ASBA NEWS, Monday, May 9, 2016 - Working Toward Our Goal!

At the beginning of the 2015-16 AAU Youth Basketball Season, Atlanta Select established a goal for capturing 100 trophies as an organization by September 1, 2016. 

The goal was based on 33 active teams earning 3 trophies each. 

With each team playing at least 8 tournaments it was reasonable that out of 8 tournaments a team should make it to the championship round at least 3 times. 

That goal was written down and disseminated to all teams.

I am proud to say with nearly 4 more months remaining before September 1, 2016, the organization is en route to accomplished its goal.

Several teams have played or will be playing in more than 8 tournaments.  And there may be teams that play in 8 tournaments and not make it to a championship game. Do we write them off? No! Our underlining concept is, if a team and its players are better as student athletes on Sept 1, than they were on March 1 of this year then the team has been successful.

But why a goal of 100 trophies or 3 trophies per team?

Because Atlanta Select believes in setting organizational goals.

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 Organizational goals serve four basic functions;

1. 1. goals direct action and effort toward goal-related activities and away from unrelated activities.
2. 2. goals energize employees. Challenging goals lead to higher employee effort than easy goals.
3. 3. goals affect persistence. Employees exert more effort to achieve high goals.
4. 4. goals motivate employees to use their existing knowledge to attain a goal or to acquire the knowledge needed to do so.
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These are the teams that added to the "Trophy Count" last weekend.

The Mighty 13u Lady Select WHITE with Head Coach Lewis.

CHAMPIONS.

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The Mighty 14u Lady Select RED with Coaches McCrae and McCadney

CHAMPIONS

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The Mighty Atlanta Select 12u BLACK 2022 with Coaches Keown and Elston

CHAMPIONS

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The Mighty Atlanta Select 16u RED with Head Coach Burton

CHAMPIONS

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The Mighty Atlanta Select Sons of Thunder with Head Coach Cooke

CHAMPIONS

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The Mighty Lady Select 13u BLACK with Head Coach Brown

Runner - Up 

Peach State May Day Tournament

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The Mighty Atlanta select Roswell Bombers with Head Coach Krantz

Runner-up Georgia Cup

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The Mighty Atlanta Select 9u SYNERGY Select with Coaches Baskerville and Jackson

Runner-up Mother's Day Classic

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Congratulations to all.

The Trophy Count = 68

Coach E. Cooke - 4th Grade Sons of Thunder = 9
Coach T. McCrae -8th Grade Lady Select RED = 8

Coach G. Stewart - 4th Grade SYNERGY Select = 7

Coach Mandeldove - 2d Grade BLACK Diamond Future = 4

Coach Mandeldove - 3d Grade BLACK Diamond Elite = 4
Coach Brown - 7th Grade Lady Select BLACK = 4

Coach K. Jackson - 3d Grade SOUTH Side = 3

Coach R. Harris 5th Grade SILVER = 3

Coach D. Lewis - 7th Grade Lady Select WHITE = 3

Coaches Keown and Elston - 6th Grade BLACK 2022 = 3
Coach Baskerville 3d Grade SYNERGY Select = 3

Coach Mandeldove - 4th Grade Lady BLACK Diamond Premiere = 2

Coach O. Ferrell - 11th Grade RED Elite = 2

Coach Fann - 5th Grade BRONCOS = 2

Coach Woods- 8th Grade COLLEGE Bound = 2

Coach Krantz - 4th Grade Roswell Bombers = 2

Coach Woods - 6th Grade COLLEGE Bound = 1

Coach Mandeldove - 4th Grade BLACK Diamond Classic = 1

Coach Ricker - 11th Grade CLASSIC = 1

Coach Hill - 11th Grade SILVER = 1

Coach Lawson - 7th Grade SCHOLARS = 1

Coach Frazier - 8th Grade COLLEGE Bound = 1
Coach Burton -10th Grade RED = 1

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Notes from Coaches this weekend.

Little Eddie Cooke of the Mighty Sons of Thunder hit a 3 at the buzzer!!

Won Championship 66 - 65.

(Coach Cooke)

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Coach Z, we got it Done.

(Coach Elston)

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Coach, Lady Select RED 8th Grade won their 8th championship this weekend. We played in the tournament to support the 7th grade WHITE team. The ladies played up in the 10th grade and came across some stiff competition even going into overtime in one game but the end we went undefeated and won the championship.

(Coach McCrae)

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Synergy/Southside Select does it again! Runner-up Mothers Day Tournament Halftime Sports. Love you coach! Get better so you can see your puppies getting better! LOL.

(Coach Jackson)

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Coach Burton team went 4 - 0 and won the championship.

(Coach Sanders)

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 The Mighty 12u SYNERGY Select with Head Coach Proctor

We lost 2 - 3 out the 3 games, second game we lost was at the end by 2.Shot went in then out. The game we won was 60 -12. We lost the first game by 4. 

But we are improving.

(Coach Proctor)

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Another great weekend is approaching. 

We have the following teams playing in Bob Gibbons.

There are 650 teams playing in Bob Gibbons.

We will be there to represent.

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In two weeks we will host our joint tournament with Big Shots. 

We have 11 Select teams participating.

1. Coach Krantz and his 10u Roswell Bombers

2. Coach Woods and his 12u COLLEGE Bound

3. Coach Frazier and his 14u SILVER

4. Coach Woods and his 14u COLLEGE Bound

5. Coach Wallace and his 15u COLLEGE Bound

6. Coach Morris and his 16u BLACK 2018 West

7. Coach Morris and his 16u BLACK 2018 East

8. Coach Burton and his 16u RED

9. Coach Odell and his 17u RED Elite

10. Coach Ricker and his 17u CLASSIC.

11. Coach Hall and his 15u PRIME

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I close by talking about our goal again.

This is the goal from our mission.

The primary goal is to successfully prepare young boys and girls, both academically and athletically, for the opportunity to pursue a degree of higher education at the college level.

Just Go Select!!!

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