Week 1# Baylor’s Winter Basketball League
We would like to Welcome all the new and returning teams to our 8th Annual Winter Basketball League. We bring the most competitive traveling and league teams in the Illinois and Northwest Area. If you want to compete and get your teams ready for the full AAU season, this is the best league to do…
Recap Day 2 of the Nike Showdown-Featuring The Future
The future looks very bright for the 2016 class. The 15u did not fall short at all with tapping out with 40 plus teams. The freshman started off Saturday morning knocking off the competition. The Nike Showdown was filled with talented teams including MWSB, Playground Elite, Illinois Celtics, Impact Basketball, Illinois Gold Rush, Henderson Hoopstars,…
Recap Day 1 Nike Spring Showdown
The Nike Showdown NCAA event proven to be the top NCAA certified event in the Midwest for the first live period. Maxing out with over 200 teams. This event brought in the top Nike, Adidas, UA and traveling teams into Matteson, Illinois. We had some of the best teams in the country! This…
Eye Opener For All at the “Battle of the Borders” Event
Eye Opener For All at the “Battle of the Borders” EventThis past weekend’s “Battle of the Borders” tournament featured some of the country’s brightest up-and-coming talent. Teams from Illinois, Indiana, Georgia, Wisconsin, Arizona, North Carolina, Maryland, and Washington, D.C., converged on the campus of The University of Illinois in Champaign to engage in fierce competitive…
Nike Spring Showdown NCAA Certified Event
The Nike Spring Showdown will feature over 200 amateur teams from across the country. Our event will have an economically impact the Village of Matteson and its surrounding townships. The Nike Spring Showdown was ran in Merrillville, Indiana for the past four years and outgrew the area. This is a NCAA certified college exposure event…
Another Successful Camp! East vs. West Qualifying Camp held in Chicago
Another Successful Camp! East vs. West Qualifying Camp held in Chicago. The East vs West Camp was full of talent young players from across the county. No other camp bring this many elite players under one roof like the East vs. West. We had individual players coming from Ohio, California, Tennessee, Arizona, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama,…
Andrew Drone off to Rice University 2013 Class Signee
Another BYF Sports players signs to a Major D1. Andrew Drone signs to Rice University. We wish Andrew much success with playing in the USA Conference. Andrew played up his freshman and sophomore with BYF Sports for two seasons. He was left without a team his junior year due to all the Missouri teammates graduating.…
MWSB Grassroots Program
Michael White is an extraordinary coach with more than eleven years of grassroots basketball experience along with coaching at De La Salle Institute high school for six years. Michael established the MWSB Grassroots Program. Mike believes in motivating his student athletes and teaching them the basic fundamentals. Mike stated that “by teaching his players to keep a positive attitude and learn…
Claudia Cooper first HS Girl Signee for Lady BYF Sports for the 2013 class
Claudia Cooper first HS Girl Signee for Lady BYF Sports for the 2013 classClaudia Cooper joined BYF Sports only last year and through her hard work has landed a full basketball athletic scholarship to Georgia Perimeter College in Clarkston, Georgia. George Perimeter is D1 junior college program that is heavily recruited by major D1 programs. Claudia Cooper…
AAU State District Qualifier & Girls Summer Classic
All roads lead to the 2013 AAU Nationals! Indianapolis verses Northwest Indiana & Chicagoland surrounding areas brought in some serious competition into the area.The AAU State District Qualifier & Girls Summer Classic was very competitive and all teams represented well! Good Luck in Nationals to All the Teams! [one_half] Champs 3rd Grade I C…
Baylor Youth Receives Southland Grant
Baylor Youth Foundation receive the Chicago Southland Grant. We are pleased to announce that we are the BYF has received a grant from the Chicago Southland Convention Visitor’s Bureau. Joel from the Bureau has been very instrumental with assisting BYF with facilitating housing and gyms for the Nike Spring Showdown and our AAU tournaments. We truly appreciate…
Winter Ball Fest Event
The Winter Ball Fest started and ending with a blast. The event was open to all league, traveling and AAU teams. Below are the tournament results: [one_half] Champs 5th Grade Indiana MVP 6th Grade Li Ning Buckeye’s 7th Grade Li Ning Buckeye’s 8th Grade Steger Basketball [/one_half] [one_half_last] Runners Up 5th Grade Boilingbrook Magic 6th…