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Matrix Fall Clinics Announced for Grades 4-8
Tryout Information Matrix Fall/Winter Teams
Fall Clinics for Grades 4-8
As part of the ongoing Matrix "Next Level" Training Series, we are offering the following clinics, training sessions and team camps for players in Grades 4-8 in September:
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Matrix Fall Team Camp -- Matrix FTC
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Matrix Advanced Training Sessions -- Matrix ATS
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8th Annual Matrix Pre-Tryouts Clinics
All three offerings are open to current Matrix players and players interested in joining the Matrix or learning more about the Matrix.
Click here for a quick overview of the three offerings, with links to detailed information about each of the offerings.
Click here to register now for any of the offerings.
Tryouts for Matrix Fall/Winter Teams
3rd-4th Grade team tryouts. See the article below with information about the tryouts for our Fall/Winter Matrix 3rd-4th grade team or click here for detailed information. Please note: a third tryout date has been added on Saturday, September 11.
5th Grade-8th Grade Black teams. The Matrix will be fielding a number teams to compete in a “Lite” Fall/Winter schedule this year and Matrix FTC is an excellent opportunity for players to be seen by the coaches of these teams.
Most Black (Division 1) team coaches will be looking to add players for Fall/Winter league as we carry expanded rosters for fall/winter due to potential conflicts and the “lite” nature of the fall/winter team. The Black team coaches will be closely watching the players at Matrix FTC for possible candidates to add to their teams.
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For the upcoming 2011 AAU season, including Fall 2010, AAU Girls’ Basketball has changed its rules AGAIN for age determination. The good news, however, is that the changes should have virtually no impact on our team formation.
For 2011, AAU is going to a pure grade-based approach, including that the official AAU division are now by grade, not age. This means no more “10-Under” teams as former 10U teams are now 5th Grade teams.
The Matrix will start to identify teams by the graduation year of the players in that grade. For example, this year's 7th Grade teams will be know as 2016 Black, 2016 Green and 2016 White.
Click here for details.
 
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Marcus McKinney Joins Matrix
Marcus McKinney, an Arlington native with high school and AAU coaching experience in Virginia and Maryland, has signed on to join the Board of Directors for Matrix Basketball. As part of his new role, McKinney will be responsible for developing all Matrix high school-aged AAU teams, and will be a head coach for the club.
Dave McRae To Coach 11U Black Team
Long-time AAU, County/Travel and high school coach Dave McRae has also joined the Matrix coaching staff.
Click here for more information about the additions of Marcus McKinney and Dave McRae to the Matrix. The additional information includes why they decided to join the Matrix and links to their respective coaching background pages.
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Building on a successful, bronze-medal winning 2010 spring season for its 8U/3rd Grade team, Matrix Basketball will be holding open tryouts on September 9-10-11* to form a 3rd-4th Grade team and player pool to train together regularly and play games periodically over the fall/winter.
Any interested players heading into 4th Grade or younger in 2010-2011 are eligible to try out. Players should be serious about basketball, and dedicated to improving their basketball skills.
Click here for details about the tryouts and how to register online for the tryouts.
* Please note: a third tryout date has been added for Sep. 11
| | | | | | | | posted 08/07/2010
 The Matrix 10U Green team overcame an unbelievably tough pool play schedule and bracket round draw to take home third place in the Consolation Bracket at the AAU 10-Under Division II Nationals in at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida on August 5, 2010.
Talk about a tough schedule: at the end of the day, the 10U Green team lost to the 2nd place, 3rd place and 7th place team in the D-II Championship Bracket and then in the semi-finals of the Consolation Bracket, after leading most of the game, they fell by just four points to the ultimate winner of the Consolation bracket. No gimmies for this group!!!
So while finishing third in the Classic Bracket is a very solid achievement, it doesn’t begin to tell the whole story on the great work by the 10U Green team at Nationals.
Click here to read an excellent write-up by Coach Buckley about the character showed by the team during a great week of hoops by the 10U Green team.
| | | | | | | | posted 08/04/2010 If you would like to receive e-mails about Matrix events such as tryouts, clinics, team offerings, and other girls’ basketball events for Matrix players and prospective players, please send an e-mail to
and include the following information in the e-mail:
• Subject: Matrix Mailing List
• Player name, school and grade for 2010-2011 school year
• Parent name, phone number and e-mail address
• Current team name
If you have registered or plan to register for a Matrix clinic or other event in our online registration system, you will automatically be added to our mailing list.
| | | | posted 03/17/2010 The Matrix website has made some recent updates to its website that we think will make the website much more useful and interesting to our players, coaches, families and fans. These website upgrades include upgrades to:
- Team Websites
- Rosters
- Matrix Tourney Schedules
- Gym Locations
- Matrix Twitter Page
- Matrix Facebook Page
Click here to see the details of the enhancements listed above.
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Fall Training Information
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Matrix Fall Clinic Information Available for Grades 4-8; Watch For High School Information
Once again, the Matrix is offering fall training opportunities for its players and other interested players.
The Fall 2010 information is now available for players in grades 4-8.
Training options for our high school players should be available soon. Check back for more information! |
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2010 11U White Team
Silver Medalists
2010 Potomac Valley 11-Under D-II Districts
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Tue, Sep 7, 2010
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2010 Matrix AAU
Teams and Coaches
** Click on name for coach's background. 2nd name listed is the team's lead assistant coach.
*** To visit a team's website click on the team name from the list above.
Black = Division 1 team; Green/White = Division 2 team
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Help Matrix Teams: Please Donate
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Help The Matrix Raise Funds for Nationals or Scholarships With Tax-Exempt Donation
The cost for a player participating in AAU can be quite expesive, as can the cost of a team of attending AAU Nationals or other summer tournaments.
The Matrix offers scholarships to players on a need basis as our policy is that no player should not play for financial reasons.
In addition, we want to assist our teams in their fundraising efforts to attend Nationals and other suche events.
As such, we have set up an online donation page for you to make a tax deductible donation for scholarships or to a Matrix team of your choosing.
Click here to visit the Matrix donation page for more information and to make a donation. Thank you!!!! |
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Matrix Serves as PV Webmaster
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Matrix Serves as
Potomac Valley Girls'
Basketball Webmaster
In addition to being a member of the Potomac Valley AAU Girls' Basketball Executive Committee, the Matrix is also the webmaster for the PV Girls' Basketball website. As such, our club manages the posting of all the schedules, scores and standings for the District Qualifying Tournaments.
Click here to visit the website created and operated by the Matrix. |
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The Matrix Basketball website is maintained by the webmaster. Click here to contact the webmaster with questions or comments about the website.
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Matrix Serves as FCYBL Webmaster
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Matrix Volunteers to be FCYBL Webmaster
As noted many times, the Matrix is a big supporter of the Fairfax County Youth Basketball League ("FCYBL") for coaches and players.
As the 2009-2010 FCYBL season began, they had no scores and standings website. Well, with our experience in this area, the Matrix stepped up, developed a website for the FCYBL, and is serving as webmaster for the 2009-2010 season.
Click here to visit the new FCYBL website created and operated by the Matrix. |
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