LVBS: Welcome

Lehigh Valley Basketball School (LVBS) is a registered AAU organization committed to the development of basketball players from the beginner to the advanced level of play. We believe that the correct combination of instruction, player development, and top-level competition allows each member of the Lehigh Valley Basketball School to reach their complete basketball potential.

Philosophy and Mission Statement  Founded in the fall of 2006, the Lehigh Valley Basketball School's main objective is to provide a foundation in building out a first class organization for the "serious" player in the Lehigh Valley. By providing a positive learning environment and quality basketball instruction to boys and girls, ages 11 to 17, the Lehigh Valley Basketball School will carry out it's mission of retaining and exposing the local player. The Lehigh Valley Basketball School will provide each one of its members with the opportunity to compete in regional and national level tournaments as well as exposure to the best coaching at the grassroots level of basketball, with a heavy emphasis on player development.

In addition, the Lehigh Valley Basketball School is a sponsored program. The School's relationship with Fasst Performance and provides individual programs enhancing our players basketball speed, agility, and strength. Our relationship with the Hoop Group and Five Star Basketball Camp entitles our members to discounts on some of their camp sessions. Local Businesses also contribute to our program through donations and their services.

Program Description and Evaluation  A key component of the School will be to broaden the youngster's range of experience through travel for tournament and exhibition play. The tournaments in which they play will provide them the opportunity to be measured against the best in New York City, Philadelphia, Canada, and the United States.

Currently there are over 100 players in the Lehigh Valley Basketball School serving seven boys teams and one girls team. In 2011 AAU went to a grade division tournament format. LVBS in 2012 will field boys teams in grades 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th and 11th. Currently there is a girls team representing grade 6th. 

While success of our organization can be measured in games and tournaments won, the clearest measure of success for the Lehigh ValleyBasketball School will be the high school diplomas earned, college scholarships awarded, and graduates being productive in a wide variety of other respected professions.

Therefore, every effort is made to keep life in the organization simple and straightfoward. From the rules of the game itself and those of good sportmanship, the Lehigh Valley Basketball School players and coaches must abide by the following rules:

1. All players must attend school and maintain a C average to participate.
2. No drugs or alcohol.
3. Hats and caps off in the gym.
4. No fighting or foul language.

Relationships  Close relationships with local and national high school and college coaches gives the Lehigh Valley Basketball School  the opportunity to host top level clinics and projects on a local basis. In addition, it is our goal to use these relationships to help facilitate and expose our players to college teams throughout the country. Some of these relationships are with the following schools:

Division I - Syracuse, Seton Hall, Michigan, Penn State, Wagner, Northeastern, St. Joseph's, St John's, Cornell, Colgate, Columbia, SUNY Albany, Hofstra, Boston College

Division II - Newberry College, St. Rose, Lemoyne, Kutztown, Bloomsburg St., East Stroudsburg University

Division III - DeSales, Ithaca, Hamilton, Franklin and Marshall, SUNY Potsdam, Moravian,  SUNY IT, Muhlenberg, Kings, Alvernia,  USMMA, University of Scranton, Ursinus , Penn St. York,

www.twitter.com/LVBSBRKNEWS  

Congratulations LVBS Elite player Jimmy Vaughan and Allentown Central Catholic on winning the District 11 AAA basketball championship over Wilson High School.

Good Luck in the State Champiuonship 

LVBS 9th Grade Team looking for players to compete in AAU and non-sanctioned AAU tournaments March through June.

If Interested please contact Scott Gallagher at 484 - 201-0799 or email       sgallagher@atlsmin.com

Brent Maron propels Salisbury High School to 11th Colonial League boys basketball championship

http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/sports/index.ssf/2012/02/brent_maron_propels_salisbury.html

LVBS Elite players Matt Wisely and Steve Gigler lead Emmaus to LVC crown over Freedom

Matt Wisely's game-tying shot with 10 seconds left and Emmaus High School's boys basketball team hung on for a 47-44 victory over Freedom in the Lehigh Valley Conference title game before a screaming capacity crowd at Allen High School's Milo Sewards Gym.

"This feels awesome," said the 6-foot-7 Wiseley, who had a stellar night with 17 points and 17 rebounds.

