Elevate Basketball Academy

Old Just 4 Feet building. Cool setup with a practice court and a nice fullsize hardwood court. That in itself deserves a star. Unfortunately the youth spring league is horrible! Signed up for a very pricey youth league and drive over 40 miles each way to play. The talent is horrendous! My kid is FAR from a star player, but any normal rec league I've seen is leaps and bounds better than this league. Will not waste our time with this league after this newly started season is over. Take your kid to any local playground, YMCA, etc, and save yourself the money.

I decided to give it two stars since the facility had a nice court and the coaches kept the kids moving and they played scrimmages. But overall the camp that we attended did not meet my expectations. On the description of the camp it stated learning fundamental skills and this was the key reason we went. I was there watching during the camp and there were no fundamental lessons at all. I was hoping to see them learn defense, boxing out, shooting skills, talk about following your shots, basic dribbling technique but there was nothing like that. Also the kick boxing was going on during the camp and the music was extremely loud.

My experience is only limited to their Open Gym. I cannot speak for their other programs. We went to their open gym just to give my kids (6yo, 10yo) something active to do during a snow day. For $20, you can leave your kids from 10AM-4PM for some basketball and lunch (pizza+drinks). I guess this is a good deal for parents who work and need someplace to leave their kids. But in my case, I am a stay-at-home mom and the main reason I sent them was for some basketball game and skill development. Both were not really realized since they had more than 50kids there, with ages ranging from 6 to 14 (I think). There was no structured activity and the kids were not grouped accdg to age so the smaller kids didn't have as much chance to play as the bigger ones. The 30mins I sat there, only 1 adult was in the court (serving as 'referee' for a game). There was a long line of kids just to shoot the ball since there were not enough balls for the number of kids present. When I went back to pick them up 3hrs later, my kids were blaming me for leaving them there while I went grocery shopping. They said they wasted their time since they really didn't get to play ball very much, and asked that we never go back.Giving them 3 stars since again, this maybe a good deal for parents who work and need to leave their kids on a snow day. For $20, it is good. But as far as basketball skill development, I wouldn't count much of that happening. It would've been good if they at least put some thought on how they can put some structure to the program, and if they had more people supervising the kids (not sure if there were people sitted and watching the kids since I only saw one in the court with them).

This is an average of two different ratings. I would give them 5 stars for the facility and what they do for kids that love basketball. But I would give them a 1 for their communication. We have gone there several times when they have their open gym. A couple of times we got kicked out early because they had scheduling issues and a couple of times we have gone during times when they sent out emails with open gym hours and there was no one there. Called later and they had to cancel because there weren't enough kids. NO COMMUNICATION!! My son's team had a game scheduled there one night. We got there and Elevate had two full games scheduled at the same time on the same court! So one game had to be played on the half-court. That sucked! Like I said, great facility, but their organization/communication skills need some work!