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Peel Halton Youth Basketball Association
PHYBA is a community organization committed to providing recreational enjoyment and community spirit for the youth. Though primarily organized by the Filipino community, PHYBA does accept non-Filipino youth with the understanding that these players must begin playing for PHYBA at the junior level in order to insure that they also accept and foster the Filipino community spirit. The founding teams that compose PHYBA come from Brampton, Oakville, and of course Mississauga. We also have a few teams travelling from Toronto to compete in the older divisions.
Philosophy & Mission
PHYBA Philosophy:
The main commitment of PHYBA is to our youth. It is an opportunity to provide our youth with a positive extra-curricular activity to replace the wholly negative influences of society. Though there is a competitive spirit amongst the teams, PHYBA has tried to distance itself from other competitive leagues by focusing on the character development of our youth rather than just providing competitive basketball. All players regardless of ability are gladly accepted no tryouts. PHYBA provides the league setting where teams from various member organizations compete within age divisions.
North Stars Philosophy:
As a founding member of PHYBA, the North Stars have embraced the spirit that has lead to the creation of PHYBA. North Stars have established player development and coaching guildelines which emphasize our dedication to the development of our youth. We are active participants of social events which we hope to strengthen the community spirit of our youth. In fact, many social events are community oriented and include members of all team organizations. Because of this, there is an understanding that all members cannot field select teams, i.e., there can be no tryouts to be a member of a team. All youth are welcome
the only consideration is that there are available coaches for the players, and priority for limited spaces will be extended to existing player members. To maintain its high level of commitment to its players, PHYBA is a member of the Ontario Basketball Association and are dedicated to establishing the ideas and theories through the Raptor-Bell program.
North Stars Mission:
The North Stars are committed to providing our youth a safe enjoyable recreational environment where the spirit of community will be strengthened, and where their physical, emotional, and mental development will be enhanced through competitive play.
About Winning... A Coach's Point Of View
Finally, about winning…
My whole philosophy in regards to coaching was that we provide a fun place to play and good coaching, and the wins will fall in place. I had never actively coached with winning as the only goal. But with all the different PHYBA members, and all have their own agenda’s, it is difficult not to get caught up in the competitive and sometimes nasty atmosphere. The fact remains is that some players would prefer to sit on the bench of a winning team, then be actively developing and playing while on a losing team. Some parents and coaches become focused on winning and demonstrate this during the game with rude behaviour and poor basketball ethics during game play. I have felt like quitting in frustration when I see this type of attitude exemplified by these adult role models. Though, I have heard that it is worse in some other leagues, I still despise it when I see it in my own.
PHYBA (as well as most Filipino leagues) is a hybrid entity. We are mandated to accept all players who wish to play regardless of ability. Thus we have many beginning players. This is like all house-leagues. Yet unlike house-league teams where players are placed in a pool and divided evenly, each team is allowed to recruit their own talent. This is like a rep team. It is this hybrid nature of this league where essential philosophical problems with trying to coach developing players.
Sometimes through aggressive recruiting, silent tryouts, and appeal of the team’s reputation, there are powerhouse teams that seem to dominate over years. They then draw the top talent from weaker teams while average players quit in frustration. Eventually you have one or two teams left with no other team available to play against them. This destroys the idea of friendly competitive play. This need to dominate the competition at all cost may not be a clear and written mandate but it is systemic in the structure of these organizations. These are the organizations that will only field one bloated team where their stronger players get more than their usual playing time, and then justify it with reasons that they do not have enough coaches. Few years ago, I coached three Tyke teams alongside my Peewee team. While the North Stars try to field as many teams as they can, these guilty organizations continually have all their talent in one team.
In fact, I usually find coaching house league soccer in the summer less stressful and more gratifying. Our blind drafts ensure teams are generally equal, and the challenge is to develop your players individual skills as well as create team cohesiveness. Whether a coach has a winning season or losing season, he does not despair in the reality that the deck was stacked against him.
As a coach I try not to get caught up in the fire of winning. Yet, I am still stuck between the desire to teach basketball with the principles of integrity, and the need to ensure the survival of the team as an entity in the midst of heart breaking losses causing player defection. Though I am not proud to admit this, I have had to be equally aggressive in recruiting other top talent to insure a level playing field and to insure that my teams continue to appear appealing to developing and future players.
But in the end… I will return to my ideals, and try to coach our players with the principles that I wish to they themselves would adopt.
Coach Jose
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