Overview VBS 2024 Volunteers BG Sports

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2024 Schedule
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FAQs

Here are some answers to common questions.

Basketball costs $45 for the season

Cheerleading costs $60

Pre-K - 6th grade boys & girls

1st-6th Grade Basketball will have one 1hr practice on either Monday, Thursday,  or Friday evening each week beginning on December 2nd. Coaches will reach out about practice times after registration closes and teams are assembled (no later than November 24th).

Pre-K & Kindergarten will not have weeknight practices. These kids will practice 30mins before their games and then play for 30 min.

All Cheerleaders will practice once a week. The cheer coaches will reach out after registration closes to schedule practice.

Each age group has it's own league with goals and expectations for the year. They are broken down as follows:

  • Instructional- (Pre K-Kindergarten)
    • Children will begin to learn to dribble and shoot, play defense, and be a good sport and teammate.
    • Games will be played on half-court with 6ft goals.
  • 1st-2nd Grade
    • Players continue learning game rules (walk, double dribble, fouls).
    • Referees will begin to call egregious infractions (carrying ball like a football, hard fouls, etc).
    • Games played on half-court with 8ft goals.
  • 3rd-4th Grade
    • Players are expected to follow most all rules of the game.
    • Walking, double dribbling, fouls are all called.
    • Players begin to learn set offensive plays.
    • Games are played on half-court with 9ft goals.
  • 5th-6th Grade
    • Standard basketball rules are followed. Zone defense is taught and encouraged.
    • Games are played on full court with 10ft goals.

BG Sports has an 8 game season. Games are on Saturday mornings from January 4th-February 23rd. 

Cheerleaders will practice once a week and rotate cheering at 1 game each Saturday. They will learn various cheers and chants and either a dance or stunt to perform at our award ceremony.

You will need to fill out THIS FORM  and pay your registration fees by November 8th to register 

If you have any questions,  reach out to BG Kids director, Nicole Knych at nicole@beechgrove.org for more information.