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Due to Super Bowl Sunday, game times have been changed for Sunday, February 5th.  Rather than games starting at 1:00 pm and running on 75-minute intervals, games will begin at 12:30 pm and run on 70-minute intervals.  Visit our Game Schedule page to view updated VDBL Game Schedules.

Due to inclement weather (evening precipitation and the forecast of borderline freezing temperatures throughout the day), Albemarle County school authorities have closed down their facilities for Saturday, January 21, 2012.  Therefore, all JBL (grades 1 - 4) games for Saturday, January 21 have been CANCELED.  All VDBL (grades 5 - 8) games scheduled for Sunday, January 22 are still on as scheduled unless otherwise noted.  Please continue to check back to our website for updates.

Wow!  What an exciting time of year!  And, what an exciting time for basketball!  The past two weekends, VABA winter leagues have held over 60 sets of games for teams, boys & girls, ranging from grades 1 - 8.  The Junior Basketball League (JBL) took off with a bang for our younger grade levels (grades 1-2) and also our third and fourth grade teams!  This, our inaugural year for the JBL, could not have been more exciting and fun for all involved, from parents to coaches to young athletes.  Our goal for this age grou...

WOW!  What an exciting fall season as we have been hard at work preparing for the upcoming basketball season.  Both the Junior Basketball League (JBL, grades 1-2, 3-4) and the Virginia Developmental Basketball League (VDBL, grades 5, 6, 7, 8) have begun practices, and we have hit the ground running.  After intense, thorough training sessions with our VABA coaches, we have been thrilled at the teaching, the fundamentals, the skill and character development that has already taken place in the first week!  VABA's mission is bas...

The Junior Basketball League (for grades 1 - 2, 3 - 4) will be holding its Evaluation Dates on Fridays in October.  These dates are designed to allow our VABA staff to assess each young athlete signed up for this season, and evaluate their skill level, athleticism and other important intagibles.  Our goal is to be as thorough as we can in learning the overall skills, strengths and weaknesses of all the players, so we can not only even out the teams to create a balanced league, but also better determine where we ne...

What an exciting September for VABA! For grades 5, 6, 7, 8, the VDBL winter league evaluations are well underway!  Fall Skills Academies have begun (on Sunday afternoons), and Junior League sign-ups continue! For the past two weekends, hundreds of our local youth, boys and girls, have come and participated in our VDBL evaluations.  We thank you for coming and displaying your gifts!  We have completed three evaluations in September, and for city residents, we will have evaluations on September 27 (boys) and 29 (girls.  If you...

This fall the VDBL will be holding its annual basketball tryouts.  Over the past three years this league has become the most popular youth boys basketball league in the greater Charlottesville area with boys in grades 5 - 8 from all public and private schools in the greater Charlottesville-Albemarle area (including teams from Greene County to Fluvanna) trying out each September.  Due to limited facility availability, VABA has been able to take only 10 kids per age-group for each team - and, while this has ...

Congrats to all those who took part in the Memorial Madness Tournament on May 28th!  It was a great time had by all, and we appreciate our coaches, officials, volunteers and our student-athletes who dedicated their day toward a fun, productive day of basketball! Taking home the 5th grade Championship were the Charlottesville Dream, defeating the C'ville Saints in the finals.  The 7th grade Championship was an exciting finish, with the VABA Bruins-Black, Coached by James Davis, pulling out a hard-fought battle against the SQBA Junior S...

On Sunday, March 13, VABA held its third annual VDBL Championships at John Paul Jones Arena.  This was a wonderful occasion where all four divisions of the VDBL Boys league held the final game between the two remaining teams left in the Championship Tournament. The 1:00 pm matchup #1-seeded Saints against the #3-seed Black Knights for the 5th grade Divisoin title.  The final regular season game between these two teams had the Black Knights pulling off the upset, and the Saints were set on avenging this defeat and bringing home the fir...

The VDBL season is reaching its climactic moment as eight teams remain alive, all scheduled to play on Sunday, March 13th for their respective division crowns. Championship game times @ JPJ: 1:00 pm...5th grade Division Championship 2:30 pm...6th grade Division Championship 4:00 pm...7th grade Division Championship 5:30 pm...8th grade Division Championship 2011 VDBL Championship Tournament Bracket SPONSORS CLICK HERE TO PUT AN AD IN OUR CHAMPIONSHIP PROGRAM! In the 5th grade division, the #1-seed 11-2 Saints (coached by Mike Pausic and Chuck Co...