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Our Vision as an organization is to help every player become better through hard work, discipline, and team play. Our philosophy is that if you are good enough to make the team, you are good enough to play. Our mission is to give every player an opportunity to play a very highly skilled level of basketball against some of the best teams and players in the country. We are a non-profit 501(c)3 organization run entirely by volunteers; therefore donations in any amount will be greatly appreciated.
Our mission is to give every player an opportunity to play a very highly skilled level of basketball against some of the best players in the country...

Our goal is to teach every player the value of hard work, discipline, and team play. Our desire is to make every effort to prepare our players for the next level - in life and in basketball. We want to get every player in front of as many college coaches as possible - and with this in mind, our hope and desire is that some coach will see our kids play and will want him/her for his/her program. With the never ending cost of college we feel that any scholarship money from academics or sports will help significantly...
The AAU Effect

Playing AAU basketball has big recruiting perks. The Baltimore Cougars,Cassie Cooke’s AAU team, have sent dozens of players to Division I programs.

Cammeron Woodyard, a Winters Mill graduate and the Times Boys Basketball Player of the Year last season, is a freshman at Penn State and the first boys county player to play for a D-I program since 2002 South Carroll grads Josh Boone (Connecticut) and Marshall Strickland (Indiana) enjoyed solid careers at a couple of national powers.

Woodyard credits his AAU experience for helping him get noticed as a junior. A 6-foot-5, 195-pound shooting guard, Woodyard played for the Maryland Mavericks and traveled to Las Vegas for a tournament. Woodyard says his wake-up call came when he got to Vegas and saw which college coaches were in attendance.

“All of the ACC head coaches were there standing in a circle talking, just like regular people,” Woodyard recalls. “That opened my eyes up to all the possibilities of what could happen.”

Woodyard says WM coach Dave Herman and Mavericks coach Thomas Caviness were instrumental in getting his name out to prospective programs. As the season progressed the same colleges kept in contact and when Penn State had an open scholarship the choice became simpler.

“Making the final decision makes things a little easier,” Woodyard says. “After that, you have to face reality. You’re going to the Big Ten, you’re going to be playing big-time basketball.”

But not all roads to D-I run directly through AAU.

Boone’s travels from SC to UConn had him stopping off for a year at West Nottingham Academy, a prep school in northeastern Maryland. In 2002-03, Boone averaged 25.5 points, 16 rebounds and 9.5 blocks before heading to Storrs, Conn., and the Huskies.

The 6-10 forward, who now plays in the NBA for the New Jersey Nets, spent his AAU days with Cecil Kirk in Baltimore, alongside Memphis Grizzlies forward Rudy Gay.

For all of these athletes, getting to that point comes only after being courted, a process that is often both straining and flattering but can be most rewarding.


AAU Vision

To offer amateur athletes and volunteers opportunities to develop to their highest level through a national and local network of sporting events. Through participation in AAU, we achieve our dreams as athletes and as valued citizens of our communities.

AAU Mission

To offer amateur sports programs through a volunteer base for all people to have the physical, mental, and moral development of amateur athletes and to promote good sportsmanship and good citizenship.