RYS Basketball

PRESS RELEASE

Racine Youth Sports is pleased to announce that is has partnered up with Gus Macker to host a 3-on-3 basketball tournament in Racine on August 21-22, 2010.  The tournament is open to boys and girls and men and women of all ages and skill levels.  The teams consist of 4 players.  The entry fee is $116.00 per team.  All teams are guaranteed 3 games and t-shirts.  Games will be played on the lakefront behind Gateway Technical College and on Monument Square in downtown Racine.

The weekend event will include a slam dunk contest, free throw shooting contest, around the world contest and a chapel service on Sunday morning.  Teams can now register on-line at www.macker.com  For questions or to volunteer for this event, please call Steve Botzau at (262) 554-6200 or Joe Mooney at (262) 619-1174.  Get registered early!  

GUS MACKER TOURNEY is coming this summer !  Check it out!

Get your team together and sign up early by going to the Gus Macker Website above now.

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"One Hundred years from now, it won't matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in my bank account, nor what my clothes looked like.  But the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child."

Top 10 Things YOUR Kids Say They Don't Want:

 1. Don't yell out instructions.              2. Don't put down the officials.

 3. Don't yell at me in public.               4. Don't yell at the coach.

 5. Don't put down my teammates.       6. Don't put down the other team.

 7. Don't lose your cool.                      8. Don't lecture me about mistakes after the game.

 9. Don't forget to laugh and have fun. 10. Don't forget that it's just a game!

* Excerpt from Gatorade's Playbook for Kids by printed from Darrell J. Burnett, PH.D