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| "FINAL FOUR" ADVANCED TO CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
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"OUR PLAYERS ARE COLLEGE BOUND"
WE ARE BUILDING WINNERS, TWO YEARS STRAIGHT OUR U14 BOYS TEAMS HAVE WON THE HARDWARE...
Gold Teams from U09 to U14 must play in at least 1 Showcase Events...(Nike Kingwood Classic Houston Tx, King James Akron Ohio, Nike The Main Event Las Vegas NV)
Our mission is to give every player an opportunity to play a very highly skilled level of basketball against some of the best players in the country...
Our goal is to teach every player the value of hard work, discipline, and team play. Our desire is to make every effort to prepare our players for the next level - in life and in basketball. We want to get every player in front of as many college coaches as possible - and with this in mind, our hope and desire is that some coach will see our kids play and will want him/her for his/her program. With the never ending cost of college we feel that any scholarship money from academics or sports will help significantly...
"SAY HELLO TO THE 2008 MD STATE CHAMPIONS"
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"2008 U-14 MARYLAND STATE AAU CHAMPIONS"
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| "HOLDING THE HARDWARE"
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"2008 U17 TEAM PLAYED IN 7 SHOWCASE TOURNAMENTS"
Our U-16 thru U-17 teams competed in front of 500+ D-1, D-2 & D-3 College Coaches playing in the top Showcase Tournaments in the country...
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| "COLLEGE COACHES LOOKING ON"
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(AS WE ALWAYS SAY COACHES MIGHT NOT BE COMING TO SEE US, BUT WE ARE PLAYING THE TEAMS THEY ARE COMING TO SEE)
THE TEAM CBIZ FROM OHIO WAS RANKED IN THE TOP 10 IN THE COUNTRY...
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| "WEST VIRGINIA TRIPLE S-HARLEY-DAVIDSON JAM FEST"
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| "IN TRAVEL"
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| "2008 U17 GOLD SHOWCASE TEAM"
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| "2008 KENTUCKY HOOPFEST PLAYING TEAM REEBOK"
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"BEAT TEAM REEBOK ADVANCED TO THE SWEET 16"
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| "2007 U-14 MARYLAND AAU STATE CHAMPIONS OUR FIRST STATE CHAMPIONSHIP"
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WOODYARD HEADS TO PENN STATE "PLAYED ON MAVERICKS TEAMS SINCE U-14"
Recruiting Report
Baltimoresun.com's Matt Bracken on University of Maryland, local and national recruiting news
Winters Mill's Woodyard talks Penn State commitmentFormer UConn and now New Jersey Nets center Josh Boone and ex-Indiana guard Marshall Strickland are the two obvious choices for most notable Carroll County basketball players in recent memory. Beyond those two, coming up with a list of other recent Carroll County players to play for major DI programs is difficult, something Winters Mill guard Cammeron Woodyard was extremely cognizant of. “I don’t play in Baltimore and I don’t play in a place where there’s a lot of people recruited,” Woodyard said. Thankfully for Woodyard, his location didn’t stop him from joining the likes of Boone and Strickland at the high-major level. The 6-foot-5, 195-pound shooting guard verbally committed to Penn State on Feb. 17. Woodyard picked Penn State over offers from Longwood, Loyola, UMBC and Youngstown State. He was also receiving interest from Holy Cross. Woodyard credited Winters Mill coach Dave Herman and his AAU coach on the Maryland Mavericks, Thomas Caviness, with getting the word out to college coaches.
The AAU effect
Playing AAU basketball has big recruiting perks. The Baltimore Cougars,Cassie Cooke’s AAU team, have sent dozens of players to Division I programs.
Cammeron Woodyard, a Winters Mill graduate and the Times Boys Basketball Player of the Year last season, is a freshman at Penn State and the first boys county player to play for a D-I program since 2002 South Carroll grads Josh Boone (Connecticut) and Marshall Strickland (Indiana) enjoyed solid careers at a couple of national powers.
