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2025 4th-11th Grade Additional Tournament Information.

2025 4th-11th Grade Additional Tournament Information

The “Additional Tournament Team” is an entirely separate team from your regular season team.

Note:  If your daughter is or isn’t in Stealers For Life, she will play on the team that she makes following 2025 tryouts.    The team she makes will play a regular schedule as in years past.  That schedule will be posted in mid-March once all of the teams are selected.

Note: For those in the TTG – 2024 Program, the additional tournament schedule will not conflict with the TTG-2024 Tournament Schedule (The TTG-2024 tournament schedule will be posted in August).

This page is for those interested in playing in additional tournaments in 2025.

Additional tournaments will not conflict with your daughter’s regular team tournament schedule.

There will be an additional tournament team or teams for our 4th-7th grade participants and for our 8th-11th grade participants.

Purposes of the 2025 additional tournament teams:

  • To help parents best prepare for the 2025 season so they know almost a year in advance the dates and sites where the tournaments will be played.
  • To better prepare our players for the upcoming competition that are played at the national level.
  • To have stronger team chemistry heading into these tournaments.

History of additional tournaments:

  • The Stealers have fielded additional tournament teams since 2003 providing our players opportunities to play in extra tournaments throughout the year.
  • Some players and parents wanted some extra exposure in front of college coaches and / or to play in a national tournament setting so our program provided those opportunities.
  • The team would practice once, maybe twice, before playing in these events. 
  • The tournaments were sometimes held around holidays or during spring or summer breaks which would cause folks to miss. 
  • The tournaments used to be offered individually, basically sign up and play.

Coach R’s thoughts with the 2025 Additional Tournament Team Plan:

  • For the past several years it has been harder to field a full team at the regional level and even sometimes at the national level for national tournaments.
  • Having a team of 8-10 players at the younger grade groups (Rising Stars, Myrtle Beach) would help with substitutions during games.  Playing with 6-7 players may work for a game or two, but over the course of 3-4 games it gets tougher along with the hope that no one gets injured.  
  • Having a set team, with the potential of adding 1-2 players at a later date, would allow the teams to practice together longer which in turn should help the overall competitive level at these events.
  • Preparing players for future national team tournaments through additional tournament experiences can only make the players, and parents, more comfortable as both will know what to expect ahead of time.

4th-7th Grade Additional Tournament Schedule – Please note dates and sites are subject to change. These are the 2025 dates and sites sent to me from the tournament directors.

  • June 21 Warmup Event in the Triad
  • .June 26-29 in Myrtle Beach (Thursday – Sunday)
  •  July 8-10 or 9-11 Rising Stars Tournament in Louisville, Kentucky. There is a 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th grade division for the Rising Stars Tournament.

8th-12th Grade Additional Tournament Schedule – Please note dates and sites are subject to change. These are the 2025 dates and sites sent to me from the tournament directors.

  • July 5-6 Deep South Classic in Raleigh. – This tournament is for DII / DIII / NAIA / JUCO College Coaches to attend.
  • July 13-15 in Louisville for Run 4 Roses Championship.  –  This is a window for Division I College Coaches to attend.
  • July 19-21 in TBA (potentially Lakepoint, Georgia). – This is a window for Division I College Coaches to attend.

2025 NCAA Calendar For College Coaches To Attend:

  • April 25ā€“27, 2025:  Our regular season national teams will play in Raleigh during these dates. No conflict with additional tournament team tournaments.
  • May 16ā€“18, 2025: Our regular season national teams will play in Greensboro during these dates. No conflict with additional tournament team tournaments.
  • July 11-14, 2025: Our regular season national teams will play in the Run 4 Roses Classic July 10-12. No conflict with additional tournament team tournaments.
  • July 18ā€“21, 2025 : Our regular season national teams will play in Lakepoint (tentative site) July 17-18. No conflict with additional tournament team tournaments.

