One of the most cited reasons for a player to come to us here at the IMG Basketball Academy is to develop their perimeter skills. A guy is used to competing in the post, but needs to really become more skilled and creative both off the dribble and more consistent shooting the rock. A great [...]
Every year, a number of players that ahve trained at the IMG Basketball Academy go on to compete at the college level. Some of them play for teams at the biggest and brightest stage in collegiate hoops: the NCAA Tournament. This year, we are lucky to have a few alumni playing in the field of [...]
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Champions once more! One of our two high school team entrants in the NCSAA Tournament here in Erie, PA won the championship of the invitational bracket earlier today. It was a well-played game, but IMG led wire-to-wire, taking as much as a 12 point lead 4 separate times. We were able to hold on for [...]
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This has been a valuable trip for all of our players. The Post-Graduate teams played well in their opening day games, but today really kicked it up a notch and both teams recorded Ws over some pretty talented competition. In fact, they both played themselves into a position in the tournament that it looks like [...]
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Well, one day in the books. Each of our teams (we have four teams in this event) were competitive in yesterday’s action, with a number of our seniors and post-graduates getting great looks from the over two dozen college basketball coaches in attendance. Our spotlight game-of-the-day was the afternoon post-graduate game, where our boys battled [...]
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Jeremee Davis, one of our current Post-Graduates at the IMG Basketball Academy, had never seen snow before. Chalk up another life experience acquired through the full-time program here at the Academy. The Post-Graduate teams and our High School boys’ teams are all in Erie, Pennsylvania for the NCSAA Tournament this weekend, and there were enough [...]
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This past summer and fall, Jon Sverrisson spent about three months with us here on campus, training with our post-graduates. A 20-year old resident of Iceland, Sverrisson returned to Iceland in November of 2008. Competing with a team in Iceland, he has produced at a very high level on the court, and really shown tremendous [...]
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Alumni from the IMG Basketball Academy’s full-time program are everywhere in college basketball. From the high-major Division I program to the small DII junior college, Academy alumni succeed. This weekend, two performances stuck out amongst our DI alumni.
Nick Weiermiller, a sophomore guard with Texas Pan American, scored 25 points on 8 of 12 shooting from [...]
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Two alumni of the IMG Basketball Academy recently made news with their achievements on the court at the next level.
Hamilton Nash will finish the season as the second leading rebounder in the nation for Redlands Community College (El Reno, Oklahoma). The 6′7 Nash averaged 13.6 rebounds per game this season for Redlands.
Kelvin “Jay” Higgins was named First-Team [...]