AAU Team Atlanta: Welcome
Welcome to the Team Atlanta AAU Website. We are a non profit organization formed to help develop youth basketball players. We are a 14U/ 8th grade team for the 2013 Spring/Summer AAU Season.
We are currently looking for top tier bonafide basketball players to help us win the AAU State Championship and play in showcase tournaments with the goal of getting our players basketball scholarships to college after high school. We teach fundamentals and teamwork. The best players in the world have to play team basketball to win big. We will field two teams this year.
In 2010 (11U) we were ranked #1 in YBOA Ga and Finished 4th in the State Championships. We won 4 out of 8 tournaments including AAU and YBOA.
In 2009 (10U) we were the Georgia State YBOA Division 1 Champions. We also placed 2nd in the Nation in YBOA Division 1. We also made it to the championship game in 7 out of 9 tournaments.
We play in both AAU and YBOA Tournaments.
Email the Coach at aauatlanta@yahoo.com for more information. Thanks
Thursday, December 15
This was a Photo of Coach E and Coach Dennis Felton former University of Georgia Head Coach. I learned from Coach Felton as helped me with practice for the Milton 6th grade Feeder team in 2009-2010. Our team was the only team in our Region to make it to the Final Four in the Cobb County CCJBC League. We lost to Pebblebrook who won the Championship.
At the time of this writing no other Milton Boys Feeder team has ever reached the final four in the CCJBC .
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Wednesday, May 8
After playing well in the AAU state championships the team went 5 -0 on their way to winning another tournament championship the very next week. Go Team Atlanta! We are 8-1 in our last 9 games.
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Friday, May 3
Our boys played great basketball at the AAU State Championships in Milledgeville GA April 26-27 2013. We upset two powerhouse teams in the process. The boys shocked the ELW Future Stars ( Eddie Lee Wilkens) formerly of the New York Knicks Fame 64 to 63. We also upset the highly ranked Atlanta Celtics CA 42 to 40. We went 3-0 in pool play and lost to Tifton in Bracket Play.
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Monday, May 6
Team Atlanta ended up ranked 14th in Georgia out of 32 Teams at the state championships. We beat the 10th ranked team Atlanta Celtics CA head to head and had a better record 3-1 at the state championships ( they were 2-2 ) than them and others ranked higher so needless to say we dont agree with the rankings.
It was explained to me that Georgia bases the rankings on margin of victory in bracket play. So if you lose by more points you are ranked lower even if you beat the team head to head and have a better overall record. Georgia needs to change that policy.
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Saturday, January 26
We won our first tournament of the season during the Christmas/New Years break in January to start the new year off right! We had players from Alpharetta, Cambridge, Creekview, Centennial, Chattahochee and Roswell feeder teams. We also had a former Cambridge player currently living in Texas.
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Sunday, March 10
The boys took a trip up to Rome Georgia and brought home the Championship. Jeff Sandlin coached the boys to the Victory!
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Friday, August 31
We beat a very good Team Athens in the championship game to win our first tournament in 2012. We got some revenge because Team Athens beat us in an earlier tournament when we didnt have our full squad.
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Friday, August 31
Our very own Weber Sandlin attended the Phenom Top 150 Camp in San Diego CA this summer and proved to be one of the top players in the country. He represented Team Atlanta very well. Congrats to Weber.
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Tuesday, December 13
Team Atlanta won the Georgia Tar Heels AAU Tournament defeating the Georgia Stars. Ellis Merriweather and Chase Howell were voted Co- Tournament MVP's and Nate Zodula made the All Tournament Team. It was a great effort by the whole team. DJ Williams of the Georgia Stars was also on the All Tournament Team.
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Tuesday, December 13
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Sunday, January 2
Sunday, December 18
We have won Championships from 7U Recreation ball to 8th Grade Feeder Ball to 16U AAU basketball. The common thread amoung all my teams is that we win Championships. Different players, Different Levels, Different Leagues, SAME COACH. I teach kids how to play the right way! Play Fundamentally sound basketball and play as a team!
They say" the ball dont lie " and I say "the Trophies Dont Lie " "some talk it and some walk it." We are walking the walk not just talking the talk!
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Tuesday, March 23
We we go again! Our 11u boys beat the mighty Atlanta Celtics to take the Championship in the YBOA Duluth Shoot Out. We went 5-0 in the tournament and beat the Celtics twice.
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Tuesday, March 23
We are starting of the season right with our 2nd Championship in two tries. We beat Team Pass Green from South Carolina in the championship game. Our boys won $500.00 plus a free tournament voucher. We have won both AAU and YBOA Championships this year.
The D1 Spects sports writers selected an All Tournament team and three of our boys received recognition. Ellis Merriweather - Tournament MVP, EJ Snow - All Tournament team, Adam Fenlon - All Tournament Team.
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