Adika Peter-McNeilly’s basketball career connects a Scarborough high school, university gyms, professional clubs overseas and a college coaching bench in Edmonton. It is a reminder that a player’s story does not have to stop when the playing years do.
Peter-McNeilly played at Mother Teresa in Scarborough and with MUMBA in club basketball. His Edmonton Stingers biography records a Division 1 Ontario Basketball Association championship with MUMBA in 2012.
The season · 3 min readStarting a youth league? Start here.A practical checklist for registration, teams, facilities, schedules and the end of the season.
A youth league season is a sequence, and most of the chaos comes from running the steps out of order. Here is the order, and what each step needs before the next one starts.
Registration · 2 min readLess paperwork. A clearer sign-up.Forms, waivers, fees, installments, refunds — how to take the front door of your program online without losing anyone at the door.
Registration is where a program either earns trust or burns it. A parent’s first interaction with your organization is a form and a payment. If that takes ten minutes on a phone and ends with a confirmation, you look like an institution. If it takes a printed PDF and an e-transfer with a password in a second email, you look like a favour they are doing you.
Game day · 2 min readA tournament schedule that holds up.Single elimination, double elimination, round robin, pools — which format fits your event, and how to schedule it without a whiteboard.
Every tournament is a trade-off between three things: total games, fairness, and the clock. Pick a bracket format by deciding which of the three you are willing to spend.
Adika Peter-McNeilly’s basketball career connects a Scarborough high school, university gyms, professional clubs overseas and a college coaching bench in Edmonton. It is a reminder that a player’s story does not have to stop when the playing years do.
Peter-McNeilly played at Mother Teresa in Scarborough and with MUMBA in club basketball. His Edmonton Stingers biography records a Division 1 Ontario Basketball Association championship with MUMBA in 2012.
The season · 3 min readStarting a youth league? Start here.A practical checklist for registration, teams, facilities, schedules and the end of the season.
A youth league season is a sequence, and most of the chaos comes from running the steps out of order. Here is the order, and what each step needs before the next one starts.
Registration · 2 min readLess paperwork. A clearer sign-up.Forms, waivers, fees, installments, refunds — how to take the front door of your program online without losing anyone at the door.
Registration is where a program either earns trust or burns it. A parent’s first interaction with your organization is a form and a payment. If that takes ten minutes on a phone and ends with a confirmation, you look like an institution. If it takes a printed PDF and an e-transfer with a password in a second email, you look like a favour they are doing you.
Game day · 2 min readA tournament schedule that holds up.Single elimination, double elimination, round robin, pools — which format fits your event, and how to schedule it without a whiteboard.
Every tournament is a trade-off between three things: total games, fairness, and the clock. Pick a bracket format by deciding which of the three you are willing to spend.
