Osseo Maple Grove Basketball Association

See the Registration Page for dates or go directly to the Online Registration site to register.

September 4, 2008, 7:00pm - 8:00pm, Maple Grove Jr High. OMGBA is looking for experienced referees. You can contact the referee coordinator by phone at 763-420-5660 or via email: mn_drags@comcast.net.

September 21, 2008 7:30pm-8:30pm: Coach Orientation - Maple Grove Jr. High Auditorium. Parents new to the program or wanting more information are welcome to attend.

September 27, 2008: Season starts and run to November 15, 2008 (no games on October 18, 2008 (MEA)).

October 4, 2008: Pictures in Rush Creek Elementary Cafeteria.

Note: Please complete and return your end-of season evaluations. Thank You!

January 11, 2009: Coach Orientation - 9:00am - 9:45am, Maple Grove Jr High.

No parent meeting.

January 24, 2009: Season starts and run to March 14, 2009 (excludes February 14, 2009 (President's Day).

January 31, 2009: Pictures in Rush Creek Elementary Cafeteria.

Note: Please complete and return your end-of season evaluations. Thank You!

September 14, 2008: Coach Orientation 7:00pm-8:30pm at MGJH.

September 16, 2008: Practices begin.

September 27, 2008: Games begin, and run through December 6, 2008 (no games October 18, 2008 (MEA) and November 29, 2008 (Thanksgiving)).

October 4, 2008: Pictures Time Per Coach, at MGJH.

December 9, 2008 to December 13, 2008: End of season tournament games.

January 17, 2009 - Scholastic Achievement requests to be postmarked.

Note: Please complete and return your end-of-season evaluation. Thank you!

Registered players are expected to participate in tryouts.

Those interested in trying out for Traveling Basketball (boys and girls, 5th grade through 8th grade), see Traveling League below.

Girls

• December 6, 2008: 5th & 6th Grade Combined Tryouts/Drafts.

• Last name starting with M-Z 9:00am - 11:30am at MGJH Court DE.

• Last name starting with A-L 12:00pm - 2:30pm at MGJH Court DE.

Boys

• December 6, 2008: Tryouts/Drafts.

• 5th Grade, Last name starting with M-Z 8:30am - 10:00am at MGJH Court AB.

• 5th Grade, Last name starting with A-L 10:30am - 12:00pm at MGJH Court AB.

• 6th Grade, Last name starting with K-Z 1:00pm - 2:30pm at MGJH Court AB.

• 6th Grade, Last name starting with A-J 3:00pm - 4:30pm at MGJH Court AB.

December 4, 2008: Coach Orientation 7:00pm - 8:00pm at MGJH.

December 8, 2008: Practices begin.

January 10, 2009: Games begin and run through March 14, 2009 (no games February 14, 2009 (President's Day)).

January 10, 2009: Pictures: Time per coach at MGJH.

January 17, 2009: Scholastic Achievement requests to be postmarked.

March 17, 2009 - March 21, 2009: Tournament games.

Notes: Please complete and return your end-of-season evaluation. Thank you!

Registered players are expected to participate in tryouts.

Those interested in trying out for Traveling Basketball (boys and girls, 5th grade through 8th grade), see Traveling League below.

Tryouts/Drafts...

• 7th Grade Girls October 25, 2008 8:00am - 9:45am at OJH.

• 8th Grade Girls October 25, 2008 10:15am - 12:00pm at OJH.

• 8th Grade Boys October 25, 2008 12:30pm - 2:15pm at OJH.

• 7th Grade Boys October 25, 2008 2:45pm - 4:30pm at OJH.

November 5, 2008: Coach Orientation 7:00pm - 8:00pm at Maple Grove Junior High.

November 10, 2008: Practices begin.

December 6, 2008: Games begin (no games December 20, 2008 and December 27, 2008 (Winter Break)).

December 6, 2008: Pictures: Time per coach at Maple Grove Junior high.

December 12-14, 2008: Tentative dates for Brooklyn Park Holiday Tournament (optional).

January 17, 2009: Scholastic Achievement requests to be postmarked.

February 13-15, 2009: OMGBA Junior High House Invitational Tournament.

March 13-March 15, 2009: OMGBA End of Season Tournament.

Notes: Please complete and return your end-of-season evaluation. Thank you!

Registered players are expected to participate in tryouts.

Tryouts/Drafts...

• 9th-12th Grade Girls December 7, 2008 12:00pm - 1:00pm at MGJH (Coaches arrive 11:30am).

• 11th-12th Grade Boys December 7, 2008 1:15pm - 2:30pm at MGJH (Coaches arrive 12:45pm).

• 9th-10th Grade Boys December 7, 2008 2:45pm - 4:45pm at MGJH (Coaches arrive 2:15pm).

December 14, 2008: Practices begin.

January 11, 2009: Games begin.

February 20-22, 2009: Tentative date for Senior High Tournament.

March 27-29 , 2009: OMGBA End of Season Tournament.

Thank you!

