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For many youth basketball athletes, playing at the collegiate level is a dream; a dream that requires daily grind and determination to overcome constant challenges and tests. The pursuit of getting better is different for everyone, but there's still only one possible mindset—The Only Way Is Through. It's an understanding that to reach the goal of playing at the next level, athletes must stay the path to come out on the other side faster, stronger, and better. 

Under Armour's grassroots basketball season kicks off in April, offering girls and boys the opportunity to not only improve, but also showcase skills and talents en route to their dreams of playing in college. 

Under Armour Basketball has released the list of participating teams in the 2020 Under Armour Association (UAA) Girls and Boys circuits, as well as a schedule of tournaments. The grassroots platform includes Girls UAA, UAA Boys, UA Rise and UA Future, featuring high-level competition among the best youth basketball players in the country at the 17U to 10U levels.

New to Under Armour's travel circuit in 2020 is the recently formed Team Curry. Started by Stephen Curry, Team Curry includes girls (15U, 16U, 17U) and boys (16U and 17U) teams based in Charlotte, N.C. 

GUAA

Scenes from the 2019 GUAA league, including standout players such as Treasure Hunt (right).

The Girls UA Association (GUAA) will provide elite girls travel teams with the same league-style circuit as the boys UAA teams, returning in April with 30 teams at the 17U and 16U level. The teams will participate in 10 regular season games, five final games, and three total league sessions with the Girls UAA Finals taking place in Las Vegas.

This season, GUAA includes the following nationally ranked top players for the 17U, 2021 class:

• No. 1 Azzi Fudd - GTS Fusion (and two-time attendee of Under Armour's SC30 Select Camp)
• No. 10 Talia Von Oelhoffen - Northwest Blazers
• No. 11 Latasha Lattimore - Become One
• No. 13 Raven Johnson - FBC
• No. 19 Jersey Wolfenbarger - Arkansas Banshees

Eight GUAA players from last season were just recently named to the McDonald's All-American Team:

• Kamila Cardova - FBC
• Lexi Donarski - Wisconsin Flight Elite 
• Madison Hayes - FBC
• Olivia Cochran - FBC
• Paige Bueckers - Minnesota Metro Stars
• Sasha Goforth - Arkansas Banshees
• Tehina Pao Pao - San Diego Waves
• Treasure Hunt - FBC

The following class of 2020 players are GUAA alumni with top rankings who also attended Stephen Curry's SC30 Select Camp last summer: 

• Lexi Donarski - Wisconsin Flight
• Paige Bueckers - Minnesota Metro Stars
• Sasha Goforth - Arkansas Banshees
• Tehina Paopao - San Diego Waves
• Treasure Hunt - FBC

2020 GIRLS UAA SCHEDULE 

• GUAA I - Manheim, Pennsylvania at Spooky Nook, April 24-26 
• GUAA II - Westfield, Indiana at Pacers Athletic Center, July 10-12
• GUAA Finals - Las Vegas Convention Center, July 23-25

2020 PARTICIPATING GIRLS UAA TEAMS

• All Alabama Roadrunners - Birmingham, Ala. 
• Arizona Select - Phoenix, Ariz.
• Arkansas Banshees - Fayetteville, Ark.
• Bay State Jaguars - Boston, Mass. 
• BC United - Langley, BC
• Become One - Toronto, ON 
• Below The Rim - Oklahoma City, Okla.
• Canada Elite - Toronto, ON
• Cincinnati Angels - Cincinnati, Ohio
• Colorado Basketball Club - Denver, Colo.
• Comets Girls Basketball Club - Drexel Hill, Pa.
• DC Premier - Washington DC
• Example Sports - Chicago, Ill.
• FBC - Atlanta, Ga.
• FBC Carolinas - Raleigh, N.C.
• Florida Girls Basketball (FGB) - Orlando, Fla.
• Golden City Basketball - San Francisco, Calif.
• GTS Fusion - Church Falls, Va.
• iExcel - New York, N.Y.
• Indiana Flight - Indianapolis, Ind.
• Jam On It - Reno, Nev.
• KC Lady Run GMC - Kansas City, Mo.
• Lady Thrill - Baltimore, Md.
• Michigan Storm Elite - Sterline Heights, Mich.
• Minnesota Fury - Chanhassen, Minn.
• Nebraska Attack - Omaha, Neb.
• New Heights - New York, N.Y.
• Northwest Blazers - Spokane, Wash.
• Power Move - Columbia, Md.
• San Diego Waves Basketball Club - San Diego, Calif.
• South Carolina 76ers - Columbia, S.C.
• Team Brandan Wright - Nashville, Tenn.
• Team Curry - Charlotte, N.C.
• Texas Flight Elite - Houston, Texas
• Texas U - Dallas, Texas
• Team Rio - Jersey Shore, N.J.
• West Coast Elite - Los Angeles, Calif. 
• West Coast Elite Nor Cal - Walnut Creek, Calif.
• West Virginia Thunder - Huntington, W. Va.
• Western PA Bruins - Verona, Pa.
• Wisconsin Flight - Oshkosh, Wis.

