'26 '27 season information
Thunder... Important Information! Check it Out!
Thunder, welcome back to OUR season of community ball!
What you will find below:
- registration - registration is LAST CALL!
- general season information - schedule via CMBA site, rough outline below
- coaches meeting - quick run down on Thunder along with your chance for QnA
- TBA
- evaluation dates/information - September 11th & 12th
- division date/time schedule below
- media day - team and individual player photo day
- Save the dates: Friday/Saturday October 2nd and 3rd
- division date/time schedule TBA
- Save the dates: Friday/Saturday October 2nd and 3rd
- CMBA coaching clinics - get educated and updated
- Tykes - scheduled nights and location TBA
- location: returning to Edgemont, option of night of the week form will been sent to parent/guardian
- Apparel - LIMITED quantities of items (Ts, hoodie, sweatpants, touque, hat) for sale at Media Day
- Thunder - team.community.commitment
Regular season - CMBA '26 season fall start!!!
Coaches meeting - TBA
- QnA opportunity
Evaluations are mandatory!!!
(reminder, NO evaluations for Tykes)
It is important that your child attend ALL of their scheduled evaluation. These are NOT individual time slots, evaluations run for the full division as shown in our schedule below.
Players must attend the session they are scheduled for, so NO your player cannot attend a different session.
Highlights/housekeeping notes to remember to make evaluations and our forwarding season successful for coaches, players, and parents/guardians.
- ALL FEES are required BEFORE EVALUATIONS! If you have any outstanding balances, you must log into your TeamLinkT account and have these paid.
- Arrive 20 minutes before your start time to check-in, get your assigned number, and be dressed to play
- Absolutely NO PARKING or drop-off at the East side (loading yard side) of the building
- NON-marking indoor shoes; clean sole shoes that your player will be good to run in
- athletic clothing; they will be working hard, so please dress for it (please wear a reversible jersey, if you do not have one bring a white and dark shirt)
- Water bottle with name or markings (good idea to pack a small, litterless, snack for energy)
- Bring your OWN basketball with your name or markings
- no dribbling anywhere outside of the gym!
- COME TO YOUR ASSIGNED SESSION
- final team placements will be communicated by Monday September 14th
- team coaches will communicate practice days/times directly to parents
A reminder that parents are not allowed in the gym during evaluations.
If a child has medical issues, such as diabetes, parents are to stay nearby.
**AGAIN, all evaluation gyms are CLOSED sessions.**
Evaluation Overview for Parents/Guardians & Players:
The overall purpose of evaluations is to place each player on a team where they have the best opportunity to have fun and develop as a basketball player. All registered players will be put on a team. The evaluation process will include a variety of skills/drills and team play. The evaluators will be a mix of coaches and qualified evaluators from the communities within NCBC Thunder Basketball. An evaluation panel will make all final decisions regarding team assignments.
CMBA coaching clinics - registration WILL BE available from CMBA and the courses are FREE! Final information to be released by 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 - NO evaluations for you, schedule to come!
Tykes: location; return to Edgemont and options for night of the week form will be sent to our registered players with a reply of first come, first served basis.
All players will be sent a TeamLinkT invite for their assigned night ONCE our facility schedule is available. The schedule will be posted to TeamLinkT through the week of September 13th, after our evaluations for all our older divisions are completed.
Your season will start in the following week of the 20th... ensure you attend your first assigned night for player check in/handouts!
Note: Players are NOT guaranteed a uniform size, you are making a request with your registration, and we will do our best to fulfill these requests.
NO we do NOT mix and match sizes... sorry, it is a uniform set, so hopefully you have sized yourself accordingly.
Uniforms
Thunder apparel - limited quantities for purchase on Media Day
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, .... we look forward to seeing you back in the gym for our season start. Arrive hungry so we can get after it... heart & hustle!
