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Welcome to the
Airdrie Minor Basketball Association Website


Airdrie Minor Basketball Association is a not-for-profit, community based, volunteer organization that is one of 18 member associations playing in the Calgary city leagues.

Want to know more about AMBA? See our FAQs.

Team of the Week: Midget Girls, Nominated by their coach Dawn Drummond for their hard work and success this 2009/2010 fall/winter/spring seasons.

Congratulations to the Bantam Boys team, winning their spring gold medal game 56-24 against CYDC.

The AMBA age categories are as follows:
Tyke: ages 6 and 7
Mini: ages 8 to 10
Bantam: ages 11 and 12
Midget: ages 13 and 14
Juvenile: ages 15 and 16
Junior: ages 17 to 19

We now have a hotline 403-912-7995. It will have the practices and/or games that are scheduled, including changes in venues or times for that day.

Female Player of the Week: Sarah Abbot, Bantam Girls.

AMBA is considering a tyke program starting in September. This would be one hour a week for about 8 weeks for players 6 - 7 years old. If your child would be interested in participating in such a program, please let us know.

AMBA has partnered with NBC Camps to organize a summer basketball skills camp for 6-12 year old boys and girls during July 19-23rd at the Bert Church High School Gym in Airdrie.

Registration 2010 News:

2010 Fees:
Tyke - TBA
Mini - $175
Bantam - $240
Midget - $240
Juvenile/Junior - $120 (fall season)

Note: Bantam/Midget/Juvy/Jr all need a post dated cheque for uniform deposit.

One Midget Girl and Midget Boy team, plus all Juvenile/Junior divisions play a split season to accommodate high school basketball regulations. If you are planning on playing high school basketball you can come out for the fall season and get your shot back on track.

AMBA Refund Policy:
We do not give refunds after Evaluation Night. Teams have been put together and we have already paid the CMBA for those teams.

Are you looking for some extra spending cash this fall? We need referees for our Mini Program! Stay in Airdrie and help grow our program at the same time.



Past week's Male Player of the Week: Cole Albersworth, Bantam Boys. He placed first in Alberta for the 12-year-old boy division in the Knights of Columbus Free Throw Shootout. Congratulations Cole!

Past week's Female Player of the Week: Repeat winner Kayla Malone!

The 2010 AMBA Scholarship winners are - Mark Philipsen and Kylie Woolf

Enter your opinion of this year's AMBA season Airdrie Minor Basketball Feedback Form

Congratulations to the MG2 team for winning the gold medal in their C2 division.

Congratulations to the BB1 team for winning the Silver Medal at provincials and the BG1 team for winning the Gold Medal at provincials! Read the Airdrie City View article although, the last 2 free throws were by Kayla Malone and the boys team score should read 55-52 (Basketball Alberta web site is incorrect).

Check out the participants in the inaugural Coaches vs. the Board shoot-out.

What happens when you win your first game? The coach gets a haircut!

The 2009/2010 Winter season ended on a winning note for many AMBA teams, with 10 medals: 4 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze. SeeWeekly Boxscores for final results.

The AMBA would like to thank all of our coaches and volunteers that are working so hard this 2009-2010 season. Without your help we wouldn't get anywhere!!!


2010 CMBA Winter Season Final Standings

The AMBA shooting camp and Basketball Challenge on Saturday, January 9, was a great success. Pictures from the both the shooting camp and the BG1 vs. BB2 game are on our photos page

Congratulations to the AMBA Junior Boys team. They won the gold medal for the fall session

For those who attended our Shooting Camp January 9, October 23 or October 24, Dave Love has a blog that can be subscribed to on his website theLoveoftheGame.com

Announcement
It is with great sadness that Airdrie Minor Basketball announces the passing of Colin McKenna. Colin was a driving force with AMBA as a parent, coach and board member. Most recently he served as President for the AMBA. His tireless volunteering helped many organizations wherever he went and his passing will be marked by all of them! We are thankful for his time of service and influence on us.

Donations can be made to Habitat for Humanity - Red Deer on his behalf.

Colin McKenna
May 12, 1957 to October 9, 2009



Note to our AMBA parents:
  • Once teams are formed keep checking the CMBA website at www.CMBA.ab.ca for new schedules

    We are always looking for sponsors to keep our programs affordable. If you or your company is looking to sponsor a local association that works in your community check with our contact list.

    Airdrie's Mini level is unique as it is entirely run in Airdrie. All practices and games are held in Airdrie schools! Each practice and game lasts one hour and each player gets a team t-shirt.

    We are always looking for referees for our Mini level, if you are interested please contact one of our board members! Reffing clinics are coming up this September.
    Your sponsorship of $330 outfits a team of 11 players in new jerseys for the upcoming year. $130 puts a team into new shorts or $115 outfits a mini level team. Every $70 we raise through sponsors puts a new leather game ball into action.


    Talk Airdrie sports on the new AirdrieOnline.ca message board just for sports


    A new place to talk Airdrie Sports - Airdrie Chatterbox

    Check with the CMBA Website for more Calgary and area basketball details.


    Without our volunteers there would be no basketball. We would like to thank every parent that stepped up to coach a team, manage a team, drive players to games, run the scoreclock, fill out the scoresheet and generally be a great supporter of Airdrie Minor Basketball!