Basketball Academy of Excellence

🌱 Thoughtful Thursday | Spring Beginnings 🏀

As spring begins, it’s a reminder that growth doesn’t happen overnight.

In youth basketball, the best players aren’t always the tallest, the fastest, or the ones scoring the most points right now. The players who grow the most are the ones who stay curious, stay coachable, and keep showing up — even when improvement feels slow.

Spring is the perfect time to plant new habits:
• Practicing the fundamentals a little longer
• Encouraging a teammate
• Listening and learning from mistakes
• Choosing effort over excuses

At Basketball Academy of Excellence, we believe basketball is more than a game. It’s a classroom for life — teaching patience, resilience, and the value of consistent work.

What you plant in practice today will grow into confidence tomorrow.

Let this spring be the season where your effort starts to bloom. 🌱🏀

Just like every jump shot, every dribble, every step—your progress is built one move at a time. At The Sanctuary Collective & Basketball Academy of Excellence, we don’t just train skills; we build resilience. Keep pushing, keep striving—your greatness is on the other side of hard work. BasketballTraining BaltimoreBasketball

A well deserved once in a life time honor for our very own Carmelo Anthony!!! Come out and celebrate a world class exibit of the numerous milestones, life lesson, reflection, and dreams! After you have seen the exibit walk over and watch our elementary school league just across the street at The Sanctuary.

IT'S NATIONAL LAUNCH DAY 2025 for KICKS 4the SOUL
POWERED BY WWW.GYIFT.ORG and the WWW.BASKETBALLACADEMYOFEXCELLENCE.COM in conjunction with https://www.sanctuary-collective.org/

Summer is almost over and we know you are planning to level up your footwear game before school starts! Well, let us give you the perfect excuse to buy a few more pair of KICKS. KICKS 4the SOUL is a national shoe drive with the target of collecting 10,000 pair of gently used Basketball, Running, Tennis, Soccer, athletic shoes to be sorted and prepped from August 1st 2025 to October 31st 2025. Shoes will be counted, packaged and shipped by water November - December 2025, with estimated arrival in first quarter 2026 in Zambia. Shoes will be distributed to youth organizations in Central & Southern Africa to pay it forward through a simple gesture of shoe donation. Not only do these shoes get a second chance to be the perfect fit for some young athlete to take their games to the next level, they also prevent 1000's more premature additions to the landfill all over the country. So lets GO... GET to it, check under the bed, in the back of the closet, the pair in the corner you thought you loved but they just didn't work..... EVERY PAIR COUNTS!!!!!!
There will be drop off boxes in various locations around the DMV and across the United States in select cities. Baltimore, Maryland www.sanctuary-collective.org;
Wi******er, Virginia Shenandoah University www.SU.edu;
Long Beach, California; Orlando, Florida. More cities to be added soon!
PLEASE JOIN US IN THE EFFORT TO SEND 1000'S OF BLESSING TO CHILDREN WHO WILL TRULY APPRECIATE YOUR KINDNESS. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN MAKING A MONETARY DONATION TO HELP US SHIP THE COLLECTED SHOES, PLEASE VISIT WWW.GYIFT.ORG FOR MORE DETAILS. ALL DONATIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE DETAILS ARE ATTACHED IN FLYER BELOW!!!

To all friends and family, find the link below to be with us on Friday morning!

Love you all

Myke Scholl Memorial Live Stream Live Stream Memorial honoring the life of Myke SchollStream begins Friday, July 26, at 10:45 A.M. PSTService begins at 11:00 A.M. PST

When you support the brand, you help us continue the work with youth basketball around the 🌎! Get your today.... B.A.E. here we come 🔥🔥💪🏾

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Basketball Academy of Excellence Our mission at the Basketball Academy of Excellence is to help players develop individual skills, build confidence as a player and teammate, and to increase players’ overall knowledge of the game, ultimately leading players to achieving their highest player potential.