Upward Sports- Great Bridge FWB Church

06/29/2022

Join us tonight for our Midweek Activities!

To begin our midweek activities, we will have prayer time in the church auditorium starting at 6:00 PM. Following the prayer time, our Midweek Service begins at 6:30 PM along with our Radiant Student Ministry and Children's Ministry.

Please plan to join us tonight as there is something for all ages!

12/22/2020

Merry Christmas! https://nafwb.org/.

11/12/2020

Good morning, all!

I am writing you this afternoon to inform you that after careful consideration, we have decided to forego an Upward Season this year. This decision comes solely based on the amount of participants that have registered and the bleak forecast that indicates. Thus far, we don't have enough registrants in each level to form two teams that would play each other week in, week out - let alone form a full schedule.

Regarding refunds - Upward will refund the payments directly to you via the method you used to pay the registration fee. I have been informed that this takes 3-4 business days to reflect.

Please keep an eye on our Upward page (Upward Sports - Great Bridge FWB Church) as we will be having age appropriate clinics led by qualified instructors throughout the Winter.

As saddening as this decision is for all of us, we hope that you will consider us next season when we, hopefully, return to full form. Stay safe, have a great Holiday Season and God Bless!

11/03/2020

11/02/2020

REGISTRATION IS OPEN!!!

Registration ends 11/11/2020. This year, should we have a league, we are looking at limiting admission to coaches, players and volunteers, with a live stream of every game for family and friends to watch their favorite player(s)! Feel free to share this post with friends and anyone else you think may be interested!

10/28/2020

Response to the survey has not gone well so we are opening registration to see if that attracts more participation. The links are below and fliers will also circulate the academy.

https://registration.upward.org/UPW71297 - This link gives parents the ability to registering their child for your program from the comfort of their homes.
https://registration.upward.org/UPW71297/volunteer - This link will direct anyone interested in volunteering to the volunteer registration page.

10/26/2020

We are currently gauging whether or not an Upward Season is feasible this year. We are considering many options regarding COVID-19 safety guidelines, one of which is limiting who can be in the gymnasium to players, coaches and volunteers while livestreaming the games for family and friends to watch. What we need from you is an indication as to whether or not you would sign up to participate under that format. Facebook's polling feature seems to be down at the moment, so please send your responses to the Commissioner at [email protected]. We will observe responses throughout the week before announcing the decision on Monday, November 2nd.

03/06/2020

Tournament Weekend is HERE!!

Level 3 kicks off tonight at 6:30pm! Come out to see who gets to cut down the nets!

Tomorrow is our Level 4 Tournament starting at 8:30am. We will have Chick-fil-A breakfast and lunch, as well!

03/02/2020

Welcome to Tournament Week 2020!

I wanted to provide a timeline and other details for this week. The practice schedule is as follows:
Bucks - Monday (today) at 6pm
Lakers - Monday (today) at 7pm
Pacers - Monday (today) at 7pm
Heat - Monday (today) at 8pm
Cavaliers - Tuesday at 6pm
Suns - Tuesday at 6pm
Magic - Thursday at 6pm
Thunder - Thursday at 6pm
If you have any questions on this schedule, please reach out to your coaches.

Tournament Schedules

The Level 3 Tournament will kick-off Friday night at 6:30pm with the 2-seed Thunder hosting the 3-seed Bucks. Thunder will wear white and Bucks will wear gold. The winner of that match-up will play the 1-seed Magic at 7:30pm and wear their gold uniforms.

The Level 4 Tournament starts Saturday morning at 8:30am. The match-ups are as follows:
Game 1 @ 8:30am
(4) Suns vs (5) Heat - Heat will wear gold

Game 2 @ 9:30am
(3) Pacers vs. (6) Kings - Kings will wear gold

Game 3 @ 10:30am
Winner of Game 2 vs (2) Cavaliers - Cavaliers will wear white

Game 4 @ 11:30am
Winner of Game 1 vs (1) Lakers - Lakers will wear white

Game 5 @ 12:30pm
Championship between Winner of Game 3 vs Winner of Game 4 - highest (best) seeded team wears white.

Please be at the gymnasium 30-minutes prior to your game's approximated start time as there will be no practices before the games. At the conclusion of every game, 15-minutes of warm-up time will be placed on the clock. Starting line-ups will be announced at the conclusion of the 15-minute warm-up period. Team benches and practice courts will be identified on the court diagram in the lobby of gymnasium.

PARTICIPANTS DO NOT NEED TO WEAR THEIR UNIFORMS TO THE CEREMONY AT 4PM SATURDAY.

If you have any further questions please reach out via email. Good luck to all teams!

V/R
Brandon Johnson
League Director