GENERAL INFORMATION

CYO Athletics offers a grade school basketball ball program for boys in grades 4 through 8.  (See CYO Player Eligibility Rules for guidelines).  Teams are formed from catholic parishes, schools or educational institutions in the Central,  Eastern, and Western areas of the Diocese of Cleveland.  

Boys grade school basketball games are played at various gyms throughout the CYO service area.  League formation is based upon geography and CYO competition rules (See Bylaw 2-8 for details).  Schedules are prepared by the CYO office and mailed to the head coaches.  The Diocesan Varsity  Boys Championship games are played at the end of the season.      

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

DIVISIONS OF PLAY
Varsity                        8^th grade
Junior Varsity               7^th grade
Cadet                          6^th grade
Developmental             5^th grade
Elemental                     4^th grade

 TEAM FORMATION

• See Bylaw 2-8

ENTRY PROCESS

• A team entry form, $250 fee, and eligibility request forms must be received from members by the stated Team Entry Deadline.  This fee MUST accompany your manual team entry. Download  the grade school team entry forms for EAST BOY BASKETBALL, CENTRAL BOY BASKETBALL, and WEST BOY BASKETBALL, LORAIN BOY BASKETBALL.

• Designees, if you enter your parish teams ONLINE in Sports Pilot, be sure to download the team entry confirmation form which MUST accompany your parish payment check.  ONLINE team entry check payments MUST BE PUT IN THE MAIL BY November 9, 2007 so we can mark your teams paid in Sports Pilot.

• Designees and Coaches click here for Team Entry Information Winter Sports Designee and Coaches Letter.  Winter coaches meetings, officials fees, and rules info can be downloaded from the links at bottom of this page.

• Team eligibility rosters with completed pre-participation exam information must be received from members by the stated Eligibility Roster Deadline.  Eligibility Request forms MUST be completed for all out of parish athletes playing on your team and submitted to our office with your team entries.

LOCATIONS

For facility location maps, visit this link http://www.sportsstandings.com/ClevelandCYOAthletics when you open the page, click the MAPS box link (near the top of the page.) Scroll down the list and find the facility you are searching for.

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Diocese of Cleveland

CYO BASKETBALL RULES

The Charter & Bylaws is the governing document for all CYO sports and all member parishes. It should be referred to for statements of philosophy and issues regarding eligibility, eligibility requests, adjoining parish rules, merging parishes to form a team, etc.

CLICK BELOW FOR PDF FILES OF COACHES HANDBOOK, RULES,

AND CHARTER & BYLAWS:

(DOCUMENTS IN PDF FORMAT REQUIRE ADOBE ACROBAT READER.  SEE LEFT BORDER FOR A FREE DOWNLOAD)

WEST WINTER SPORTS COACHES MEETINGS

EAST WINTER SPORTS COACHES MEETINGS

CENTRAL WINTER SPORTS COACHES MEETINGS

LORAIN WINTER SPORTS COACHES MEETINGS

GRADE SCHOOL BASKETBALL RULES

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