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The GBA.....and now the BBA
It’s coming to a court near you. That’s the intention of Jeff Ferguson, director of the Girls’ Basketball Association and now the Boys Basketball Association, which is planning a major expansion in 2006.

Ferguson began his organization 8 years ago and thus far tournaments have only been held in Ohio for girls, but the BBA will now be doing boys events.

“We started doing events in 1997 without enough teams to even have a full tournament,” Ferguson related, “but we got established in Ohio and by 2000, we had 241 teams in our tournaments. We’ve continued to grow as the number of teams was up to 968 in 2002 and last year in 2005 we had over 1,450 teams and 10,000 girls playing in our events.” 
 Ferguson felt there was a need for a boys association to offer the same tournaments as the girls events which will carry the slogan, “Where the Players Play”
 
“ We have been asked so many times, when are you going to do these events for the boys? A wide range of facilities have been used, from major colleges to high schools.“  We will be hosting over 25 tournaments in Ohio,” Ferguson stated, “with some of the venues being Ohio University (Athens), the University of Akron, Ohio Northern University, Sports Plus, Pickerington High School, and several other colleges and high schools in Ohio. “We’ve also worked with some high schools who have used the tournament as a fund-raiser for their basketball program,” he added.
 
The GBA features five-on-five full court games with girls ages 9-17 and boys in grades 3rd-11th split into in several divisions. All tournaments guarantee each team a minimum of three games. For more information call the basketball office at 740-685-2468 or visit the websites at www.gbabasketball.com for girls, and www.bbahoops.com for the boys.

 

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