JLAB   BASKETBALL  

The Jefferson Lab basketball team is presently dormant. It had been sponsored by JAG   (Jefferson Lab Activities Group) for a few years. We played in the Newport News Parks & Recreation   Adult Basketball Winter Rec League.

• Subscribable e-mail list:   rec_bball@jlab.org.

• Will there be a team in the future ?   If someone else wants to organize it, great.   I can give you some advice about how to do it.   But if I were the organizer, here's what I would worry about:
  • We lost all our games in 2008, the last season we played.   This upset some people and we ended up having trouble finding 5 to show up to games.
  • We were not very competitive in 2007 either. Won one game, similar attendance pattern.
  • We need 8 to 10 guys committed to showing up !
  • Everyone should be aware of what they're getting into. Some info about that is below.

• The Newport News Winter League runs from approx. Dec 1 to mid-Feb.   We normally played in the C league, a lower level of competition.   There is also a Spring league in York County and a Newport News Summer League but they are A leagues.

• Even in C league, most players are young (20s) and the level of play is like above-average YMCA pickup ball. There will usually be 2 or 3 guys on a team who played high school ball. Two referees work the games, the teams wear uniforms, and scorekeepers keep score.