Last month, Juneau hosted the largest basketball tournament in Alaska. <\/p>\n
Thirty-six teams made up of nearly 300 youth from Southeast Alaska participated in HoopTime’s 18th annual Mike Jackson Memorial Shootout March 22-25. Thunder Mountain High School, Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School, Floyd Dryden and Glacier Valley Elementary hosted tournament games. Youth grades 3 through 8 from Angoon, Ketchikan, Sitka, Petersburg, Wrangell, Hoonah and Haines were represented in the tournament.<\/p>\n
HoopTime Basketball is an Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) organization founded in Juneau in 1999. The mission of HoopTime Basketball is to teach basketball skills to elementary through high school-aged student-athletes.<\/p>\n
Team Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n Boys A – HoopTime 8 Red<\/p>\n Boys B – HoopTime 7 Red<\/p>\n Boys C – Air One Ketchikan<\/p>\n Boys D – Sitka 5th Grade<\/p>\n Girls A – Wrangell<\/p>\n Girls B – Angoon<\/p>\n Girls C – Haines<\/p>\n Girls D – Sitka<\/p>\n All-tournament teams<\/strong><\/p>\n Boys A – Jackson Stanley, LJ Elizarde, Christian Ludeman, Brock McCormick, Carson Crager, Mark Davis, Wesley Verhamme, Cooper Kriegmont, Jemar Diga, Brennan Skeek.<\/p>\n Boys B – Matthew Johns, Gabby Soto, Jake Sleppy, Owen Costello,Clay Pearson, Carl Coloma, Nik Calhoun, Adrell Mulgrew-Truitt, Patrick Garcia, John Bissett.<\/p>\n Boys C – JJ Parker, Archie Dundas, Joebin Lorenzo, Kyan Scudero, Jason Young, Dylan Crenna, Tyler Andres, Eli Crupi, Kean Buss, Luke Davis, Levi Johnson, Riley Duncan.<\/p>\n Boys D – Jaden Costello, Jacob Friske, Grady Smith, Kayden Lujan, Levi Traxler, Samuel Lockhart, James Polasky, Hunter Conn, Kyle Biggers, Owen Adams.<\/p>\n Girls A – Elizabeth Armstrong, Jamie Early, Emma Martinsen, Julia Miethe, Tawny Smith, Madison Roy-Mercer, Makenna Smith, Kiana Potter, Jenae Pusich, Ines Larson.<\/p>\n Girls B – Kiara Endicott, Cheyenne Kookesh, Taryn Kookesh, Shay Kookesh, Bree Johnson, Mackenzie Pahang, Analeise Simpson, Rebekah Grube, Brooke McAndrews, Miranda Haddock, Julie Olsen, Faye Sibayan.<\/p>\n Girls C – Natalie Crager, Alison Benda, Natalie Jobbins, Sophia Cunningham, Jaya Carandang, Ariyana Jaramillio, Mikah Carandang, Mila Hargrave.<\/p>\n Girls D – Nia Nelson, Adriana Denkinger, Mecca Goldsberry, Cadance McGraw, Cagney Davis, Etta Eller, Stella Moran, Brenda See-Williams, Teslin Housler , Anya Pawuk.<\/p>\n Boys A Champions<\/strong><\/p>\n LJ Elizarde<\/p>\n Stanley Jackson<\/p>\n Christian Ludeman<\/p>\n Brock McCormick<\/p>\n Oliver Mendoza<\/p>\n Niko Tomaro<\/p>\n Gabe Williams<\/p>\n Marcos Yadao<\/p>\n Coaches: Vince Yadao and Gilbert Mendoza<\/p>\n Boys A third place <\/strong><\/p>\n Garrett Bryant<\/p>\n Chad Cheeseman<\/p>\n Blake Hudson<\/p>\n Cooper Kriegmont<\/p>\n Malakai Nichols<\/p>\n Bradley Padura<\/p>\n Trey Wilson<\/p>\n Coaches: Vince Yadao and Gilbert Mendoza<\/p>\n Boys B Champions <\/strong><\/p>\n Matthias Carney<\/p>\n Owen Costello<\/p>\n Eppers, Kaden<\/p>\n Matthew Hartsock<\/p>\n Colton Johns<\/p>\n Matthew Johns<\/p>\n Gavin Millard<\/p>\n Isaiah Nelson<\/p>\n Jake Sleppy<\/p>\n Esteban (Gabby) Soto<\/p>\n Coaches: Mike Carriker, Jon Malacas and Jayme Johns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last month, Juneau hosted the largest basketball tournament in Alaska. Thirty-six teams made up of nearly 300 youth from Southeast Alaska participated in HoopTime’s 18th annual Mike Jackson Memorial Shootout March 22-25. Thunder Mountain High School, Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School, Floyd Dryden and Glacier Valley Elementary hosted tournament games. Youth grades 3 through 8 from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":6766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-6765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6765"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}