Brevard County Florida’s Youth Basketball heritage walks a little prouder and louder today with this announcement. Brevard Elite’s 6th Grade Boys team Coached by Richard Stewart placed 9th in the AAU Boys National Championships. Thus, finish the season ranked 9th in the Nation in AAU & 3rd in YBOA.

For those of you who are within our competitive basketball community, you know exactly just how hard these players, coaches and parents worked to achieve such a great accomplishment. Many tournaments, many qualifiers, many nights practicing and the many nights in hotels, all end at this place for all the marbles. From the time you walk into the massive structure in Hampton Virginia known as the the Boo Williams Complex, you can smell the history of great players who are now among the best college and professional athletes.

68 State Championship Teams and Super Regional Championship Winners walked thru those doors, the best of the best, the festivities begin starting off with a parade of teams to a massive crowd just like the opening Olympics, and then the next morning its tip-off. You play every game that entire week to the very end, against the best in hopes of playing on Sunday in the Championship rounds. Many come, many go home before then and the few left share the top Sweet 16 spots and bring home the “hardware” (trophies, to the newbees). That is just what this Brevard Elite 6th Boys team did, not only did they play to the end…they finished in the Top 10 in the NATION.

The 6th Grade National Team is…John Stewart, Quinton Crawford, Colin Brown, Tyler Forde, Giovanni Hernandez, Kai Libord, and Jonathan Walker.

Additional players who played with the team this season, made huge contributions but unfortunately weren’t able make the trip to Nationals are Keondre Biggs and Bryan Sanders.

Knowing you played the absolute best and that you played your best, that day, is all you can ask of a team. This team lost to the Team who won the entire tournament. That is what playing “Elite” basketbvall is all about.

So regardless if you are a competitive player on another team, someone new who’s been wanting to play basketball who is inspired by this, a middle school coach seeking players, an aquaintence who may know these boys or just a person from Brevard County who’s proud to be from Brevard….show these guys some love, a handshake, pat on the back, and some respect. They definitely earned it!

Their contribution compounded with our other two teams this year has put Brevard County on the recruiter/scouting map in 1 year as a Organization. I have received over 10 calls from scouting groups, overseas FIBA represenatives wanting to schedule us next summer to play in Europe, other popular orgnizations wanting to partner with us…. and while they did this for them, they also did this for you…and especially those up-in-coming Brevard players who will now have the opportunity to be seen in the future for opportunities to go to college someday. The one’s who are reading about basketball here for the first time!

Brevard Elite Basketball is their Dream = Determination, Respect, Effort, Accomplish, Motivation. The highest amount and most sincerest of “Congratulations” goes out to this Team for their complishments from The Brevard Elite Basketball Organization. As the Director, I and the other players, coaches, and parents “Thank You” and respect everything you did for this organization. Good Luck in the upcoming middle school season and can’t wait to get rolling next year! Go Elite!