Partial List of Colleges and Universities actively recruiting our Sports U/Team IZOD players
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UVA, Richmond, U of Mami, Providence, Seton Hall, Fordham, Hofstra, Penn State, St. Bonaventure, Siena, Robert Morris, Colgate, Notre Dame, Rutgers, Boston University, Oregon State University, Marist, St. Joe's, Princeton, American University, Catholic University, NJIT, Alabama A & M, Norfolk State, UNC-Central, Bloomfield, Dillard University, Oklahoma City University, Gannon, Savannah State, Morgan State, St. Francis, Florida Atlantic, Tampa, CW Post, Georgetown College, Stony Brook, Kennesaw State, Maryland Baltimore-County, Wagner, Delaware, Fordham, Marist, George Mason, Quinnipiac, UNC Wilmington, George Mason, Colgate & Lafayette University
Team IZOD Prepares for
its 8th Season.
The Expectations couldn't
be higher.
After a 2012 basketball season that saw Team IZOD
win over 25 championships in National, Regional and District tourneys
in various age groups. The expectations couldn’t be higher. This past
season saw 6 of our 17U student athletes accept full scholarships to
high and mid major Div. 1 schools. Josh Brown Temple University,
Spencer Weisz Princeton University, Kasim Chandler Quinnipiac, Deandre
Bembry St Joseph University, Hallice Cooke Oregon State University,
Keith Kirkwood U of Hawaii and for 2014 it will be the U of Kentucky
for Karl Towns.
We started Team IZOD with the belief that we could make a difference
in the elite student athlete life both on and off the court. That
there was a place for a program that did things the right way. Many
people believe that sports, public education, religion and politics
are the four most dominant and pervasive social forces that shape our
society and influence the quality and character of American culture.
Our staff here at Team IZOD U realize that the love of sports is so
deeply embedded in our national consciousness that the values of
millions of people — participants and spectators — are directly and
dramatically affected by the values conveyed by organized sports. This
places a significant social responsibility on our coaches who
influence our basketball players to assure that athletic competition
helps build the character and ethics and gives each of our players a
clear understanding of what their social contract is to their
communities at large. http://izod.com/thread/aau-team-izod/
Many aspects of American society are competitive, including our free
enterprise system, and our views as to what is permissible and proper
in the competitive pursuit of personal goals are influenced strongly
by the dominant values of high-profile athletic competition. We strive
to have our program be more than basketball and build character by
living these principles. Never minimizing that we have been entrusted
with exceptional future basketball stars and our goal is to see them
all awarded NCAA basketball scholarships. Five principles of our
program are.
Striving to Win. Though the program will stress how
win-at-any-cost strategies inevitably degrade sports, it will not
trivialize or devalue either the desire to win or the importance of
winning.
Winning Is Important. For athletes and coaches who
devote huge portions of their lives to being the best they can be in
the pursuit of individual victories, records, championships and
medals, it is demeaning to dismiss the importance of victory by saying
"it’s only a game." Winning is important. Trying to win is essential.
Without the passionate pursuit of victory, much of the enjoyment as
well as the educational and spiritual value of sports would be lost.
Ethics Is Essential to True Winning. We believe the best
strategy is not to de-emphasize winning but to more vigorously
emphasize that adherence to ethical standards and sportsmanship in the
honorable pursuit of victory is essential to winning in its true
sense. It is one thing to be declared the winner; it is quite another
to really win. Victories attained in dishonorable ways are hollow and
degrade the concept of sport.
Cheating and Bad Sportsmanship Are Not Options. We
believe that cheating and bad sportsmanship are simply not options
because they rob victories of meaning and value and replace the high
ideals of true sport with the degrading and petty values of a
dog-eat-dog marketplace.
Principles of Ethics and Sportsmanship Are Ground Rules. The responsibility to demonstrate and develop good character
should never be subordinated to the desire to win. Principles of
ethics and sportsmanship are ground rules governing the pursuit of
victory. The vital lessons and great value of sports are learned from
the honorable pursuit of victory, from the competition itself rather
than the outcome.
2011-2012