OMGBA has a Traveling League for 5th through 8th Grade. Traveling teams tend to practice more, play more games (weekend tournaments), and play a higher level of competition. If your son or daughter is interested in traveling, register them for the proper House League and when the online registration asks about Traveling, answer "yes" - you will be trying out for Traveling. Those selected will have to pay an additional fee to cover the tournament entry fees. For more information, see the above information for the various house leagues and below for the various traveling leagues and tryout dates. If your child does not make a traveling team, they will already be signed up for the House League, which is a very strong program. OMGBA only has places for about 300 players in traveling but has about 1700 players in our House Program.

Osseo and Maple Grove 5th Grade Girls:

• September 23, 2008, 6:30-9:30pm at Osseo Junior High (OJH).

• 2nd Tryout: September 25, 2008, 6:30-9:00pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms D&E.

Osseo and Maple Grove 6th Grade Girls:

• September 23, 2008 7:00-10:00pm, at Maple Grove Senior High School (MGSH) gyms 1-3 .

• 2nd Tryout: September 25, 2008, 6:30-9:00pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms A-C.

Osseo and Maple Grove 7th Grade Girls:

• September 22, 2008, 6:30-9:30pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms A-C.

• 2nd Tryout: September 24, 2008, 6:30-9:00pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms A-C.

Osseo and Maple Grove 8th Grade Girls:

• September 22, 2008, 6:30-9:30pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms D&E.

• 2nd Tryout: September 24, 2008, 6:30-9:00pm at Osseo Junior High (OJH).

September 17, 2008: Coach Orientation 7:00pm - 9:00pm at MG Community Center.

September 29, 2008: Girls traveling basketball practices begin.

November 15, 2008: Girls Pictures: Time per coach at MGJH.

November 14-16, 2008: OMGBA Girls Traveling Tournament.

January 17, 2009: Scholastic Achievement requests to be postmarked.

March/April 2009: End of season program and coach evaluation mailed to each traveling player's home. Even though your name is on the form, that is only to keep people from "stuffing the ballot box". Your surveys go to a third party company who enters in all data and comments, changing the names to "{COACH}" and "{CHILD}", etc. to protect the identity of parents and children, hopefully so you'll be more open and honest so that we may get a better evaluation of our coaches and program overall. Please complete and return. Thank you!

Osseo 5th Grade Boys:

• September 27, 2008, 8:00-11:30am at Osseo Junior High (OJH).

• 2nd Tryout: September 29, 2008, 6:00-8:00pm at Weaver Lake Elementary School.

Osseo 6th Grade Boys:

• September 27, 2008, 12:00-3:30pm at Osseo Junior High (OJH).

• 2nd Tryout: September 29, 2008, 8:00-10:00pm at Weaver Lake Elementary School.

Osseo 7th Grade Boys:

• September 27, 2008, 8:00-11:30am at Zanewood Community Center large gym.

• 2nd Tryout: September 29, 2008, 7:00-8:45pm at Zanewood Community Center large gym.

Osseo 8th Grade Boys:

• September 27, 2008, 12:00-3:30pm at Zanewood Community Center large gym.

• 2nd Tryout: September 30, 2008, 6:30-9:00pm at Osseo Junior High (OJH).

Maple Grove 5th Grade Boys:

• September 27, 2008, 8:00-11:30am at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms D&E.

• 2nd Tryout: September 29, 2008, 6:30-9:00pm at Osseo Junior High (OJH).

Maple Grove 6th Grade Boys:

• September 27, 2008, 12:00-3:30pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms A-C.

• 2nd Tryout: September 29, 2008, 6:30-9:30pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms D&E.

Maple Grove 7th Grade Boys:

• September 27, 2008, 8:00-11:30am at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms A-C.

• 2nd Tryout: September 29, 2008, 6:30-9:30pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms A-C.

Maple Grove 8th Grade Boys:

• September 27, 2008, 12:00-3:30pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms D&E.

• 2nd Tryout: September 30, 2008, 6:30-9:30pm at Maple Grove Junior High (MGJH) gyms D&E.

Additional tryouts for Combined Teams, if needed, will be October 1, 2008 for 7th and 8th grade boys ---- October 2, 2008 for 5th and 6th grade boys.  The October 1 and 2 tryouts will be conducted at Osseo Junior High (OJH).

• 5th Grade Boys: 6:00-8:00pm

• 6th Grade Boys: 8:00-10:00pm

• 7th Grade Boys: 6:00-8:00pm

• 8th Grade Boys: 8:00-10:00pm

September 17, 2008: Coach Orientation 7:00pm - 9:00pm at MG Community Center.

October 6, 2008: Boys traveling basketball practices begin.

November 22, 2008: Boys Pictures: Time per coach at MGJH.

November 21-23, 2008: OMGBA Boys Traveling Tournament.

January 17, 2009: Scholastic Achievement requests to be postmarked.

March/April 2009: End of season program and coach evaluation mailed to each traveling player's home. Even though your name is on the form, that is only to keep people from "stuffing the ballot box". Your surveys go to a third party company who enters in all data and comments, changing the names to "{COACH}" and "{CHILD}", etc. to protect the identity of parents and children, hopefully so you'll be more open and honest so that we may get a better evaluation of our coaches and program overall. Please complete and return. Thank you!

We are in the process of updating the dates for the next season, so when reading any dates, please do your own sanity check on the year!