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Congratulations to the following senior students athletes on their end of season WIBCA awards: WIBCA “Mr. Basketball”-Tanner Toolson, Union High School PLAYERS OF THE YEAR (Respective classifications) 4A-Jabe Mullins, Mt. Si High School 3A-Tari Eason, Garfield High School 2A-Wyatt Walker, Burlington Edison High School 1A-Hunter Ecklund, La Center High School 2B-A.J. Floyd, Davenport High School 1B-Caleb Revey, Lummi High School CONGRATULATIONS

WIBCA Hall of Fame Event Cancelled Due to the current situation surrounding the COVID-19 and uncertainty of future state policies; while also wanting to ensure a safe and positive environment for a WIBCA-related event, we are cancelling the 2020 WIBCA Hall of Fame inductions scheduled for July 23rd at the Nile golf and Country Club in Mountlake Terrace. We are very disappointed to have to make this decision but we have informed our three inductees and look forward to celebrating their achievements and this honor with them, their families, and friends in 2020. We will have specific date, time and [...]

Thanks to those that attended our recent fall clinic hosted by the Washington Interscholastic Basketball Coaches Association. This years clinic provided a variety of excellent speakers from the high school, community college, NAIA and D1 collegiate levels. Headline speakers were Coach Kyle Smith of Washington State University mens team and Shantay Legans from the Eastern Washington mens program. WIBCA, with the support of Shoot-A-Way, was again able to give away a brand new Shooting "Gun" to one lucky attendee. Thanks also to our sponsors in attendance: Cloud 9 Sports, Shoot-A-Way, Snap, and Hudl. We would like to thank the Yakima [...]

Coach, As one season ends, and another is about to begin… Continue thinking about your players and how to build a culture where every athlete on the team contributes and grows. They have many people in their life but none whose relationship with them is continually focused on making them a better player and person. Win or lose, the opportunities that you provide these young people will stay with them forever while helping to shape them for the rest of their lives. Our desire is that this newsletter will stimulate your thinking and help prepare you and your teams on and [...]

BnB summer camp for 2020 will take place in June. https://www.bnbcamps.com/ c622a932c3de71996443ab7c0366fa86

On July 25, the 45th WIBCA Hall of Fame Banquet was held at the Wenatchee Convention Center inducting two legendary North Central Washington Head Coaches, Tim Taylor (Brewster) and Mike Carlquist (Okanagon).   The 80 people in attendance were treated to a sumptuous buffet, snappy one-liners from emcee Pat Fitterer, and inspirational speeches from the inductees.  Additionally, Bruce Siebol (Sunnyside) was presented with the "Patrick Fitterer Positive Coaching Award" and Joe Harris (Brooklyn Nets) was awarded the "Ed Pepple Service Award" for his contributions to the improvement of basketball in Washington. If you are a WIBCA member interested in nominating a head or [...]

2019 NHSBCA National Convention Well, we wrapped up our NHSBCA National Convention in Seattle yesterday. All went great. 50 attendees from across the US for three days of positive and productive talk about high school basketball and the betterment of our game. Needless to say the past couple weeks have been busy. Thank you to everyone that attended and helped make this possible.

The 2019 Washington North West Shootout team demonstrated great hustle, desire and unselfish play in beating Oregon 120-102, in the 25th annual game. The team recorded 25 assists and dominated the glass 53-39 in breaking a five game losing streak. Led by game MVP Jaden McDaniel’s 25 pts and 10 rebounds, all players played well and contributed in a big way. The balanced scoring of Cole Bajema 19, Anton Watson 18, Mica Pollard 12, Brock Ravet 12, and Shaw Anderson with 15, was too much for the Oregon squad to handle. Hunter Campau led the team with 5 assists, while Shaw [...]