Our intramural basketball program provides a fun and competitive opportunity for players from ages 5 to 14 to play basketball where all the practices and games are here in the City of Bowie. We offer Littles (5-6 years old), Freshman (7-8 years old), Sophomore (9-10 years old), Junior (11-12 years old) and Senior (13-14 years old) leagues. When you register your player, the player’s date of birth will automatically place the player into the correct division.
Winter Intramural Basketball is a weekend only program.
Registration Information:
Intramural Registration Fee – $150
Registration Open From October 1 through December 1st
Late registration Fee – $175
Late Registration from December 1st to December 15th.
Anyone who registers after December 15st will be waitlisted and only added if space is available.
To register, log on to your account at www.bbgc.com.
Important note – We will NOT be accepting registration at the evaluation or meet and greet sessions. In order to participate in Intramural basketball, player’s registration must be complete and paid by the December 1st closing date.
Program Description:
Littles (ages 5 and 6) is a coed program for boys and girls. Littles basketball is instructional, not competitive; therefore, no evaluation sessions are held. They will go to a meet and greet and jersey pick up. Teams are formed randomly, and players will be contacted in early January. Practices and games will be held on Saturday and Sunday mornings. The first session of the season will be practice only and then games will be played for the remainder of the season. The season starts in January and concludes the 2nd weekend of February.
Intramural (In House) Basketball (ages 7-14) emphasizes skill development, with competition, and equal participation (each player plays at least ½ per game). Games and practices held in Bowie. Special playing rules apply at each age level (see rules posted). The season starts in January and ends the 2nd weekend of February.
Practices and Games – Held on Saturday and Sunday at local Bowie gyms.
Age Eligibility:
Player’s age eligibility is determined by the player’s age before January 1 of the current school year. Intramural players may apply to “play up” one age level (based on player’s ability, AND space availability in that age group, as determined by the commissioner and the age group coordinator), but may NOT “play down” an age level unless the player demonstrates that special needs exist, please contact [email protected] to request special placement consideration in advance of placement sessions. Please see below for other criteria to “play up”.
Playing up in Intramural:
The first priority for our Intramural program is to furnish fair and balanced competition in our leagues, and to run leagues that are both fun and physically challenging for all the kids involved. Therefore, as in all athletics, our leagues are built around players’ ages, and then we attempt to create teams within the leagues to balance the abilities of the participants of each league. Therefore, when weighing a request from a participant to “play up” the following factors will be reviewed:
1. Space available in the league after all registrations received-we will NOT have more than 10 players per team and due to space constraints, we cannot create additional, smaller teams simply to honor placement requests.
2. Ability level-all players applying to “play up” should attend an evaluation session for the older age group as well as one for their actual age group. The Age Group Coordinator in conjunction with the Intramural Commissioner will determine if the player’s ability level is on a level which is comparable to the mean level of the older group. Players who are determined to have insufficient physical maturity/skill/athleticism to compete with the players of mean ability level within the older group shall not be permitted to play above their age and/or grade level.
3. Comparative ability levels of those wishing to “play up” – if there are more players wishing to “play up” than spaces available, the Age Group Coordinator in conjunction with the Intramural Commissioner will utilize evaluation ratings to determine which children will be placed in the older league, based on ability.
4. Age/grade level shall be the final determinant if ability levels are judged to be sufficient and comparable – i.e., the older of two players of comparable ability shall be shown preference.
5. All decisions shall be made by the age group Coordinator in conjunction with the Intramural Basketball Commissioner.
Procedures for Evaluations:
Littles – No tryouts-see program description above.
Intramural – In order to provide balanced competition in the intramural leagues, evaluations will be held, for players age 7-14, in January for the purpose of determining team makeup. All players registered are requested to attend the evaluation session. We will attempt (but not guarantee) to honor placement requests. However, team parity and balanced competition is the main priority in placements. Placement requests made by those who attend a placement session are given first priority. NOTE–If you attend County tryouts but are not selected for a County team, PLEASE attend an Intramural evaluation session.
Age Eligibility
Age groups are based on the age of the player on January 1st.