DATES & SITES (all Sundays) How Many Sessions? One Event $94.00 USD Two Events $160.00 USD Three Events $210.00 USD Year 10 of Empire State Takeover… time to take something that’s been around since Year 1 and bring it to another level. The Fall Showcase – first held in October 2015 at Skidmore – is … More The 10th Annual EST Fall Showcase… SERIES
The first ever Empire State Takeover one-day showcase event: the inaugural Fall Showcase, which featured all of two dozen players at Skidmore in October 2015. Things have changed a bit since then. Nearly a decade since the humble beginnings, the number of EST event participants that have moved on to play at the collegiate level … More Fall Showcase Set To Expand in Year 10
June 21 – the back end of a week of record breaking heat, coincidentally enough (not really, EST lifers know the temperature rarely cooperates with me) – brought Year 7 of the EST Summer Kickoff back to Albany. The 2024 edition, once again a sellout plus one of 101 athletes, brought well-established & still rising … More “New” Faces Make Impression in EST Debut: Summer Kickoff Review (Part I)
*** This event is currently AT CAPACITY. All registration submissions will go to the wait list, which will likely be tapped into as space opens up in the days leading up to the event. *** The WNY Warm-Up featured a record high of 92 participants and baselines filled with over 30 college coaches… now it’s … More 7TH ANNUAL EST SUMMER KICKOFF
Since its inception in 2018, the Middle School Combine quickly grew into being one of my favorite days of the year. Many of today’s high school standouts & current collegiate players at all levels have competed & introduced themselves through the only annual EST event solely dedicated to rising middle school talent. The event got … More 6TH ANNUAL EST MIDDLE SCHOOL COMBINE
*** THIS EVENT IS CURRENTLY AT CAPACITY. SUBMITTING REGISTRATION WILL ENSURE YOUR PLACEMENT ON THE WAIT LIST. IF SPACE OPENS UP, I’LL REACH OUT IN THE ORDER OF FORM SUBMISSION WITH FURTHER INFO! *** I think we can begin to call this annual tradition now. 2022 started it off, 2023 kept it moving, and by … More 3RD ANNUAL EST WNY WARM-UP
Tuesdays are always busy, but this week, it was packed. Skip the small talk, straight to the goods! THE GAMES (for the record – Sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10 are featured in this particular ‘games’ segment – and we’ll work upward in numerical order) The game of the night in the 518 … More The EST Review/Preview (January 30-31)
Setting the Scene: The powers that be decided to start the season with some heat when they put Catholic High & Academy together at the jump. 8 weeks later, it was time to run it back. Both teams have made their share of noise since that season opener, a 68-64 overtime thriller in Mechanicville that … More Crusaders Keep Bears at Bay for Quality Road W
Mondays are getting a little busier now that havoc was finally wreaked on the schedule with mid-January weather. Straight to the stuff that caught my eye in the day that was! THE GAMES More games than usual in my home base of Section 2, but not much that moved the needle. I stopped in for … More The EST Review/Preview (Jan 29-30)
One of the best days of the year is the one that I get to post an aerial view of the Hudson Valley Community College gym on all social platforms (which in 2023 means “X” instead of Twitter and even Threads too!). That day this year was November 13, the official first day of the … More Hoopers’ Holiday: The 2023-24 Season Begins in New York