'22 '23 Season!
Thunder... Important Information! Check it Out!
Thunder, welcome back to a full REGULAR season of community ball!
What you will find below:
- CMBA Divisions/teams - tiering breakdown for peer-to-peer play
- CMBA - season outline to winter break
- coaches meeting - quick run down on Thunder along with your chance for QnA
- date and location TBD
- Tykes - we are up and running!
- Thunder - team.community.commitment
Covid/public health notice:
CMBA, and by way of extension Thunder, adjusts and abides by any requests/requirements from our facility rentals, municipalities, and/or AHS on public requirements
Registration - closed!
Thank you all for your registration, please be aware of your evaluation schedule below.
Divisions - Teams
Teams are tiered to find peer-to-peer play against other Zone teams in CMBA. Through that game play teams may shift brackets, meaning that just because you are Team 6, your team might find better competition in division 4 and could still play a Team 2 from another Zone. Again, the aim is to find competitive teams, and successively games that offer best match ups. So knowing that, please do not focus on teams/divisions, but instead dial in on your own team, how to grow and develop with them, and help us all make the season successful.
- u11 girls
- 1-3 tiered skill
- u13 girls
- 1-4 tiered skill
- u15 girls
- 1-3 tiered skill
- u18 girls
- 1-2 tiered skill
- u11 boys
- 1-4 tiered skill
- 5-6 balanced/even skill (teams 5a and 5b)
- 7-9 balanced/even skill (teams 6a, 6b, and 6c)
- u13 boys
- 1-4 tiered skill
- 5-6 balanced/even skill (teams 5a and 5b)
- 7-9 balanced/even skill (teams 6a, 6b, and 6c)
- u15 boys
- 1-4 tiered skill
- 5-7 balanced/even skill (teams 5a, 5b, and 5c)
- 8-10 balanced/even skill (teams 6a, 6b, and 6c)
- u18 boys
- 1-3 tiered skill
- 4-5 balanced/even skill (no change on identifying the team name as the season is already in progress)
Regular season - CMBA '22 season fall start!!!
Kick off of the CMBA '22 season is anticipated to be a regular season as facility rentals are being released by the City and school boards for our use.
- U11, U13, U15, U18
- practices schedules to be released once teams are formed
- players will be contacted via email/TeamSnap invite
- u18 - FALL season starts September 17th
- September 17th - Fall U18 Girls & Boys League 22-minute seeding games - Week 1
- September 24th - Fall U18 Girls & Boys League 22-minute seeding games - Week 2
- October 1st - Fall U18 Girls & Boys League Regular Season Games Begin - Game 1
- October 15th - U18 High School Regular Season - Game 2
- October 22nd - U18 High School Regular Season - Game 3
- October 29th - U18 High School Regular Season Ends - Game 4
- November 5th - U18 High School Playoffs Begin
- November 12th - U18 High School Playoffs End
- **break**
- December/January winter season registration/evaluations - dates TBD
- January 7th - Winter U18 Boys Ken Brown SOTT Div 1 Tournament; Seeding for all U18 Divisions both Girls/Boys
- January 14th - U18 Winter Regular Season Week 1
- January 21st - U18 Winter Regular Season Week 2
- January 28th - U18 Winter Regular Season Week 3
- February 4th - U18 Winter Regular Season Week 4
- February 11th - U18 Winter Regular Season Week 5
- February 18th - Family Weekend No CMBA games
- February 25th - CMBA Playoffs Begin for U18
- March 4th - CMBA Playoffs End for U18
- March 10/11th - ABA Youth Provincials as per eligibility
- CMBA schedule outline below, your team practices TBD on weeknights
- u11, u13, u15 - season starts October 15th
- 3 - 22 minute games
- your seeding games will typically be at the same facility per weekend, meaning one destination to drive to, though they will be City wide as per usual
- CMBA schedule outline below, your team practices TBD on weeknights
- October 1st - JTT as per eligibility
- October 15th - U11B, U13G, U15B, Seeding Rd 1
- October 22nd - U11G, U13B, U15G, Seeding Rd 1
- October 29th - U11B, U13G, U15B, Seeding Rd 2
- November 5th - U11G, U13B, U15G, Seeding Rd 2
- November 12th - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Rd 1 Seeding - Regular Timed Games
- November 19th - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Rd 1 Seeding - Regular Timed Games
- November 26th - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Rd 1 Seeding - Regular Timed Games
- December 3rd - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Rd 2 Seeding - Regular Timed Games
- December 10th - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Rd 2 Seeding - Regular Timed Games
- **break**
- January 14th - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Round 3
- January 21st - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Round 3
- January 28th - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Round 3
- February 4th - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Round 3
- February 11th - All B & G teams - U11, U13, U15 Round 3
- February 18th - Family Weekend No CMBA games
- February 25th - CMBA Playoffs Begin for all age levels U11, U13, U15, U18
- March 4th - CMBA Playoffs End for all age levels U11, U13, U15, U18
- March 10/11th - ABA Youth Provincials as per eligibility
- City and school boards are allowing our rental agreements to proceed for the '22 season!
