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A's Team Up With Canarias Basketball Academy!
The Birmingham A’s have teamed up with the Canarias Basketball Academy (CBA) to host a high performance training camp from the 26th -30th August in Birmingham. The camp hosted by the A’s will be an intensive 3 days of quality basketball coaching in replication of the Canarias Basketball Academy’s prestigious residential programme, which has produced the highest number of NCAA division 1 players in Europe to date by any academy.
The NCAA is the elite college basketball league in America and is the traditional route to enter the NBA draft. Canarias Basketball Academy has sent 22 CBA players to NCAA division 1 teams in the states over the last 2 years. The CBA is unmatched in professional high quality coaching at all age ranges and areas of player development drawing coaches from all the best professional leagues across Europe and the Americas.
The Canarias Basketball Academy has 15 full -time staff including 9 coaches from around Europe and South America; a physiotherapist as well as a strength and conditioning coach. Previous academy studuents include Joel Freeland who was the 29th Pick in the NBA draft with Portland Trailblazers who is now playing in the Premiere Spanish League for Malaga. This year's draft saw Ryan Richards another former student picked at 49th place in the NBA draft by San Antonio Spurs. On the US College scene Ashley Hamilton ( Great Britain U23 ) recruited to Loyola Marymount University directly from the CBA is doing extremely well and is set for a bright future.
Typically for someone over 18 years old to attend Canarias Basketball Academy full board for one year would cost 13,000 Euros. It would be 15,500 Euros for someone 16 - 18, Birmingham A’s through our partnership will be able to recruit and send local Birmingham talent to the Canarias Basketball Academy through sponsorship by the club. In addition to that the A's will be taking a Birmingham representative squad out to the CBA at the October half term break.
CBA provides expert training in the following areas:
· Off court basketball development
· Individual & position specific skills training
· Individual / team strategy building
· Basketball specific physical conditioning
· Video/Game analysis
We at Birmingham A’s are offering you the chance to take part in a programme developed and delivered by the Canarias Basketball Academy in partnership with Birmingham A’s at their home court. For more information please click on the link in the sidebar.