Gigler's defense and clutch shooting helped keep Freedon's runs in the second half at bay.

Congratulations to Matt Wisely (Emmaus) and Brent Maron (Salisbury) for making their LVC and Colonial League all - star teams. Both will be leading their respective teams this weekend in their league Championship game.

Also, a big shout out to all LVBS players that will be starting District play next week.

Bethlehem, Pa. 

Pat Moore loves the Lehigh Valley

Former Notre Dame, Utica star and Blackout Session Player (BST) player Pat Moore's torrid shooting kept Colgate University in the game against Lehigh last night. Moore got little help from the rest of his team but kept Colgate in the game until the 11:00 minute mark by hitting his first 7 three point attempts and finishing the game going for 8 - 10 for a game high 23 points.

Two years ago Moore set the gym scoring record at NDGP in the Jeff Dailey tournament against Pius X scoring 46 points.

LVBS Elite player Brent Maron runs the show for 8th state ranked and undefeated Salisbury High School averaging over 10 points and 6 assists a game while guarding the opposing teams point guard. Brent has been in the LVBS organization for over four years and will continue his play at the next level .

Great job Brent !

Allentown, Pa.

With the first quarter of games played in thise season's PIAA basketball season LVBS players, senior Brent Maron,

Matt Wisley, and Zach Muhr have played major roles in leading  their teams to the top of their divisions.

Maron is the starting point guard on state ranked Salisbury leading the team to a 9 - 0 record.

Wisley is the go to man on a Emmaus team  that is 7 - 1.

Muhr is Mr. Everything for a 7 - 0 undefeated Parkland team.

2012 LVBS Co - Hosted TOURNAMENTS

www.midatlanticeliteclassic.com

April 13 - 15

Fourth Annual Mid Atlantic Elite Classic

DeSales University

May 18 - 20

First Annual Mid Atlantic Elite New York Classic

State University of New York Information Technology

June 1 - 3

First Annual Mid Atlantic Elite Girls Classic

DeSales Univesity

Emmaus

Matt Wisley

Steven Gigler

Liberty

Erik Carlstorm

Notre Dame

Jordan Jachim

Connor Reed

Tannor Reed

Vincent Eze

Central Catholic

Steven Dunleavy

Jimmy Vaughan

Parkland

Zach Muhr

Daulton Charles

Tyler DeLong

Ryan Keller

Connor Ceh

Tim Carlon

Southern Lehigh

Casey Krause

Zach Stout

Suacon Valley

Cameron Weeks

Christian Kennedy

Upper Perkiomen

Chandler Junk

Salisbury

Brent Maron

Boyertown

Griffin Pasik

Allentown, Pa.

Twenty Five LVBS players from around the Lehigh Valley participated in the 2011 Stellar Catch A Rising Star basketball tournament played at Cedar Beach courts in Allentown over the weekend of July 8th. College coaches from the tri-state area have shown interest in more than 10 LVBS players participating in the event.

Congrats to North Country college

summer league teammate Rick Carlisle

and the Dallas Mavs on winning the

2011 NBA Championship and playing the

right way

Bethlehem Township, Pa.

June 8, 2011

LVBS Elite and Notre Dame Green Pond 1000 point scorer Adam Ambielli will continue his basketball career at the next level and play for the Saint John Fisher Cardinals and coach Rob Kornaker in Rochester, NY. For the second straight year Adam was a Colonial League All-Star and scored his 1000 point this past season playing for the Blue and Gold Crusaders. Adam played for the 17U LVBS Elite team during the 2010 AAU season.

Good luck Adam and represent LVBS !

About the Cardinals:

 Last season, Fisher made its 18th consecutive trip to the postseason and returned to the NCAA Division III Championships. The Cardinals, who reached as high a national ranking as 22 throughout the season, posted a stellar 15-1 record in the Empire 8 Conference and made it to the second round of the national tournament before bowing out and ending the season with a 23-6 overall record – the program’s 23rd consecutive winning campaign.
 
In the 2004-2005 season, Kornaker’s Cardinals finished with a 28-1 overall record, including an undefeated regular season. That season, Fisher set College records for wins in a season and consecutive wins (28)—and obtained the program’s highest national ranking, climbing to No. 3 in the d3hoops.com national poll. Fisher entered the 2005 postseason as the only undefeated team in all of college basketball at 27-0.

