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The San Pedro Knights
Traveling basketball club is one of the oldest continuing teams in
Southern California and the oldest in the South Bay.
We currently operate 7
boys travel teams and 4 girls teams. We adhere to the AAU guidelines
for age and grade level.
The boys teams are
10under/4th grade, 11under/5th grade, 12under/6th grade, 13under/7th
grade, 14under/8th grade; and High School Junior Varsity and High
School Varsity divisions.
We have recently started
a girls division which fields teams at the 11under/5th grade,
12under/6th grade, 13under/7th grade, and 14under/8th
grade.
The Knights began in
1984 in the city of San Pedro, California. It started with one team
that was made up of a group of All-Stars from Bogdonovich Park. It has
steadily grown over the years to its present state.
The Knights pride
themselves on producing solid high school players. Indeed, many of our
boys have gone on to college (Division 1 and below) and we were fortunate
enough to have one drafted into the NBA with the Seattle
Supersonics.
Our real accomplishment,
though, is the ability to produce players that have outstanding high
school careers, both as athletes and scholars. We strive to make All-City,
All-CIF and Player of the Year an attainable goal for all of our
players and we have been extremely successful to have accomplished this
achievement many times over. We have regular grade checks and of
equal importance is the citizenship mark. It is the goal of the Knights to
produce men of honor and integrity as well.
We have a Junior Knight
program for both boys and girls which start at age 7 and ends at age 9.
With these fundamentals, the youngsters are now ready to begin travel ball
at 10.
With the professional
league now drafting high school seniors and the colleges scouting down to
the 12 year old level, the youth of today have sadly lost much of the
ability to experiment in other sports and are more and more are being
forced to specialize.
We on the Knights have
dedicated ourselves to the policy of flexibility when it comes to the
options of the young player. Taking into account the need to continually
grow in the fundamentals and to play at a dictated high level, we
really work with the athlete and his/her parents to find the time to fit
everything they desire to participate in.
We invite all players,
both boys and girls, to come and see if they are ready for travel
ball.
It is our stated
philosophy to make every player who comes to us better than even they
thought they could be.
We do not recruit
and we do not sacrifice what is important just for the sake of
winning.
Some just look to
collect talent and venture forth just to win.
We prefer to take hard
working kids and turn them into what other clubs would love to
steal.
Welcome to KnightTime!
Come see what all the fun is
about!
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