Cost for the additional tournaments:

  • 4th-7th Grades: $200.00 for the three tournaments before August 1, 2024.  After August 1st the cost is $250.00. ($225.00 through September 1, 2025)
  • 8th-12th Grades: $200.00 for the three tournaments before August 1, 2024.  After August 1st the cost is $250.00.($225.00 through September 1, 2025)

Roster Makeup:

  • The goal is to have a minimum of eight (8) and no more than ten (10) players on a team.

Participant Information:

  • For those in the 4th-7th grades choosing to be play in the additional tournament program, there will be a requirement to register with the NTBA: LINK.
  • For those in the 4th-7th grades, there will also be information on the registration form below that is required by the Rising Stars Tournament.
  • For those in the 8th-11th grades, the Deep South Classic will require information in the form below for DII / DIII / NAIA / JUCO College Coaches.
  • For those in the 8th-12th grades, the Run 4 Roses and second July tournament participants will have to register with the NCAA / BBCS System in the spring of 2025 here: LINK.

Potential Questions:

  • Why is the tournament schedule posted so early, almost a year in advance?  Answer:  Families that attended Louisville know that booking rooms for any of the three events in July is difficult. Rooms get booked quickly as this is not just a national, but a global, event.  Also, these tournaments offer early bird discounts for programs that not only register early but signup multiple teams for their events, so the plan is to register in August of 2024.   The windows are small for NCAA college coaches to attend events (see 2025 NCAA calendar above) so the tournament directors offer discounts to lock in teams / programs as far in advance as possible.     The earlier we register, the better.
  • When will the full roster be set? Answer:  Hopefully in the fall of 2024, but definitely, assuming there are enough registrants, in the spring of 2025.
  • Could the roster change after setting it?  Answer: Yes, illnesses and injuries unfortunately happen as do family emergencies, sometimes players quit and sometimes there unforeseen circumstances.
  • When will practices start?  Answer:  In May 2025. 
  • What if I paid for an additional tournament in 2024 and we didn’t attend (Myrtle Beach, Louisville, etc..); can we apply that fee to the 2025 additional tournament team or get a refund. Answer: No. Those fees were paid to the tournament registration for each team that attended in 2024.
  • What if I / we as a family can only attend one or two of the scheduled tournaments, do we pay for the full allotment of tournaments?  Answer:   You can check with Coach R on availability in early May 2025 if you plan on just attending one or two of the tournaments.  The goal with this new program is to give our teams a better chance to develop chemistry by practicing and playing together a little longer versus just signing up for an extra tournament here or there, registering that team for an event and playing without too much time with each other.   
  • Don’t most all of our teams run the same plays?  Answer: Yes they do which allows a varying amount of success (i.e. Myrtle Beach, Deep South teams), but practicing together and playing together a little longer makes the play on the court stronger.
  • What if I sign up for the additional tournaments and then my daughter cannot attend, can I get a refund?   Answer:  You will have to request a refund before April 30, 2025.
  • Will the dates and times be updated if there are changes and will an email be sent to those who signed up?   Answer: Yes.
  • Is there a chance the tournament dates and times could be changed?  Answer: Yes, but the dates and times shouldn’t be too far off from what has been posted so far.
  • Do the Stealers book hotel rooms or require their program members to stay in a particular hotel?  Answer: The Stealers don’t, but most of the tournaments are a stay to play. When those stay to play hotels are released, the Stealers will send those out to those signed up for the additional tournaments.

FYI’: – Note many of the websites have not updated their 2025 dates yet.

Registrations (Using 2024-25 School Grades):

4th-7th Grades:

  1. Lily Bair
  2. Cali Brister
  3. Makayla Brooks
  4. Khloe Cox
  5. Mikenzie Davis
  6. Avery Jones
  7. Ellie Kesler
  8. Lennon Marston
  9. Brylea McKinney
  10. Caroline Moore (RS)
  11. Charli Robinson
  12. Nora Rose
  13. Carly Shamblen
  14. Rachel So

8th-12th Grades:

  1. Bailey Aderhold
  2. Aysia Brabham
  3. Madison Daugherty
  4. Kalin Favreau
  5. Cora Hadley
  6. Emma Hadley
  7. Sofia Jones
  8. Jenna Moore
  9. Olivia Smith
  10. Maddie Taylor

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