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Our Program

KING Hoops Basketball Program

Our KING Hoops AAU Basketball program has competitive teams playing on the local, regional, and national level. Each team practices twice a week - with each session focused on both team and player development.

Our 12U and 13U teams play at Local Zero Gravity Tournaments, while our 13U Black and 14U teams play on the Under Armor Future's Circuit. Our 15U, 16U and 17U teams all play at the biggest regional tournaments including Hoop Group, Made Hoops, and Gym Rat, R in order to get our players needed college exposure.

Academic and Life Skills Program

In 2018, with the support of the Heisman Trophy Trust, we created our first academic and life skill focused program. This program is designed to close the education gaps within the NYC educational system by providing academic support as well as a safe space for our student-athletes to connect with peers and mentors.

Since 2018, we have served over 375 student-athletes with a 100% high school graduation rate and 92% of our student-athletes attending college. Our themes this fall with our HS teams will be on college exploration, college recruitment, and our career development cohor while our middle school teams will be focused on growing emotional intelligence.

Career Development Cohort

As our participants continue to grow up through our programs, many are looking for internships and jobs. We have intentionally created a career development pipeline for our order participants to gain work experience through opportunities at our sister organization Kids in the Game and elsewhere in the NYC community.

We have had participants become summer camp counselors/coaches, support our marketing initiative as photography and videography interns, and even intern for the Kids in the Game CEO! One last step in the journey of Growing up KING!

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