The Lackawanna County 3 on 3 Basketball Tournament drew 73 teams to downtown Scranton July 27-29. More than half the champions of the event’s various age groups came from Backcourt Hoops in Scranton. The highest-level girls champion was made up…
By Tom Robinson Lauren Carra was a business major and established starter on the women’s basketball team at the University of Delaware when she decided to spend some time coaching in the Special Olympics prior to her junior year. It…
J.C. Show is one of 10 Binghamton University student-athletes and the only member of the school’s men’s basketball team to make the America East Conference list of Presidential Scholar-Athletes that was released earlier this month. Show is an Abington Heights…
By Tom Robinson Lauren Charlton learned something about her love of basketball and about the toughness of athletes who have gone through lengthy rehabilitation from injury. “I give credit to all of the people who have gone through something like…
Between Memorial Day and the end of July, the courts at Backcourt Hoops fill up with games in the PNC Bank Summer Team League on weekday evenings. The largest of those leagues is the boys varsity league, which has 25…
By Tom Robinson Kathleen Rose has been around basketball for much of her life, but she points to the spring of seventh grade, when she first joined a JB Hoops AAU team, as the time when she began taking the…
By Tom Robinson Sean Miller is anxious to get started. “To say I’m excited is quite an understatement,” Miller said of becoming Northwest boys basketball coach. “I’m ready to roll. “If I could get in the gym right now, I…
JB Hoops alum Joey Grula, a senior at Hazleton Area, closed out his high school athletic career Saturday by earning a state medal at the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association Track and Field Championships. Grula finished eighth out of 26 Class…
Morgan Birmelin kept climbing through the ranks of the Mid-Atlantic’s top players and the nation’s most productive National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III guards in her junior season at DeSales University. The JB Hoops and Honesdale High School alum ranked…
SCRANTON – JB Hoops alums Lexi Walsh and Joey Grula once again made the most of another athletic outlet to display their running and jumping abilities. The two basketball all-stars also showed off their endurance and the ability to perform…