Our Services
Our Services
Coaching, Training, and Skill Development:
Our coaching staff are highly qualified professionals who love the game of basketball! Coaching will be specialized to give both individualized as well as team training. The coaching staff will be personally involved in your son’s growth and skill development. Players can also ask the coaching staff for specific workouts and rebounding time. Skill development will consist of focusing on the fundamentals with training in: dribbling, ball handling, passing, shooting, playing styles, defense, defense styles, running plays, team cohesion, basketball IQ, basketball psychology, etc. A strong emphasis is placed on mastery of current skills and position the player is best suited for.
Training will consist of workouts, weightlifting, resistance training, and cardio while leveraging endurance, strength, balance, flexibility, and recovery in workouts. The days will be centered around practice training, eating, resting, recruiting, educational needs and pursuits, as well as leadership classes, book readings and spiritual devotions. When the game-season begins our workouts are typically tailored back to prevent injuries.
Mentoring & Leadership Classes:
Each player will receive mentoring, character and leadership training, career and entrepreneurship options via personality tests and coaching. The game of basketball is not all about skill and talent, it is also about the heart and mind. Here at Experience Academy, we prioritize the development of the attitude and mindset of success and excellence. This is a 9-month basketball program, which means there is time for us to focus on the key areas that need to be addressed. Our program is unique, because we will have leadership classes, book readings, and spiritual devotions to help form a well-rounded young adult who is able to face the world with boldness. We take this part of the process very seriously, because college coaches are looking for high character players. Not every player accepted into our program will receive a Division 1 full scholarship. Therefore, we seek to develop and equip the whole individual (player) for their long-term success.
Facilities (Practice Facility & ETSU Facility Access):
Here at Experience Academy, we have our workouts and physical training at two locations. In keeping with our 9-month immersion program the training will consist of focusing on weightlifting, resistance training, and cardio while leveraging endurance, strength, balance, flexibility and recovery during workouts. At the workout location, student-athletes will have access to a College Environment on ETSU Campus at the CPA Center which will include a full college workout area, a part time trainer, locker rooms and showers, swimming pool, and 4 basketball courts that are typically open from 6am to 11pm Monday through Sunday.
At our practice facility there is a Vertimax machine that players can utilize to increase their athletic performance, which helps to improves speed, explosive power, agility, and vertical jump. When student-athletes decide to sign and commit, we will send over in the Welcome Packet - 2 Shooting Plans + 2 Workout Plans + Vertical Jump Program for them to be doing before arrival.
The players will push through boundaries and achieve new goals:
The strength and conditioning program will be based on an initial physical evaluation at the workout facility for each player with a focus of:
Increasing flexibility and joint stability
Increasing core strength and balance
Increasing power output
Increasing overall strength and improving body composition
Improving lateral and linear agility and reaction
Increasing cardiovascular capacity and general conditioning
Injury prevention
HIIT – High Intensity Interval Training
On-court basketball skill training:
Strength and Conditioning: stamina, power, speed, agility, flexibility, injury prevention
Team practice and plays
Games against high-level players on nationally ranked teams
Ball handling
Shooting
Offensive scoring moves
Defense
Stat Keeping:
We use professional services to maintain accurate records for stat keeping via Hudl.
Elite Basketball Schedule:
Our schedule is one of the best in the nation. We play against the nation’s top ranked opponents which can include Military Academies, nationally ranked High Schools, D1 & D2 Junior Colleges (JUCOs), as well as Division 2, Division 3, and NAIA Universities JV Developmental Teams. Referees are hired for home games.
Professional Recruiting:
We train our student-athletes on the recruiting process and give details on what college coaches expect and look for when recruiting. We write emails for the players that they will be sending to college coaches, as well as recommendation letters. Guys will have Recruiting Tips, as well as questions to ask college coaches when speaking to them. We will have several team meetings discussing the recruiting process.
Professional Photography & Video Services:
Here at Experience Academy, we have high-quality cameras that provide superior photo and video quality. This gives parents and loved ones the opportunity to watch videos and games that are played at your leisure. The games will also be uploaded to YouTube and other online platforms to ensure maximum platform exposure. This enables a web presence for them to point to in their future, as well as a personal connection for you to watch your son in action. We also hire professional photographers and videographers who will produce high quality media, highlights, and mixtapes for your son to assist in their exposure and branding profile.
Professional Exposure:
Our professional exposure is part of the flagship experience your son will have at our program. With the advent of NIL (Name, Image, Logo) into the world of college sports, we hire professional photographers and videographers to assist student-athletes to get the content they need to build their own brand. This will enable student-athletes to have excellent content for their recruitment and placement that college coaches can use to evaluate you.
We help your son build up his social media accounts, and will teach him how to effectively be involved in the recruiting process. Our professional photographers and videographers will come to practices and games, which will assist in building the profile for your son whether through interviews or other content.
***At Experience Academy you will have the option to purchase all of the content for your own personal records. This includes photography and videography. You will receive a download link to receive all of the content during Mid-Season and End of Season.
Hotel/Airbnb Expenses:
Travel expenses will include hotels and/or Airbnb during overnight tournaments, showcases, circuits and invitationals. Additionally, a passenger van(s) will be used to get players to and from practice, workouts, and games (home & away), team meetings, leadership classes and book readings. Drivers may be hired from time to time to ensure players arrive safely to their destinations. We prefer that no player use his personal vehicle for travel to training and games, but to travel and arrive and leave as a team. On certain away-games there will be times when the players will be staying in hotels, or Airbnb, which may be a time of room sharing.
Insurance:
Various types of insurance are utilized to ensure maximum safety. Passenger insurance and sports insurance are all part of our program that help protect the safety and well-being of your son.
Gear:
Gear bags, uniforms, and exclusive Experience Academy gear is provided along with other material in the gear bag that student-athletes will need throughout the program. We will have various competitions throughout the season which enables players to win other gear.
Replacement Courses & ACT Academic Prep with Assistance (If Required):
Education is important to us. We will have personal time set aside for those studying and taking the ACT exam. Professional tutors and assistance will be provided to help navigate the course material in order to give the best preparation for the ACT exam. The ACT Prep consists of personalized work with professional tutors.
We are affiliated with a High School which allows student-athletes to replace a couple of their courses even after they have graduated from High School. In additional to athletic scholarships, student athletes can also receive academic scholarships based on high GPA & ACT/SAT scores. This is important because not all college scholarship offers are full rides, so we encourage all players to maximize the time they have at our program to best position themselves for additional academic scholarship opportunities.
Certificate of Completion:
Upon the completion of our program, you will receive a certificate of completion with posted awards (based upon Season & Program Stats) that have been earned.
*For details on our program packages and tuition investment - please complete the application and complete the video interview, and schedule a family meeting and tour for the next steps in reserving your place at Experience Academy---Kings Basketball.