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Ottawa Sports Pages: Canada Topflight Academy basketball program scoring in many areas
2024-04-07
Ottawa Sports Pages - April 4, 2024
By Martin Cleary
The buzzer has sounded on the eighth season for the Canada Topflight Academy, one of the nation’s top high school preparatory basketball programs.
Head coach and founder Tony House walked off the court proudly for a multitude of good reasons.
While there were no national championship trophies under seat-belt protection to bring home on the front passenger seat of his car this season, the CTA’s three teams were extremely competitive at a variety of levels.
One player has earned a full scholarship to an NCAA Division 1 university and another player is working towards that goal. And a third player has been offered a scholarship from a prominent basketball university, which is the highest university to connect with CTA.
Three student-athletes and one coach earned national all-star status and were able to participate in a game with other players and coaches from across Canada.
A number of CTA alumni played NCAA Division 1 basketball this season, one player became the first to compete in the March Madness tournament, two players have entered the transfer portal to switch to another university for a higher level of play and several players are now on professional team rosters.
And one alum recently talked about his basketball journey at an Indigenous conference.
Read the entire article HERE
By Martin Cleary
The buzzer has sounded on the eighth season for the Canada Topflight Academy, one of the nation’s top high school preparatory basketball programs.
Head coach and founder Tony House walked off the court proudly for a multitude of good reasons.
While there were no national championship trophies under seat-belt protection to bring home on the front passenger seat of his car this season, the CTA’s three teams were extremely competitive at a variety of levels.
One player has earned a full scholarship to an NCAA Division 1 university and another player is working towards that goal. And a third player has been offered a scholarship from a prominent basketball university, which is the highest university to connect with CTA.
Three student-athletes and one coach earned national all-star status and were able to participate in a game with other players and coaches from across Canada.
A number of CTA alumni played NCAA Division 1 basketball this season, one player became the first to compete in the March Madness tournament, two players have entered the transfer portal to switch to another university for a higher level of play and several players are now on professional team rosters.
And one alum recently talked about his basketball journey at an Indigenous conference.
Read the entire article HERE