About Force Basketball

Force Basketball is the leading AAU program for girls in Central Oregon, serving elementary, middle, and high school age groups. Our teams compete at a high level across the Pacific Northwest and West Coast, providing opportunities for players to develop their skills and reach their goals. Join our Force Family and let us help you accomplish your dreams on and off the court!

Development Philosophy

The primary purpose of CO Force is to help each player grow in both skill and knowledge of the game. We aim to provide coaching and experiences which prepare players to play at the collegiate level. We base everything we do on foundational fundamentals and will not cut corners to try and win, rather, we will choose the long view of development to support players.

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Offensive Philosophy

Our goal is to teach and use offensive principles that allow athletes to experience both structured and free flowing styles of play. We utilize motion principals and reads as well as structured sets and entries in our system with a variety of offensive actions. We also teach essential components of transition basketball and gear our training and coaching towards a faster paced model of play whenever possible. Players are taught the essentials of spacing, movement, angles and timing in all aspects of the offensive game

Defensive Philosophy

Our goal is to build rock solid foundational man to man defensive habits. We expect players to be able to play with both physical and mental toughness at all times. Our defensive man to man principles are utilized in a variety of full and half court strategies. Communication, positioning, anticipation and understanding the strengths of the player being guarded and adjusting, are all concepts we continually reinforce. We will also use a selected variety of zone press strategies at times and help players learn the correlation between man to man principals and aggressive zone press principals.

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Player Development Philosophy

Our goal is to develop the most well rounded players possible. In an era of positionless play, we will train each player to play on the perimeter and in the post. Most players will play 2-3 positions in our system and our most versatile players will play all five positions intermittently, while having a primary 1-2 positional roles. We will work through a variety of training and team experiences to build solid individual offensive skills and defensive skills while also ensuring players understand the finer points of both team defense and offensive execution.

Collegiate Opportunities

We will work to support all players who want to play collegiately. The design of our program top to bottom is to develop players who want to play at the collegiate level. This includes frequent feedback, connecting them with college coaches and supporting their recruitment process through honest and integrity driven advocacy.

Financial Principles and Philosophy

CO Force is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Our goal is to keep the cost of participation at the lowest and most reasonable price possible. Our funding sources include, corporate and private donors, grants and player fees. Costs will be released by development season and are largely dependent on the amount of outside/corporate funding support we are able to secure.

Join The Team

If you are interested in being considered as a player in our program, please Contact us today!

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Core Values -

Selflessness - We will expect our athletes and coaching staff to embody a “we before me” attitude.
Character - We will expect our athletes and coaches to treat everyone with the utmost respect and dignity as well as make sound moral and ethical decisions.
Toughness - We expect our athletes to embody both mental and physical toughness and our coaches to teach how to develop these traits.
Competitiveness - We expect our athletes and coaches to compete at their highest possible level at all times.
Coachability - We expect our athletes and coaches to be consummate learners, always working to learn more and better themselves.

Player Expectations -

Players are expected to be on time and attend all activities, unless they are ill, have a family emergency, or have an in-season sport obligation.
Players are expected to be respectful and supportive of coaches, officials and fellow Force players at all times.
Players are expected to adhere to all character expectations, including, but not limited to, using respectful language with coaches, teammates and officials, not using any illicit drugs/alcohol, following the expectations of their coaches at all times.
Players are expected to keep themselves in top physical condition so they can perform their best for their team at all times.

Parent Expectations -

Parents are expected to ensure players are at all activities on time.
Parents are expected to maintain the role of parent and not coach the players at any time both during practices and during a game.
Playing time will never be discussed with a parent. This is a player and coach conversation only.
Parents are expected to represent the program with class in all venues. This includes not engaging with officials, other teams or other teams' parents.

Coach Expectations -

Coaches are expected to adhere to the same attendance guidelines as players.
Coaches are expected to be ethical and moral role models and mentors for players.
Coaches are expected to game plan and train based on the Force system philosophies and strategies.
Coaches are expected to give respectful and transparent feedback to players.
Coaches are expected to be advocates for players throughout the recruiting process.