Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 26, 2010
Andrew Davis is a senior this year and he is going to Bradley University in the fall. He was first going to military school but late during this year he realized he was going to be a very important part of the Bradley University team. Andrew is form Oklahoma and he is 19 years old. He has [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 26, 2010
Dwight Powell is a senior at the Pendleton school. He is a basketball player and a part of student council. His birthday is on July the 20th and he is 18 years old. Dwight Powell is attending to Stanford University in California. He is playing college basketball and hopefully later on he can make it [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: April 24, 2010
Jennifer McDade is a basketball star, a Canadian, and one of the nicest girls IMG has seen in a while. Jen has been here at IMG for three years now and has had her fair share of battles along the way. Surgery on her knee cut her season short last season forcing her to return [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 18, 2009
This weekend, on Saturday morning, my basketball team and I went to feed the homeless. I think it was a good experience for me and my teammates. It helped us interact with people who were complete strangers. I had some good conversations with some of the people who were there. They loved to talk and they talked [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: November 3, 2009
Coach Nate is very funny and loves fractions and solving things. He is a observer and looks at every little thing.Off the court he is cool energetic and loves to tell jokes kind of like coach Vince. On the court he is the talkative loud temperamental guy. He is kind of the yeller and the [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: October 23, 2009
Coach Vince is a nice calm relaxing brother. He can be some what soft-spoken and easy-going. He loves to help others and he loves to read as he always has a book in his hand. He is a listener as well as a talker he loves to talk and he can and will talk for [...]
Posted by: hoopin3 on: September 29, 2009
The IMG basketball program, is a really good program even though I only been here about one week. I do believe that we have something special here at this school. We work very hard every day we are in the gym putting in alot hours, nearly five to six hrs everyday, of basketball. We get alot [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 29, 2009
A first year Pendleton student, Alex made the move to come to Florida from little known Pocatello, Idaho. He was selected first team all-state as a junior and was not getting the recruiting looks he wanted. Moving to IMG would give him better exposure playing against higher competition. Alex did well this season, averaging about 15 [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: May 29, 2009
Nnamdi Ekezie, a Baltimore native, was always one of the leaders on the National team. Loved by everyone, Nnamdi was a friend to everybody. A valuble member of the team, Ekezie really developed this season coming off of a knee injury last summer. An athletic shooting/combo guard Ekezie worked hard on his ball handling and decision [...]
Posted by: jnguonly on: April 29, 2009
The boys at IMG ended the season strong, winning the 2009 Hoop Group Jam Fest Open Division Championship. A team consisting of post graduates and one high school player, myself, departed the Academy at 4:30 A.M. Thursday morning for Providence. On Friday, we had the fortune of practicing at prestigious Brown University, one of the most [...]
Posted by: shaaz on: April 24, 2009
Since the season has gotten over for the basketball academy, the coaches are still looking for ways to get unsigned seniors the exposure they need to play at the next level. The plan they devised, evening scrimmages. After practice, a couple times a week, we have a full uniform scrimmage with teams composed of the [...]
Posted by: laurengolino on: April 22, 2009
With only three games left in our season we look to stay perfect. Over spring break we won all three of the tournaments we were in to improve our record to 29-0 on the season. Not only did our record improve but the new national rankings came out and we jumped 7 spots from 17th [...]
Posted by: dirkr on: March 18, 2009
The boys basketball season came to an end this past weekend, following a three day tournament in Erie, Pennsylvania. It was the forth weekend in a row the team has been on the road, so as you can imagine, this end is a bittersweet one. The Basketball Academy took four teams to Erie; two high school teams, and two [...]
Posted by: sallywatson on: March 11, 2009
The Basketball Academy was on the road again, this time to the little known place of Dayton, Tennessee. A town with no more than 300 people, Dayton’s only competition is its steadily growing cow population. The boys of the National and Development teams rolled in late last Tuesday night to compete in a basketball tournament [...]
Posted by: laurengolino on: March 4, 2009
This past weekend the basketball academy headed to Orlando for a 3 day tournament. The first game was a great success as the Panthers trampled the host school 79 to 32, a very good start to the tournament. The next game, as many are, was a game of runs. We came out strong pounding the [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: February 18, 2009
Only a week and a half after getting off the plane from Jackson, the National team at the Basketball Academy hopped right back on the jet headed to the nations capital, Washington D.C. It was a trip both beneficial to improving our basketball skills, but also beneficial in improving our knowledge of the history of [...]
Posted by: shaaz on: February 5, 2009
Coming off three straight wins at home, the boys’ basketball team headed out to Jackson, Mississippi for a three-day tournament. It was not an ordinary tournament; the teams the National squad was competing against were post-graduate teams (some players appearing at least 20 years of age). Well the boys’ team didn’t win any of its [...]
Posted by: charliekennedy on: February 3, 2009
Basketball was created a simple game. The primary objective was to place a ball, without dribbling, into a peach basket. However, like Darwin’s theory of man, basketball has evolved into the most exciting exhibition of athletic ability. Basketball has seen many rule changes, because of the increasing ability of the players. Basketball is a melting [...]
Posted by: jnguonly on: January 29, 2009
Down one at half-time, the boys at the Basketball Academy rallied in the third quarter for a 12 point win against St. Francis to wrap a three game home sweep. All three of the games however, were hard fought and by no means easy wins. The first of the three took place Wednesday night against [...]
Posted by: trubino on: December 9, 2008
It’s here, the season has finally started for the basketball Academy at IMGA. With three games in the first week, not one player went into the Thanksgiving break feeling like they hadn’t got there money’s worth. The first of the two games were located north of Tampa at the “Mitchell Tip-Off.” At this mini tournament, we played [...]
Posted by: jnguonly on: November 5, 2008
With only two weeks until the start of the 08-09 season of the Basketball Academy, the team is more then anxious to get out and play. Practice has made a noticeable turn as well, transitioning from preseason drilling to more team oriented play. Plays are being incorporated into the workouts, as well as weekly scrimmages against the postgraduate team. [...]
Posted by: shaaz on: October 1, 2008
This past weekend some members of the Basketball Academy had the fortune of attending a Nike Team Florida Showcase in Clearwater, Florida. Dwight Powell, Alex Drecksel, Mike Atwater, Joey Moreau, and Abel Varnadore represented the Academy at the event. Keeping in mind that the event was by invitation only, and only 80 players from Florida [...]
Posted by: xeniya on: September 17, 2008
Throughout the past couple of weeks, the Basketball Academy has been receiving national attention on a tremendous scale. To this point in the season, five high level colleges have made their way through the basketball arena here at IMG Academies. The colleges include Stanford, Virginia, Southern California, Georgia Tech, and Penn State, respectively. According to the head [...]
Posted by: pendletonpanther on: August 29, 2008
Great expectations for the 08-09 season of the Basketball Academy here at IMG. With returning players such as junior Dwight Powell and senior Kyryl Katyazhko, both standing at 6’10”, size down low will not be an issue. Powell and Katyazhko are both ranked by scouthoops.com in the top ten in their position in the country. [...]