- Thunder (aka Bonnie) will schedule practices for your team and communication on this will be done with your coach/manager
- do NOT write in and ask for a specific player practice day as our scheduling is NOT done based on player requests
- practice on a weeknight(s)
- most of our gyms will be secured within our Zone
- seeding round mini tournament weekends - CMBA schedule TBD
- September - AFTER the weekend of the 9/10th ALL evaluations will be complete with teams set for competition play
- Game play starts
Coaches meeting - TBD, likely a weeknight following evaluations
- first 20-30 minutes will be a run through on Thunder basketball (intent, expectations, etc)
- 10 minutes or so of QnA
- back end of the meeting will be an overview of "how to run a practice"
- warm up
- balance of drill(s) to game play
- progression through drills
- repetition between drills and game play
- short start and stops, communication throughout, what is working and what needs work
- give coaches a general idea of how to utilize your time with your team
- and of course QnA
- high fives offered out to conclude the evening
CMBA coaching clinics - registration will be released once it is available from CMBA.
If you THINK you might coach, sign up! We need volunteer coaches, and these will not be determined until later. So worse case scenario in doing a clinic, you do not coach, but have gained a little more basketball knowledge!
All coaches come out with only the best of intentions and parallel to that thought, CMBA wants to make sure you have the foundational tools to build off of... plus keep in mind this sport evolves! With that thought in mind it is also a moment to reiterate that CMBA ball is based on the Canadian style of play.... what does that mean?!? Perfect, you register, take the FREE course and learn it, to implement it! Click here to register.
CMBA has been at the leading edge of offering the most up-to-date and well researched youth sports development models to their coaches. The concepts and ideas presented in the CMBA Coach Development clinics has resulted in exciting success - the feedback provided by coaches attest to this fact. Years of research & development in youth sports has resulted in proven teaching techniques, proven decision-making processes and proven Style of Play concepts that coaches are encouraged to utilize. CMBA has embraced these best-in-class concepts and the results speak for themselves.
Canada Basketball's Long Term Athlete Development (LTAD) Model, Rick Torbett's Read & React Offense and Point Guard College's concepts to develop players are all utilized in CMBA's Fall CD Program.
Tykes - programming has started!
All Tykes players will have received their TeamSnap invite. TeamSnap is a free app, you will want to make sure you have logged in and turned on notifications to avoid missing anything as it will be our main platform to connect on throughout the season of play.
Players will have received their basketball on the first night, and we have jerseys that are anticipated to arrive before the end of September to have them all looking fresh!
Thunder apparel - optional Ts and Hoodies
We have ordered a few additional Thunder city Ts and/or hoodies.... so there will be a limited opportunity for purchase that we will announce late September!
Thunder - team.community.commitment
Lets be ready for the season, excited for the opportunity to play ball, and ensure we are respectful to all involved. From your Thunder board, to your coaches, to CMBA, to our facilities, to your family, to our competitors.... we show up, leave it all on the floor, and ALWAYS do it with respect!
Being part of Thunder is being part of our team, you are our community and we are committed to offering each other the best basketball experience possible. It is a sport, we are competitive, and in it we always show good sportsmanship!
To you all, .... have a great summer and we look forward to seeing you back in the gym for September. Arrive hungry so we can get after it... heart & hustle!