UAA

The 2019 UAA league included players such as (left to right on left) Chet Holmgren, Steven Swenson and Jalen Suggs in addition to (left to right on right) Jaden Pierre, Emmanuel Callas and Austin Patterson.

This season, the Boys UA Association (UAA) includes the following top 30 nationally ranked players across both 2021 and 2022 classes:

Class of 2021

• No. 2 Chet Holmgren - Grassroots Sizzle
• No. 10 Nate Bittle - West Coast Elite
• No. 15 Max Christie - Illinois Wolves
• No. 39 Jackson Grant - Washington Supreme
• No. 40 Trey Patterson - Team Rio

Class of 2022

• No. 6 Jaden Bradley - Bmaze Elite
• No. 8 Brandon Huntley - Hattfield- Bmaze Elite
• No. 10 Jarace Walker - Team Thrill
• No. 20 Mark Mitchell - KC Run GMC
• No. 25 Jalen Hood Schifino - Team Charlotte

Three UAA players were recently named to the McDonald's All-American Team:

• Bryce Thompson - OK Run PWP
• Jaden Springer - Bmaze Elite
• Jalen Suggs - Grassroots Sizzle

2020 UAA BOYS SCHEDULE 

• UAA I - Dallas, Texas at Duncanville Fieldhouse, April 17-19
• UAA II - Kansas City, Missouri at HyVee Arena, April 24-26
• UAA III - Cartersville, Georgia at Lake Point Sporting Complex, July 9-12
• UAA Finals - Baltimore, Md., dates to follow 

2020 PARTICIPATING UAA BOYS TEAMS

• Atlanta Xpress - Atlanta, Ga.

• B Maze Elite - Knoxville, Tenn.

• Canada Elite - Toronto, Canada

• DC Premier - Washington, D.C.

• Grassroots Sizzle - Minneapolis, Minn.

• Houston Defenders - Houston, Texas

• Illinois Wolves - Chicago, Ill.

• KC Run GMC - Kansas City, Mo.

• Louisiana Elite - Baton Rouge, La.

• New England Six - Hartford, Conn.

• New Heights - New York, N.Y.

• Ohio C2K - Lima, Ohio

• Philly Pride - Philadelphia, Pa.

• Team Breakdown - Miami, Fla.

• Team Charlotte - Charlotte, N.C.

• Team Curry - Charlotte, N.C.

• Team Rio National - Jersey Shore, N.J.

• Team Thrill - Baltimore, Md.

• TX Hard Work - San Antonio, Texas

• Washington Supreme - Seattle, Wash.

• We R 1 - Newark, Del.

• West Coast Elite - Los Angeles, Calif.

• West Coast Elite NorCal - San Francisco, Calif.

• Wisconsin Playground - Milwaukee, Wis.

UA RISE

Fresh off its Spring 2019 launch, UA Rise returns as a complimentary circuit to the UAA high school aged travel teams, focusing on promoting high-level competition as its core purpose. The league will consist of 132 teams from North America across the 17U, 16U, and 15U age groups and across both girls and boys. During the NCAA-certified live periods in April and July, UA Rise and UAA teams will play under the same roof, creating one of the most powerful recruiting and evaluation showcases for college coaches in the land. Each team will play 12 games during the regular season, with the top 16 qualifiers in each age group battling to progress to the Girls or Boys UA Rise Championship.

UA FUTURE

UA Future also returns in 2020, replicating the UAA model for travel teams at the middle school level, and offering a regional league format for teams in the 14U-10U age groups, leading to the UA Future National Championship on June 26-28 at Kansas City in Missouri. This league sets the new standard for grassroots circuits at this age group by modeling the format of the UAA and becoming the foundation of our youth basketball platform. UA Future will seek to advance the development of young players, teams, and coaches to set the course of grassroots basketball for the near future.