FBVA provides youth basketball at the recreational or "for fun" level. However, there are many FBVA teams that compete in AAU or YBOA and place among the top teams in the state and nation.
FBVA is proud to acknowledge, encourage, and support teams that advance beyond the recreational level. Win or lose, we recognize the efforts of FBVA teams to compete at a higher level.
FBVA helps sponsor a competition team in almost every age and gender group. FBVA teams have consistently placed high in state and national tournaments. Since 1996, FBVA competition travel teams have achieved the following accomplishments:
ame for the sport.
It was the winter of 1891-1892. Inside a gymnasium at Springfield College (then known as the International YMCA Training School), located in Springfield, Massachussetts, was a group of restless college students. The young men had to be there; they were required to participate in indoor activities to burn off the energy that had been building up since their football season ended. The gymnasium class offered them activities such as marching, calisthenics, and apparatus work, but these were pale substitutes for the more exciting games of ... Read More
FBVA is a unique basketball league private non-profit service provider. Like other sports we have tryouts each year at the end of the traditional winter season for interested players to play on our grade specific All-Star teams to represent the Central Florida area in special events above and beyond ... Read more
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a nonprofit association of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals that organizes the athletic programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.
In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, and Division III was adopted by the NCAA membership in a special...Read More
The abbreviation 'FIBA' derives from the French 'Fédération Internationale de Basketball Amateur'. The Word 'Amateur' was dropped in 1986 after the distinction between Amateurs and Professionals was eliminated. The 'A' in FIBA was however left. This was for reasons of tradition and also because of
After two editions as hosts of the FIVB Volleyball Men’s World Championship (last time in 2010), Italy will host the women for the first time ... Read More