Woodyard credits his AAU experience for helping him get noticed as a junior. A 6-foot-5, 195-pound shooting guard, Woodyard played for the Maryland Mavericks and traveled to Las Vegas for a tournament. Woodyard says his wake-up call came when he got to Vegas and saw which college coaches were in attendance.
“All of the ACC head coaches were there standing in a circle talking, just like regular people,” Woodyard recalls. “That opened my eyes up to all the possibilities of what could happen.”
Woodyard says WM coach Dave Herman and Mavericks coach Thomas Caviness were instrumental in getting his name out to prospective programs. As the season progressed the same colleges kept in contact and when Penn State had an open scholarship the choice became simpler.
“Making the final decision makes things a little easier,” Woodyard says. “After that, you have to face reality. You’re going to the Big Ten, you’re going to be playing big-time basketball.”
But not all roads to D-I run directly through AAU.
Boone’s travels from SC to UConn had him stopping off for a year at West Nottingham Academy, a prep school in northeastern Maryland. In 2002-03, Boone averaged 25.5 points, 16 rebounds and 9.5 blocks before heading to Storrs, Conn., and the Huskies.
The 6-10 forward, who now plays in the NBA for the New Jersey Nets, spent his AAU days with Cecil Kirk in Baltimore, alongside Memphis Grizzlies forward Rudy Gay.
For all of these athletes, getting to that point comes only after being courted, a process that is often both straining and flattering but can be most rewarding.
AAU VISION
To offer amateur athletes and volunteers opportunities to develop to their highest level through a national and local network of sporting events. Through participation in AAU, we achieve our dreams as athletes and as valued citizens of our communities.
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USE BOTH HANDS
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AAU MISSION
To offer amateur sports programs through a volunteer base for all people to have the physical, mental, and moral development of amateur athletes and to promote good sportsmanship and good citizenship.
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I GOT NEXT
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| "2007 RUNNER UP IN THE MARYLAND STATE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME"
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Our mission is to give every player an opportunity to We are very pleased that since 2004 22 Mavericks players have moved on to play college ball and many more are attending college and have experienced playing againest the best players in the country...
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| 10 SHOWCASE EVENTS 9 WINS OVER TEAMS RANKED IN THE TOP 20 IN THE COUNTRY
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2007 GOLD SHOWCASE TEAM
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CONGRATULATIONS TO BOTH U-15'S & U-16 TEAMS (2004)
OUR VARSITY TEAMS PLAYED IN FRONT OF 580 PLUS COLLEGE COACHES IN 2006, WE FAIRED WELL WITH TWO PLAYERS RECEIVING LETTERS FROM D1 SCHOOLS AND 7 OTHER PLAYERS RECEIVING LETTERS FROM D-3 SCHOOLS OFFERING ACADEMIC HELP TO WALK ON TO PLAY...(GREATWORK)
Thumbs up to both of our 15-under teams for finishing 5th and 6th in the regional state of Maryland AAU Champinship tournament.
(THE TOP SIX TEAMS IN THE STATE HAVE ADVANCED TO THE AAU NATIONALS IN CLARKSVILLE TENN. OR NEW ORLEANS.)
PLEASE SIGN OUR GUEST BOOK (WE NEED YOUR HELP)
We need volunteers and coaches please sign our guest book and let us know if you would like to help us help our youth
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WE NEED COACHES.....
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CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 15-UNDER 2003
THUMBS UP TO OUR 15'S IN 2003 FOR COMING IN AS THE RUNNER-UP IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAME AT THE AYBT PENN STATE NATIONALS IN STATE COLLEGE, PA.
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 13-UNDER 2003
THUMBS UP TO OUR 13-UNDER IN 2003 FOR COMING IN 3RD PLACE IN THE YBOA JD CLASSIC AND THE MARYLAND STALLIONS CLASSIC
THUMBS UP FOR COMING IN 2ND PLACE AND RECEIVING A INVITATION TO PLAY IN THE D-2 NATIONALS IN INDIANA
THUMBS UP FOR MAKING IT TO THE SEMI FINIAL ROUND OF THE AYBT EAST COAST NATIONALS AT PENN STATE IN STATE COLLEGE.
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