Palo Alto National Junior Basketball is a community based non-profit organization having separate boys and girls teams in third through eighth grade and for High School Boys (grades 9-12). We are a winter league and operate under the guidelines and bylaws of National Junior Basketball and the Silicon Valley Section of NJB. We have two different programs to offer:
DIVISION
Our Division program is expected to have three Divisions for separate girls and boys leagues, Division 1 (7th/8th grade), Division 2 (5th/6th grade) and Division 3 (3rd/4th grade). ALL players must be at evaluations to be drafted on balanced teams. To achieve this objective, requests are not considered to play with friends or for car pooling, but only the head coaches child is guaranteed to be on a given team. Each player in the division program plays at least two full quarters per game. Division play is five eight minute running clock quarters. Each team plays ten regular season games plus playoffs from December through March. WARNING- Some chapters will be starting Sunday games at 9:30am due to gym availability. We also have a Boys High School program for grades 9-12.
ALL-NET
We have All-Net (Select) teams for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade boys and for 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade girls. Players will be selected through tryouts in early October. The All-Net program is for players who have a highly developed skill level and will be playing other All-Net teams in four seven minute stop clock quarters. All-Net teams play a 14 game regular season plus playoffs. Players who do not make All-Net play in the Division Program, which has postseason playoffs and All-Star teams. All-Net players should register under division but identify that they plan to try-out for All-Net.
GENERAL INFORMATION
All NJB games are played on a regulation floor with scoreboard and wear a full uniform. Referees are certified and many officiate at the high school level. Palo Alto is a chapter within the National Junior Basketball League, which has more than 50,000 basketball players nationwide. National Tournaments for All-Net and for Division All-Stars are held at the end of each season in the Los Angeles area.
Palo Alto will host players from Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Los Altos Hills, and Portola Valley. We are part of the Silicon Valley Section, which has thirteen chapters: Almaden, Berryessa/Milpitas, Coyote Creek, San Jose East (Evergreen), Gilroy, Hollister, Los Gatos, Foothill, Palo Alto, Redwood City, Saratoga, West San Jose, and Willow Glen. Our Sectional Director is Mel Robertson. The NJB program was started in Southern California by Dennis Murphy in 1985.
2010-2011 Palo Alto NJB Board of Directors:
Chapter Director: Ryo Koyama
President: Randy Schlemmer
Vice-President: Brian Bicknell
Treasurer: Sean McGraw
D1 Boys Player Agent: Beau Brown
D2 Boys Player Agent: Randy Schlemmer
D3 Boys Player Agent: Open
Girls Player Agent: Jeff Stuart
All-Net Coordinator Girls: Bill Schmarzo
All-Net Coordinator Boys: Beau Brown
Registration: Tom Dubois
Publicity/Marketing/Promotions: Open
Scorekeeper Coordinator: Linda Allen
Uniform Coordinator: Open
Picture Day Coordinator: Chi Johnson
Gym Coordinator: Jim Cowie
