The YMCA of Van Wert County announces a new layout for its youth basketball programs for boy and girls in grades 3-6.\u00a0 The instructional league for this age group will now be held prior to the school-age league and registration will begin on October 3.<\/p>\n
Registration fees are as follows $15 for Y family members, $25 for Y youth members and $60 for potential members. Open registration ends October 22, with a $10 late registration fee applying after that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to switch the timing of these two leagues, as we feel this will give these kids an opportunity to go through a more instructional league, prior to the school-age league,\u201d said Y Program Director Mitch Price. \u201cWe have been working closely with local basketball coaches and all feel this is a great change for the betterment of youth basketball within our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Games for this league will be held on Saturdays, starting November 12 through December 17, with a tournament to follow. Referees and coaches are still needed for this league and those interested may contact Price. For those coaching, a mandatory coach\u2019s meeting and draft will be Tuesday, October 25.<\/p>\n
Also included with this league is a free coaches\u2019 clinic on Saturday, November 5.\u00a0 During this clinic, put on by local high school coaches, participants will learn to run a fundamentals-oriented practice.<\/p>\n
The younger age divisions (ages 4-K and grades 1-2) will be held in January 2012, along with the school-age league.<\/p>\n
More information can be found about this and any other programs offered at the Van Wert YMCA by calling emailing Price at mitch@vwymca.org<\/a>, calling the Y at 419.238.0443 or online at www.vwymca.org<\/a>.\u00a0 The YMCA of Van Wert County is partially funded by the United Way of Van Wert County and The Van Wert County Foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The YMCA of Van Wert County announces a new layout for its youth basketball programs for boy and girls in grades 3-6.\u00a0 The instructional league for this age group will now be held prior to the school-age league and registration will begin on October 3. Registration fees are as follows $15 for Y family members, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 17:42:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}