The Roslyn Booster Basketball Club (RBBC) raced through its best pre-season in 35 years. The RBBC is a not-for-profit community-based basketball program with a specific mission - "to provide participating players with a "booster hoopster" program that combines fun, skills instruction, competition and sportsperson-ship successfully - with the major emphasis on fun..."

The 2002-2003 RBBC season began with an expanded registration process and followed that up with one weekend and two makeup sessions in October for player skill evaluations. Over 650 players participated in this process which is the cornerstone for ensuring balanced teams from a skill level standpoint. In an effort to improve the quality of the coaching/instructional side of the RBBC program, the RBBC ran two separate instructional clinics for RBBC coaches in September and October.

Over 150 RBBC coaches and assistant coaches attended these two "coaches' training clinics" run by guest instructor Ms. Michele Olsen, varsity girls head coach at St. Dominic's High School in Oyster Bay. The clinics successfully addressed coach-player-parent communication, how to teach basketball fundamentals, age/grade appropriate skills drills, proper player pre-game warm-up exercise, sportsperson-ship at all age/grade levels, coaches' practice time management skills and suggestions, and concluded by reminding RBBC coaches that the most important purpose of the RBBC program and their jobs as coaches was to make sure that all players have fun."

The RBBC has also announced several new innovations for the 2002-2003 season. RBBC will be again taking players to watch local college basketball games at both C.W. Post College and Hofstra University. The RBBC has inaugurated a "Booster Hoopster Vendor Sponsor" program to raise additional monies for special projects and to be able to offer financial scholarships when requested by community members. The new initiative has been an overwhelming success. The board would like to publicly thank the 20 local vendors who "stepped up to the foul line" with $500 contributions to support the RBBC program. Finally, for the first time, all league players will be receiving a 5x7 team picture as part of their league registration fee.

The RBBC program has had team practices, player skills clinics and practice scrimmages during the last two weeks in October and the first week in November and are getting ready for the official start of the 2002-2003 RBBC season which began Friday night, Nov. 8. The RBBC Board of Directors encourages the residents of Roslyn and East Williston to come out and watch the RBBC program/games in action.