game experience and the opportunity for their work to be published on a website that is viewed by thousands of basketball enthusiasts.
Meet The Founder
Rodini AlmonacyFounder of iLuvBBall.com |
Realizing how difficult it was to procure a scholarship for his son, the founder of iLuvBBall.com Rodini Almonacy, sought to educate players & parents on how to get to “their basketball next level” by providing the blueprint to navigate the treacherous roads of AAU/travel basketball and the college recruitment process. That is why he created this platform for players to promote themselves. Helping the parents and student athletes overcome one of their biggest hurdles… getting the exposure needed to “Be Seen” by scouts and college coaches giving them the opportunity to play ball at the next level and use basketball as a vehicle to get an education and forge friendships and business contacts that will stay with them for a lifetime.
Meet the Team
We take pride in our staff and the way our members treat our clients, followers, & members. We are in the customer service business and you know what they say “the customers are always right“. Everyone that is involved with iLuvBBall has a personal attachment to basketball and making your basketball involvement with us a pleasurable and memorable experience. From the website experience to our events.
Glenn PetraitusDirector of Media/Video Production |
Glenn is a 30 year veteran of the television sports broadcasting industry. His biggest asset in his illustrious career is his versatility, having done just about everything involving the broadcasting of sports television. He has been a sports anchor and reporter locally at MSG Networks, News 12 Long Island and WPIX-TV 11.
Glenn currently produces live sporting and entertainment events and shows. Most recently, Glenn produced for the Summer and Winter Olympic Games for NBC. Throughout his career Glenn has videotaped and edited, produced, written, anchored and reported on just about every professional and amateur sport.
Glenn has achieved the highest honor in his field having won multiple New York Emmy Awards.
He has also been a Professor of Journalism and New Media at Hofstra University and Connecticut School of Broadcasting.
One of Glenn’s biggest passions is mentoring the next generation of television producers, reporters, videographers and editors.
Glenn has been with iluvbball.com since 2014.
Seth BermanPhotogrpaher |
Seth Berman of RapidShutterPhotography.com is the official photography partner for iLuvBBall.com. We had the pleasure of meeting Seth in the year of 2013. He has a keen eye for sports photography and is committed to our mission for helping student-athletes in achieving the goal of utilizing basketball as a vehicle to achieve a college education.
Seth has been interested in photography since his school days. After school he started working in photo labs while continuing his hobby of photography. It wasn’t until 2013 that Seth started his business of Rapid Shutter Photography with an emphasis on High School Sports.
Seeing the student athletes grow from what they learn on the courts and fields during their years in High School is fun and rewarding.