Boston Showstoppers Basketball
The 2017 Boston Showstoppers girls basketball club team program is comprised of 8 teams, 5th grade - 12th grades serving about 125-150 girls, ages 7-18, throughout the course of our program-calendar year. Our club team programming is offered during the fall (September-November), as well as the spring and summer (March-July).
In addition to our club/travel league programs we offer winter league (Lower League Classic ~ Blue and Yellow Games) and summer league (Boston Neighborhood Basketball League) programming offerings during the year as well as a number of skill development & training clinics and camp opportunities. Our club teams are headed by 14 volunteer coaches all of whom hold regular full-time jobs and are products of the same communities as the young people that are the heart and soul of our program.
The Boston Showstoppers currently offer four core programs based on academic & athletic excellence, community service and health & wellness. The Boston Showstoppers Basketball program model is structured into two divisions with specific goals based on our student-athletes respective age and skill levels.
Upper League Division (High School)
- Offer year-long continual skill development and training platforms
- Introduce student-athletes to the steps they need to be successful in the college application process in general, as well as a potential student-athlete
- Provide student-athletes with college recruitment and showcase opportunities by competing in NCAA sanctioned tournaments on the regional and national level
- Expose student-athletes to colleges and universities as well as historic and cultural centers across the nation.
- Provide resources to build upon hard and soft skills needed to navigate internship and career-readiness opportunities.
Lower League Division (Elementary/Middle School)
- Offer year-long continual skill development and training platforms
- Provide student-athletes in the 4th-8th grade with the opportunity to participate in developmental leagues to cultivate the skills they need to compete in local and national tournaments
- All student-athletes will compete in local, regional & national tournaments
- Introduce student-athletes to the hard and soft skills they need to be successful in middle school/high school
Accomplishments & Achievements
In just a decade of service and existence we have experienced tremendous academic and athletic achievement as a program and we are proud to highlight some of those accolades and many of our organizational and programmatic accomplishments.
- 3 Amateur Athletic Union National Championships
- 8 Massachusetts State Championships
- 14 Boston Neighborhood
- Basketball League (BNBL) Championships.
- 2016 U17 Under Amour National Champions
- 2016 U17 Gym Rats Champions
- 2016 & 2017 student-athlete ASGR All-Star Team Selections
- 2016 & 2017 Massachusetts McDonald All-American Nominations
- 5 graduating classes; yielding 46 Alumnae, with a 100% high school graduation & matriculation to college rate.
- 29 of the 46 graduates are playing DI, DII, DIII college & JUCCO basketball.
- 2016 high school graduates cumulative GPA of 3.43
- 2017 high school graduates cumulative GPA of 3.65
- 2 student-athletes named 2017 MIAA High School Women In Sports Honorees
- 12 student-athlete Boston Globe & Boston Herald All-Scholastics Team Awardees
- Current student-athletes are being recruited by NCAA schools from the SEC, ACC, IVY, A-10, AAC, MAC, CAA, & Patriot League.