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The June 1919 cover of Association Men, a YMCA publication War Relief YMCA A YMCA library in Charleston, South Carolina A YMCA in Huntington, West Virginia in 2022 In 1891, James Naismith , a Canadian American, invented basketball while studying at YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts (later to be named Springfield ...
YMCA after-school programs are geared towards providing students with a variety of recreational, cultural, leadership, academic, and social skills for development. American high school students have a chance to participate in YMCA Youth and Government, wherein clubs of children representing each YMCA community convene annually in their ...
The first known U.S. college to field a basketball team against an outside opponent was Vanderbilt University, which played against the local YMCA in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 7, 1893. [27] The second recorded instance of an organized college basketball game was Geneva College 's game against the New Brighton YMCA on April 8, 1893, in ...
The Monroe Family YMCA will begin Winter Youth Basketball Leagues in January. Registration is now open.
Boys High School is a Romanesque Revival-style ... (1935-1962), Basketball coach made the ... Principal (1907-1916), later Director of the YMCA for the American ...
Postcard of women playing basketball in Dagupan, 1910 The national team playing against China at the 1917 Far Eastern Games in Tokyo. Basketball was introduced in the Philippines during the American colonial period with the first American teachers teaching the sport along with baseball through the YMCA and the school system. [1]
By 1892, basketball had grown so popular on campus that Dennis Horkenbach (editor-in-chief of The Triangle, the Springfield college newspaper) featured it in an article called "A New Game", [7] and there were calls to call this new game "Naismith Ball", but Naismith refused. [9] By 1893, basketball was introduced internationally by the YMCA ...
He moved to California [2] where he served as Executive Director of Gardena-Carson Family YMCA. In addition, he runs an annual basketball camp with his brother, Tim, called the Greg Koubek Basketball Camp. [2] In 2018, Koubek was named Executive Director of the new Triunfo YMCA in Westlake Village, California, opening in 2019. [7]