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. Skill development will consist of focusing on the fundamentals with elite 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 working with fitness trainer(s) if desired during workouts, weightlifting, resistance training, and cardio while leveraging endurance, strength, balance, flexibility, and recovery in workouts. Most days will consist of 3-4 hours of basketball training, and 2-4 hours of workouts, and other personal development areas. The remainder of the day will be centered around eating, resting, recruiting, educational needs and pursuits, as well as leadership classes, book readings and spiritual devotions. When the game-season begins our conditioning is tailored back to prevent injuries.
Mentoring & Leadership Classes:
Each player will receive individualized mentoring, character and leadership training, career and entrepreneurship options. 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 attitudes 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 post-graduate basketball 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 of our program 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, while training them for a Division 1 skill-set experience.
Facilities (Gym, Workout, & Referees):
Here at Experience Academy, we have our workouts and physical training at two locations. In keeping with our 9-month training 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 personal trainer, locker rooms and showers, massage chairs and massage beds, and more.
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. Additionally, plyometric training will be utilized throughout the training program. When student-athletes decide to sign and commit, we will send a Shooting Plan & Workout Plan 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 elite 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.
Elite Basketball Schedule:
Our schedule is one of the best in the nation. We play against the nation’s top ranked opponents such as: IMG Academy, Montverde Academy, Oak Hill Academy, and the military academies of Hargrave, Massanutten, and Fork Union. In addition, we also play against Division 2, Division 3, and NAIA Universities, as well as Junior Colleges to enable student-athletes to get a real experience of the level of competition they are striving after. Referees are hired for home games.
Professional Recruiting Services:
We utilize the best recruiting services in the nation. This is included in the tuition, and the platform will enable student-athletes to email virtually every D1, D2, D3, NAIA, and Junior College coach in the nation. The emails will have confirmation if the college coach has opened the emails, and specifically which college coach opened the email. Student-athletes will be trained on how the recruiting process works. A recruiting profile will be built, and players will be trained on how to effectively communicate with college coaches.
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. This enables loved ones to experience a closeness while your son is away experiencing our 9-month post-graduate basketball training program.
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.
Each player will be interviewed, and the interviews will be part of their exposure. Additionally, 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.
Hotel & Travel Expenses:
Travel expenses will include meals and snacks on the road during away games. Additionally, a passenger van(s) will be used to get players to 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. Additionally, 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. All travel costs are included in the tuition, as well as players will be fed on away games, and during multi-day tournaments. We typically do not feed student-athletes on away games that are less than 150 miles.
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.
ACT Academic Prep with Assistance (If Required):
Education is extremely important to us. We will have personal time set aside for those studying and taking the exam. Professional tutors and assistance will be provided to help navigate the course material in order to provide the best preparation for the ACT exam. The ACT Prep consists of a 6 week in-person course along with personal and professional tutors. An online portal with additional coursework, quizzes and practice tests is also provided that student-athletes will have access to for up to one year. In addition to athletic scholarships, student athletes can also receive academic scholarships based on high GPA & ACT 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 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 tour for the next steps in reserving your place at Experience Academy---Kings Basketball.
