The Tribune

YOUNG Bahamian basketball prospects will have an opportunity to display their skillset to coaches, scouts and various programmes over the course of the next few days.

International Basketball Academy (IBA) Bahamas and Get Me Recruited (GMR) are hosting the 2016 “Super 60 Showdown Bahamas” at the DW Davis Gym June 16-18. The showcase features some of the most highly touted Bahamian high school players locally and abroad.

IBA Bahamas has impacted the local basketball scene in its brief history led by its director Denycko Bowles, who also serves as the head coach of the Doris Johnson Mystic Marlins.It is the first international branch of the IBA programme.

Last June, IBA Bahamas hosted 60 student athletes to its annual combine summer camp which hosted various programme representatives from John Hopkins, Fisk University, Cape Fair Christian High School, Hallandale High school and Lamont Taylor, the CEO of GetMeRecruited.com.

Taylor returns this offseason to officially partner with IBA for the Super 60 Showdown.

Get Me Recruited is a Raleigh, North Carolina-based company whose goal is to connect high school players and college coaches through the mission statement: “To be personally involved in the collegiate basketball recruiting process one recruit at a time.”

Also providing training at the showcase will be Tim Fields, skill instructor at John Lucas Enterprises.

The showcase will range from junior high schoolers to post grad unattached. In addition to the summer programmes, IBA has participated in the Summer of Thunder and travelled to AAU tournaments in the US.