Hello Friends of the Merrimack Valley Youth Basketball League

    We are excited to report that we are gearing up for our 2018-19. We will be holding our annual Coaches Clinic on 11-4-18. 

    Our Board of Directors will meet at the end of September to kick off our new 2018-2019 season. Our Town Coordinators meeting will be at the end of September as well. The MVBL BOD may also meet in early January to review our start up and first half of the season, and to finalize the second half of the season and our annual playoffs culminating in Championship weekend.

    We will continue to update our website with current information so please check back often.

    To all of our 8th grade coaches please remember the mandatory nomination of one of your players for our annual 8th grade Sportsmanship award. This is a wonderful opportunity for one player in each 8th grade division to be honored for their career in the MVBL. Our 8th grade coordinator, Brian Gargan, will be collecting nominations and our Sportsmanship committee will select the winners in February. The winners will be honored at Championship Sunday.

    Please note, league games always take precedent over all other basketball games. We have worked closely with school teams so as to not have conflicts with school basketball, but our games take precedent over all other games your child might be playing in (AAU, REC, YMCA, CHURCH LEAGUE ETC)

    We ask that our member towns support the tournaments that are being hosted by the towns in our league. Many of these tournaments aid the hosting towns to be able to manage their programs and we would like you to look at these tournaments first.

    Most importantly, it is mandatory that all of our players, parents, fans and coaches adhere to our league Sportsmanship statement along with the individual town policies and code of conduct.

Hope to see you at the gym this season,

Best Regards

Ken Miano

President MVBL

Town Coordinators for 2017-2018 Season

Millworks- Westford-     Flyer

Pro Skills Boston Offensive Skills Clinic (St. Augustine’s)

WHO: Boys and Girls grades 3-8

WHEN: October 22^nd

TIME: 1:00 pm-3:30 pm

WHERE: St. Augustine's - 26 Central St., Andover, MA 01810

PRICE: $30 per clinic

Register: https://proskillsbasketball.com/locations/massachusetts/boston/

Free Basketball Clinic (Phillips Academy Andover)

WHO: Boys and Girls grades Pre-K to 8^th grade

WHEN: November 12th

TIME: 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM: Children in Pre-K and Kindergarten (with parents present)

TIME: 9:45AM – 10:45AM: 1st-3^rd grade

TIME: 10:45AM-11:45PM: 4^th-8^th grade

WHERE: Memorial Gym at Phillips Academy Andover (7 Salem St., Andover, MA 01810)

PRICE: Free

Register: RSVP by emailing

Pro Skills Boston Thanksgiving Clinic (St. Augustine’s)

WHO: Boys and Girls grades 3-8

WHEN: November 24 – 25^th

TIME: 9:00 am-1:00 pm

WHERE: St. Augustine's - 26 Central St., Andover, MA 01810

PRICE: $100

Register: https://proskillsbasketball.com/locations/massachusetts/boston/

Pro Skills Boston Christmas Clinic (St. Augustine’s)

WHO: Boys and Girls grades 3-8

WHEN: December 22 – 23^rd

TIME: 9:00 am-1:00 pm

WHERE: St. Augustine's - 26 Central St., Andover, MA 01810

PRICE: $100

Register: https://proskillsbasketball.com/locations/massachusetts/boston/

Coordinator’s Check List

Confirm with Town Coordinators (TC) number of teams, team names if multiple teams submitted, recommended division, coaches data (Name, email, cell).

Submit list of teams by name and division to Webmaster so the website can have the proper divisions created.

Once website correct, enter coach’s data onto the website (directions are on MVbasketball.com).

Send email to all coaches (always cc the TC) introducing yourself and provide some basic information to them: Refer them to the website for divisions, general rules and special rules if applicable (press rules, defense rules, etc. that apply to your grade level). Any questions must be directed to you instead of the league for your grade.  Coaches need to enter scores on the website within 24 hours of game played- either team can enter- winner/loser/home/away.  All technical fouls on either team must be reported by the coaches (goal is to have both coaches be reporting). If a league game must be postponed/modified etc. only the grade coordinator can change the game- coaches or TC must notify the grade coordinator to make the changes. Inform them of the scheduling meeting and all towns must be present with all their blank home games and availability to play away games for the scheduling meeting.

8^th Grade Coordinator has additional duties, they must collect all the players shirt sizes as the league provides a T shirt for every player- this should be collected when the teams submit their team rosters.  Also, all teams that want to compete in the playoffs must submit a sportsmanship for a player on their team-website has the award information and a guideline on what should be submitted on the website.

At the end of the scheduling meeting, all teams must provide all their home games to the coordinator.  The coordinator will then enter into the website all the home games. Once done each team must check their schedules on the website so the coordinator can make any changes.

One week before teams play the first game ensure that all teams have submitted a roster.

Weekly check the website to ensure that all game scores are recorded. Remind teams to make up all games, as all games must be completed by last day of the season- rules allows teams to have games won and lost if not made up based on the team’s cooperation in rescheduling.

During the season, keep track of any Technical fouls and follow rules- I would notify President as any T’s occur.

At end of season, arrange the play in schedule and playoff schedule.  Notify coaches and TC of the events.

Coordinators help organize the divisions for the following year moving forward.

Coordinators attend League meetings and provide summary reports of the season. 

All Gyms are OPEN.

