Lightning AAU Basketball Lightning Basketball is an independent nonprofit that was founded in 1992 to offer young athletes in the New York City metropolitan area an opportunity to work with top coaching staff, compete in the highest-level tournaments, and improve their athletic skills to prepare them...
The NCAA did its part in adding appeal to AAU basketball. A restructuring of the NCAA recruiting calendar put an emphasis on summer basketball over traditional high school ball. That put the attention of summer hoops into the stratosphere. Non-AAU summer tournaments started to pop up all over ...
Currently, AAU basketball tournaments allow kids as young as 7 and as old as 19. Some tournaments are played the whole year, but most of them go from February to July. Participants are often divided by age (7-under, 8-under, and so forth), grade (2nd grade, 3rd grade, and so on)...
Most AAU teams travel throughout the year to tournaments across the country and the top players from those programs are heavily recruited, so the head coaches, as well as the assistants, needs to be able to talk with college coaches, be aware of the different tournaments where their players ...