In the 2005-2006 season, Fisher advanced to the “Elite 8” of the NCAA Division III Championship, the furthest into the postseason the Cardinals have ever been in their 44-year history.

In the 2006-2007 season, Fisher finished with a 24-6 overall record, marking the program’s fifth-straight 20-win season, a feat accomplished by just five other institutions.

Bethlehem, Pa.

June 5, 2011

Tim Carlon (Parkland), Christian Kennedy (Saucon Valley), Erik Carlstrom (Liberty), Bret Maron (Salisbury), Zach Muhr (Parkland), Matt Wisley (Emmaus), Steven Gigler (Emmaus), Sean Dunleavy (ACC)

LVBS Elite 12U team will be hosting the Darryl Dawkins Youth Basketball Clinic on June 17th from 6-8pm at East Side Youth Center to help fund their trip to Nationals.

Blackout Session Training (BST) starts on Thursday June 16th and will run on consecutive Tuesday and Thursday's through the month of August at Notre Dame Green Pond main gymnasium. These high intense workout sessions are for serious boys and girls basketball players. The sessions will run from:

6:30 PM - 7:30PM   and 7:30PM - 8:30PM. One of these sessions is for girls only.

Each session is limited to five (5) players.

BST fee is $350 for ten (10) one hour sessions.

For information call 610-751-7159.

May 22, 2011

Philadlephia University 

LVBS Elite (17U) team enjoyed a successful weekend playing in the Philly Jam Fest.  We split our games on Saturday (won by 19 vs Philly Knights; lost by 2 vs Keystone Blazers).  We won our first game on Sunday morning against an unbeaten, physical team from Baltimore to win our bracket.  Unfortunately, we ran into an excellent team in the Game 7 Shore Sharks from Middletown, NJ who ended our tournament in the semi-finals game. The Sharks went on to win the tournament.     The boys should be proud of their effort this weekend.  We played excellent defense, rebounded the ball well, and were unselfish on the offensive end.

We did experience a casualty today as Timmy Carlon broke two bones in his lower right leg attempting to block a shot.     He’ll be in a splint for a few days until the swelling subsides enough for a hard cast to be placed on his leg.  Timmy will be sorely missed for the remainder of the AAU season.  Timmy brings a lot of enthusiasm and passion to the LVBE Elite.  He likes the 3 ball as well.  He is expected to be out 4-8 weeks.   Please join me in wishing Timmy a quick recovery  and a hopeful return for the Stellar Tournament. 

We couldn’t quite get it done.  We started the year with 4 great guards, but with injuries we only had one ballhandler left.

We had to play the semi-finals with only 6 players.  We were trailing the Delaware Panthers by 3 with less than a minute left, but hit 4 foul shots down the stretch to pull out the win.

Today we played #8 ranked Team Nelson in the finals.  We kept it within 6-8 points the whole game but couldn’t make a final run.

Very proud of the boys, two straight Mid-Atlantic District runner-up finishes is still a great accomplishment.  Hopefully next year we can get over the hump.

John Snead

Head Coach

May 14th,

Sparta, NJ 

The LVBS Elite 9th Grade team came back from a 22 - 6 deficit and went on to defeat the 2011 NJ State D2 AAU champion New Jersey Thunder Saturday morning at Dream Fields in Sparta, NJ. The Thunder were made up of players from St. Anthony's and St. Peter's of Jersey City, Don Bosco Prep, Pope John High, and Morristown. They brought a front line of 6'7, 6'7, and 6'6 and a point guard from #1 ranked St. Anthony's from Jersey City. 

 Final Score 68 - 62 with LVBS missing the front end of 1-1 four times in the last minute.

Wilkes Barre, Pa.

All three LVBS Elite teams played in The Ruckus tournament this past weekend in Wilkes Barre, Pa. and posted a combined record of 10 - 2.  Our nationally ranked 6th grade team ran the table and won all four games by an average point margin of 30+ points. The 9th grade Elite team finished runner up going 3 -1 loosing to the Central Penn Ballers in the championship game   61 - 55 and our 11th grade Elite team also went 3 - 1 loosing to 21hoops by 8 in their championship game.

