Mitcham’s Canons Leisure Centre (in Surrey) will host an epic battle this Saturday 15th May 2010 between the best of yesteryear and the stars of the future.
The Family Festival is an annual event now in it’s 6th year, held by coaching and mentoring charity, CIA Basketball. The Festival brings together some of the country’s finest ever players in an Old School v New School exhibition game that’s littered with live music and dance performances as well as on court competitions for the whole family to get involved in.
If you miss this, you are missing out on what is going to be a top day of British basketball, the rosters are currently looking like this
Peter Scantlebury MBE
Pierre Henry-Fontaine
Tony Grant.
Julius Joseph
Junior Williams
Marcus Knight
Nik Lawry
Carl Routledge
Tony Brown
Steve Vear
Babs Maye
Lekan Popoola
[Final spot to be announced shortly]
Coach: Nhamo Shire
Stefan Gill
Michale Brown
Ishmael Fontaine
Henry Wilkins
Luke Baker
Aaron Lawmann
Gene Brown
Tayo Ogedengbe
Daniel Montague
Darryl Lewis
Chi Lewis-Parry
Joel Hewitt
Jordan Gillhespy-Edison
Leon Bernard
Coach: To be announced shortly
The Festival takes place at Canons Leisure Centre in Mitcham (CR4 4HD) at 6:00pm and tickets can be bought on the door from 5:30pm.
Tickets cost just £5 for Adults, £3 for Students/Concessions & Under 16s and £12 for a Family (of 4). You can find more information about the event here on Facebook.
The teams are STACKED, do not miss this! I will be there filming it all so if you do happen to miss it, the highlights will be right here on Hoopsfix :)
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