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Combined Teams

Combined Teams

The Osseo Maple Grove Basketball Association, OMGBA, strives to provide the best basketball experience for youth in the Osseo and Maple Grove high school attendance areas and we thank you for being part of our success.

As part of this process, OMGBA widely invited via email and published on its website an open invitation for public comment about potential changes to the OMGBA Traveling program. The meeting was the most widely attended meeting in recent OMGBA history. The meeting was well attended by a cross-section of Osseo and Maple Grove parents. Everyone was given an opportunity to comment.

OMGBA voted to "Combine" its traveling basketball program for all ages / genders going forward with one exception. It voted to “grandfather in” the current 7th grade boys and girls levels under the current traveling team formation guidelines for their 8th grade traveling season.

What does "Combine" mean?

This change would result in combined Traveling teams regardless of high school designation. It would eliminate “Osseo” teams and “Maple Grove” teams and create all “Combined” teams (similar to the way youth baseball, hockey and soccer operate). The teams would all carry the same combined name, which is yet to be determined. There would be one combined tryout for boys and girls respectively. Player placement on a team would be determined by tryout results.

OMGBA has long had Combined teams in order to allow more players play traveling, where some Maple Grove players wore Osseo uniforms and some Osseo players wore Maple Grove uniforms, sometimes switching from year to year. OMGBA had always tried to have "Pure" Maple Grove or "Pure" Osseo teams, but with some declining numbers, this became more and more challenging and we weren't serving the youth of our community as well as we thought we could - thus the change for the 2010-2011 season.

The required bylaw changes are to be drafted and likely passed at the March 2010 meeting.

It is important to note that these potential changes only affect our 5-8th grade Traveling program and none of our 1st-12th grade house programs.

The Combined Team FAQ will remain up and active for approximately one year.

We encourage you to ask questions and provide feedback on these changes to our Traveling program. Your support is essential to the continued success of the Osseo Maple Grove Basketball Association.

 
Thank you.
OMGBA Board of Directors