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Sabres Announce 2024 Basketball Tryouts

South Wake Sabres 2024-2025 Basketball Season

The South Wake Sabres Basketball tryouts for new and returning players are scheduled to be held on Friday, September 6th and Saturday, September 7th, 2024 at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church.  The address is 10005 Lake Wheeler Road, Fuquay-Varina, NC  27526.  Invite your homeschool friends with basketball experience!

The South Wake Sabres is a highly competitive basketball program for homeschooled student-athletes who are in middle school and high school. We seek to provide our players with basketball training as well as guidance related to good character development, teamwork, and integrity in an environment centered on exemplifying behaviors and teachings of Christ as presented in the Bible.

Players should attend the tryouts by the following age brackets:
Age eligibility by team is determined as of August 1, 2024. A player must be the age listed or under after the team name. (Player selection will be based on age and skill level.)
Middle School Girls – 14U (Age bracket is 14 or under)
Middle School Boys – 13U (Age bracket is 13 or under)
Junior Varsity – 16U (Age bracket is 16 or under)
Varsity – 18U (Age bracket is 18 or under)

MANDATORY PARENT MEETING (at least one parent MUST attend one):

Monday, August 19, 2024 at 7:00pm at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 at 7:00pm – virtual meeting on Zoom

TRYOUT DATES/TIMES:

Friday, September 6

3:00 to 4:30pm

JV Boys
Coaches – Jackie Fingleton and John Mercer

4:30 to 6:00pm Varsity Boys
Coach – Ryan Webb
6:00 to 8:00pm Middle School Boys 
Coach –  Rob Hoover

Saturday, September 7

8:30 to 10:00am Middle School Girls
Coach – Liv Hart
10:00 to 11:30am Varsity Girls
Coaches – Skeet Woolard, Bobby Jurgens, Tanya Bange, and Liv Hart

If your son or daughter plans to tryout, you MUST register online.  NOTE: this is a separate registration from the summer open gym.   Please arrive approximately 15 minutes prior to the tryout time in order to check-in at the registration table.

Required items to be completed before tryouts:

  • Player online registration is required by going to https://registration.teamsnap.com/form/9259 to complete the online player registration process prior to arriving at tryouts.  NOTE: we have changed our registration process to use TeamSnap this year so it will work slightly differently.
  • Birth certificate for new players that have not been on a roster before. You will have an opportunity during registration to upload a picture of the birth certificate.  If you do not want to do that, please bring a copy of the birth certificate to tryouts to show at the registration table.
  • Mandatory Parent Meeting- must be attended by at least one parent (see scheduled times above on this tryout announcement sheet) There will be a sign in sheet.

After the end of the regular season, players are expected to participate in the very exciting East Coast Homeschool Nationals Tournament in Gatlinburg, Tennessee from March 3 to 7, 2025. In addition, the JV Boys, Varsity Girls, and Varsity Boys teams will be participating in an early season tournament in Charleston, SC on November 15-16, 2024.

The Middle School Boys Developmental (MSB-Dev) team will play a shortened schedule of 10-12 games, will be non-conference for NCHEAC, and will NOT participate in any postseason tournaments, including the NCHEAC tournaments and East Coast Homeschool Nationals tournament.

We look forward to seeing you soon. GO SABRES!!

In Christ,

Shawn Williams, Athletic Director, South Wake Sabres
shawn.williams@southwakesabres.org

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