Who we are
Fourteen seasons in
Pocket City Basketball started in 2013 with one idea: give area players somewhere to compete outside of their school season. That first Fall X-League put 150 players on the floor. Fourteen seasons later, more than 7,000 registrations have come through our programs.
What we do now comes down to three things.
Leagues
Real seasons. Set schedules, assigned officials, standings that matter and rosters built by evaluation rather than by who signed up first.
The Boys Fall X-League is our flagship and the program PCB was built on. Junior Fundamentals brings our youngest players into the game each fall, at a pace and a format built for them. Smaller Ballers runs in the spring.
Camps
Short, focused, and built around a specific window in a player's year.
The Summer of Separation Camp in June is about the work that separates players over the offseason. Back 2 School in August gets players ready for tryouts. The Girls Summer Hoops Academy runs in May, and The Black Friday Special puts players in the gym on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving.
Training
PCB SkillLab is skill work you book by the hour, not by the season, and it runs all twelve months. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday nights at the Boys & Girls Club, grades K through 12, group or individual.
Families buy credits once and book the hours that fit the week, including the weeks a player is deep in their school season. Every session is logged to the player's training history, so the work is visible over a year instead of disappearing into a text thread.
The year at PCB
Something open in every season
Our leagues and camps fill the stretches when school ball is not in session. Training runs straight through.
| Fall | Junior Fundamentals, Boys Fall X-League, The Black Friday Special |
|---|---|
| Winter | Training only — school competition season |
| Spring | Smaller Ballers |
| Summer | Girls Summer Hoops Academy, Summer of Separation Camp, Back 2 School Camp |
| All year | PCB SkillLab training |
Winter is deliberately light. Players belong to their school teams from November through the end of the tournament, so we stay out of the way and keep the gym open for individual and small-group work.
Where the work leads
The record behind the programs
For years PCB ran grassroots travel teams that put regional players in front of college coaches in Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cincinnati and Indianapolis. That exposure is why a lot of players from this area got looked at when they otherwise would not have been. The same principle drives what we run today: quality teaching, mixed with preparation for quality competition.
43 grassroots alumni and 31 Fall X-League alumni went on to play college basketball. Of the original group of 17-year-olds, all pursued college and 8 played collegiately.
The PCB pathway
One record, built over years
Every player who registers gets a profile that follows them. Games, training sessions, development and, for high school players, recruiting tools. One record, built over years rather than restarted every season.
Staff
Who runs it
Certification
Ready to get in the gym?
See what is open right now, or book an hour of training this week.