The City’s Department
of Parks, Recreation and Community Facilities will hold its 9th
Annual CarMax Summer Basketball League championship games on Tuesday, July 28,
at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Stuart C. Siegel Center, 1200 West Broad
Street.
The league, funded with
a $85,000 grant from the CarMax Foundation this year, gives hundreds of city
children from ages 10 to 17 the opportunity to play organized basketball
throughout the summer.
The final
championship games at the Siegel Center will be free to the public and events
will tip off at 6 p.m. with a basketball skills challenge for league players
only. U-10, U-12, U-14, U-17 division games will begin shortly thereafter.
A brief ceremony
will be held before the start of the games to recognize the CarMax Foundation
and media sponsor 106.5 The Beat. Lane Casadonte, sports
anchor with WTVR Ch. 6, will serve as the master of ceremonies for the program,
and Tom Folliard, President/CEO of CarMax will provide remarks.
Since 2007, the
CarMax Foundation has given more than $840,000 to restore and expand the
department’s basketball courts at Pine Camp, renovate a building on the site for
use as a concession facility, and expand league play to include more youth and
a wheelchair league.