How to enter Coach/Assistant Coach/Manager data into application

Must determine if person was assigned a role last season or in a season longer than a year ago or is a new person to the application.

If was a Coach/Assistant Coach/Manager last year

Then the data is already in the system and only need to change what data has changed, which typically would be only the team involved assigned this current season. 

First step is for coordinator to log into mvbasketball.com.

Select ADMIN

Select Members

Select Look-up members

Enter Members last name and change the assigned to team(s) tab to NOT assigned to a team(s)

Once a list of members appear select the correct name

Select the Teams tab

Select the teams name and select the correct team (team name if multiple teams for town and the appropriate grade).

Select the correct position Coach/Assistant Coach/Manager

If any contact information needs to be modified select the Contact tab and correct any data.

Select submit to save the changes.

If the Coach/Assistant Coach/Manager is new to mvbasketball.com then full data will need to be entered.

Select ADMIN

Select Members

Select Look-up members

Select Add members to enter contact information

Enter First and Last name in data fields

Enter Town/City

Enter State

Enter Cell phone number and select public

Enter Email address and select public

Select remind games and practices

Select the Teams tab

Select the teams name and select the correct team (team name if multiple teams for town and the appropriate grade).

Select the correct position Coach/Assistant Coach/Manager

Select submit to save the changes.

2017-2018 Grade Coordinators

8^th Grade Joe Walker

7^th Grade Brian Gargan

6^Th Grade Dave Oatis  daveoatis@gmail.com

5^{th  Grade}

How to Enter Games and Practices

Only Grade Coordinators can enter games and modify/reschedule games for any reason (gym canceled, location change, etc.).

Coach/Assistant Coach/Manager can add practices and non-league games.

Non-league games do not appear in any of the MVbasketball.com standings.  However, Non-Divisional games do (Note-only the Grade coordinators can enter Non-Divisional games that appear in the standings).

First step is to log into mvbasketball.com.

Select ADMIN

Select Scheduling

Select Add game/Practice

Enter Date, Start Time and 60 (minutes for length)

Enter Gym location

Enter Category (Game – practice-Non divisional –non League, etc.)

Season- selected the current season

Team- use the drop down to select the correct team-grade and team name/division

Ensure that the following boxes are checked; Notify Team Managers, Notify Team members and parents, and Notify Officials

Select Submit.

The Scheduling Meeting for 2017-2018 season will be held on November 5, 2017 at the Tewksbury Baseball building on the corner of East and Chandler streets. The best address to plug into a GPS would be for the senior center across the street from the fields at 175 Chandler Street. If you ae unable to attend, please send someone in your place.

Every town must have a member present along with a listing of home gym games.

Time schedule:

4:00pm Fourth Grade

5:00pm Fifth Grade

6:00pm sixth Grade

7:00pm Seventh Grade

8:00pm Eight Grade

Coaches, please follow the directions on the below link to login.

You must login using your email and password. Note; the email must be the one used to establish your account.

If you don't know your password you can set one up by leaving the password blank.  The system will email you a link on how to set one up to your email account.

To enter game results:

1. Log into MVBASKETBALL.COM website using the email that was used to establish your account and your password.
2. Navigate to your teams page (season, Grade/Division, Team Name).
3. On the left side of the screen select RESULTS
4. Find the game to enter the scores and click the item in the ACTIONS (located on the right of the screen).
5. Record your name and email in the appropriate fields. Then record the scores of the teams and submit.

See example of Screens.

Town Coordinators Please submit the following information

Please submit to Grade Coordinators or Ken Miano, your Coaches grade, name, email and cell number.

Due Date for Travel Fees and Insurance Certificates is November 11, 2017.

Travel League Fees are to be mailed to Bob Adiconis 72 Gray Street, North Andover Ma. 01845. Check should be made payable to Merrimack Valley Youth Basketball.  The fee for 2017-2018 season is $18.00 per player.

Insurance Certificates are to be emailed to Ken Miano at 

Head Coaches must submit FINAL TEAM ROSTERS, 1 week prior to their first game. The Final rosters need to be emailed to the Grade Coordinators.

As we enter our 2016-17 season the following are things we would like parents, players and coaches to keep in mind:

1. Please review the 2016-17 League rules for any changes from last year.

2. The league has adopted a league wide code of conduct statement that goes hand in hand with the individual town code of conducts. We ask that everyone involved help us make this year the best in the area of conduct and sportsmanship.

3. Grades 5-8 will have four divisions named: East, North, South and West.

4. A reminder that Travel practices and games take precedent at all times over other leagues/initiatives. We work to minimize any conflict with Middle School Team leagues. New Winter AAU, catholic school and other recreation basketball must never take precedent over travel basketball and subject to consequences

5. Coaches & players should familiarize yourself with any IAABO rule changes.

6. Please keep in mind that at the youth level, there will be many new officials that will make mistakes just like our players and coaches.

7. Parents please be aware of our league timeline right from the start.

8. We feel we have one of the best youth travel leagues in New England and we ask you to help us maintain this reputation.

Please update your contact information by logging into "Edit My Account" and editing your contact information directly.  All you need is your email address and it will email you your password.

Either use the menu on the left of the front page or click here to edit your account information.

If your email address has changed and you no longer have access to it you can create a new entry with your new email.  Please contact your Grade Coordinator so that he is aware of your changes.