OUR STORY!
XPRESS BASKETBALL
Xpress To Basketball Life With The TIY Athletic Team!
TIY Basketball is one of the newest Midwest personal youth enrichment/skills development program serving youth of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana.
Basketball Motivation is our Motion!
Featuring a combination of league play and real life enrichment programming 365.
As a 501c3 nonprofit partnering with parents and community coaches we are inspiring a new day and a new young athlete ready for the courts of life and the fast pace game of basketball
TIY Basketball is for every player who wants to be more than just better. From day one of a player's basketball journey, we prepare each like its college draft, or academic scholarship awards day, and the choice is up to them, no pressure because they know they're really on their way.
TIY is here to mentor players on that journey.
Our players gain confidence, dribble, pass and shoot, study habits, do home task, leadership skills, "press, press, press."
Thats not all we do, we know we would be missing a tremendous opportunity to help our players get better as players and future leaders.
Our coaches & enrichment staff have had their lives changed by the game of basketball, and we are passionate about passing it on to every player that steps on our court.
Our players must understand that becoming great at basketball, or any profession is a process. we make the process of focusing, hard work, perseverance, and patience as painless and fun as possible.
Our players understand this , its their key to becoming great at basketball or the profession of their choice which one day, they too will become so... passionate about.
Welcome to the TIY way of developing the whole package for success beyond the courts.
WEE-BOP HOOP CAMP
Does your son want to learn the finer points of the lay-up, free throw, pull-up jumper, and 3-pointer? In the Basketball WEE-BOP'S HOOP CAMP dreams are made and solidified, during this (4) day NWI skills Building camp, boys/girls explore the local basic fundamentals of basketball, and personal self-growth; which will begin to prepare each child for the next levels of the game of competitive style basketball, as they progress through the XPRESS phases of team basketball prepping each for competitive play within his/her respective local school athletic program, where great local coaches will continue to develop individual sports skills.
Founder's History
Xpress Basketball, a very intricate athletic arm of “The National Foundation of Enrichment for the Arts, Humanities, and Education, Inc., a 501c3 Non Profit organization founded in 2005 by Mr. Jackson, who set-out to develop and incorporate a community youth enrichment/athletic platform, designed to improve communities, cities, states, and finally a nation, bringing youth together at an early age by a number of common threads "sports" (basketball, volleyball, soccer, softball, or flag football), and "enrichment labs"(tutoring, learning labs, camps, seminars, big brother/sister), regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background; projecting a light of compassion for all youth from within the community while breaking down barriers, and bridging the gap that cause community separation.
Youthful forces on a mission, building one united thriving community embracing individual from all walks of life, Citizens uniting in active support of this small yet
meaningful act designed to change cultures, and hearts, for a deeper commitment to building a stronger, richer community experience geared to fostering teamwork, ethnic understanding, diversified learning and exchange, creating a more informed community for a brighter future .
Youth understanding what makes a stronger community, while developing into stronger athletes feeding into community school athletic programs, resulting in a win, win for all; with an unwavering pride for communities rich in diversity, and heritage.
Finally a program which provides a enriching platform for our youth to master their athletic skills, and inner feeling, for total success in the classrooms, on and off the courts throughout life.