CONGRATULATIONS TO LVBS ELITE and BST PLAYER ZACH MUHR ON PARKLANDS HOOP GROUP MVP AWARD

Good Luck to all LVBS Players and their Teams !

Allentown Central Catholic

Jimmy Vaughan - JV/Varsity

Shaun Topper - JV

Al Gregg - Varsity

Sean Dunleavy - Varsity

Boyertown

Griffin Pasik - JV

Dylan Pasik - Varsity

Emmaus

Matt Wisely - Varsity

Austin LaBar - Frosh

Kazir White - Frosh

Steven Gigler - Varsity

Nathan Tannous - Varsity

Liberty

Erik Carlstrom

Nazareth

Tank Shiffert

Notre Dame Green Pond

Dillon Huerta - Varsity

Adam Ambiele - Varsity

Connor Hughes - Varsity

Patrick Burkhart - Varsity

Anthony Ross - Varsity

Noah Miller - Varsity

Jared Miller - Varsity

Connor Reed - Varsity

George Bradley - JV/Varsity

Jordan Jachim - JV/Varsity

Connor Lydon - Frosh

Stephen Conway - Varsity

Parkland

Zach Muhr - Varsity

Ben Miller - Varsity

Daulton Charles - Varsity

Tyler Delong - Varsity

Matt Kelly - Varsity

Teddy Cosgrove - Varsity

Ryan Keller - Frosh

Connor Ceh - Frosh

Tim Carlon - Varsity

Pottsville

Henry Miller - JV

Saucon Valley

Cameron Weeks - JV

Salisbury

Brent Maron

Southern Lehigh

Casey Krause - JV

Good Luck BST Players in Your 2010 - 2011 Basketball Season

Zach Muhr - Parkland High School

Matt Kelly - Parkland High School

Ryan Keller - Parkland High School

Jared Silevrstein - Springhouse Middle School

Justin Lenzer - Bethlehem Catholic High School

Tyler Kohl - Notre Dame High School

Jordan Jachim - Notre Dame High School

Dan Loreti - Notre Dame High School

Connor Lydon - Notre Dame High School

Dan Riechenbach - Salisbury High School

Casey Krause - Southern Lehigh High School

Chris Vaughan - St. Thomas More

Bredan Riechenbach - St. Thomas More

Jake White - St. Thomas More

Thomas Colaiezzi - St. Thomas More

Victor Estreymera - Lehigh Valley Charter

Leila Weiss - Nueman University

Jordan Pasik - Kutztown University

Pat Moore - Colgate University

Jon Ward - Ursinus College

David Salerno - Penn St. York

Congratulations and Good Luck To All Blackout Session Training (BST) Players on the 2009/2010 Middle School, High School, and College Basketball Season

Casey Krause - Southern Lehigh Frosh

Zach Stout - Southern Lehigh JV

Evan Lee - Southern Lehigh Varsity

Ryan Spirko - Wilson Area

Tim Sullivan - Emmaus Varsity

Austin LaBar - Eyer Middle School

Ryan Carlon - Parkland Varsity

Matt Kelly - Parkland Varsity

Zach Muhr - Parkland Varsity

Tim Carlon - Parkland JV

Jordan Jachim - Springhouse Middle School

Ryan Keller - Springhouse Middle School

Justin Lenzer - Orefield Middle School

Sean Dunleavy - Central Catholic JV

David Salerno - Notre Dame-GP Varsity

Noah Miller - Notre Dame-GP Varsity/JV

Dillon Huerta - Notre Dame-GP Varsity/JV

Shuan Topper - St. Thomas More Catholic School

Jimmy Vaughan - St. Thomas More Catholic School

Connor Lydon - Cathedral Catholic School

Cameron Weeks - Suacon Valley Frosh

Pat Moore - Notre Dame, Utica, NY (Colgate signee)

Matt Petrone - Union College

Jon Ward - Ursinus College

Jordan Pasik - Bloomsburg State (women)

Leila Weiss - St. Pius X Varsity (women)

Katie Yext - Southern Lehigh JV (women)