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WHO WE ARE
SPARTANS BASKETBALL
ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION (SBAA) is a non-profit organization registered in
the province of Ontario and founded on September 2006 in the city of
Brampton. It was officially registered as a non-profit corporation on
March 13, 2007.
MISSIONS AND
OBJECTIVES
The Club's main objectives
are to institute and promote Spartans' team concepts through player
development with advanced skill-set training for the betterment of
basketball throughout the Peel Region and to establish and operate an
athletic club for the purpose of:
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Promoting organized athletic
sports, games and recreation and in particular, the sport of Basketball;
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Arranging matches and competitions and establishing and granting prizes,
awards and distinctions;
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Fostering goodwill and sportsmanship.
IN THE BEGINNING
SPARTANS started its humble
beginnings from a group of parents who gathered in late summer of 2006.
The desire of the group is to provide the players with proper instructions
and to develop their basketball skills. With this goal in mind,
everyone gave a helping hand and volunteered in anyway they can to put up
teams that made up the first batch of SPARTANS basketball teams.
Player training and practices were held at a number of school gymansiums at
locations in Brampton and Mississauga.
THE ROOKIE SEASON
(2006-2007)
In its inaugural season,
SPARTANS participated in the PHYBA Winter Basketball League 2006-2007 with
the entry of six teams. It was a great success for a rookie team: the TYKES
and BANTAM divisions won 3rd Place; the MIDGET landed 4th; and the GIRLS
division made it to the final four. In the MYAA Summer League of 2007,
its BANTAM team won the championship. The club also participated in the MYBA InterColour Tournament in the Summer of 2007, where its GIRLS
division won
first place and the TYKES division won 2nd place.
At the end of the season, SPARTANS
players, parents and friends celebrated their season's achievements with a
Player and
Parent Appreciation Night for a great team effort and job very
well done. SPARTANS also had a lot of great fun during the
summer with a club picnic at the Erin Mills Park where their members
shared food together and held their first fund raising raffle draw.
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