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Dave Telep Congratulatory letter to Tony on 20 years of Success.

The survivor, Tony Squire has kept basketball program going for 20 years. See story By JEFF WHITE TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

Tony Squire Receives Award

Tony Squire receives the Community Service award from the City of Richmond and the Richmond School Board. He add this to a long list of awards including the the Richmond Times-Dispatch’s Richmond Community Service Award he received in 1989.

9-2008 Congratulations Hamilton

Former Squire Vernon Hamilton is one of five camp invites for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He was named to the team's camp roster on Sunday. Hamilton was an All-ACC Defensive Team selection with Clemson in 2005-06 and concluded his career first in school history and sixth in ACC history with 271 steals. See Media Day with Vernon Hamilton Training Camp invitee Vernon Hamilton sits down with Cavaliers play-by-play announcers Fred McLeod and Austin Carr.

Congratulations to six squire players for making the 2008 Southern Invitational All Tournament Team:

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Karron Johnson 6'7 2009 Richmond Squires
Chris Richardson 6'8 2009 Richmond Squires
Akeem Richmond 6'1 2009 Richmond Squires

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Michael Gbinjie 6'8 2011 Richmond Squires
Jake McGee 6'7 2010 Richmond Squires

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Erik Moody 6'1 2011 Richmond Squires

Squire players Karron Johnson (17-u) and Jake McGee (16-u) make Bob Gibbons 2008 Tournament of Champions All Tournament Teams.

SQUIRE players from the class of 2008 make college choices:

Josh Johnson, Randolph Macon College
Jeff White, West Virginia Wesleyan
Tyrell Smith, West Virginia Wesleyan
Ryan Barbosa, Virginia Wesleyan
Doug Harriston, Ferrum College
Macca Garba, Fork Union
Chris Smith, JUCO

Congratulations to the following Squire's team accomplishments during the Spring 2008.

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1st Place North Carolina Super Regional Hosted in Cary, NC Div I
2nd Place Petersburg Elite Showcase

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1st Place Virginia 15 & Under AAU State Championship Div. I

1st Place Charlie Weber Hoopfest

Elite 8 Lebron James Shooting Stars

Final 4 Hoop Group Southern Invitational
2nd Place East Coast Fusion 'Virginia Hoops Festival'

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1st Place East Coast Fusion 'Virginia Hoops Festival'
Final 4 Hoop Group Pittsburgh Jam Fest
Elite 8 Hoop Group Southern Jam Fest

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2nd Place Charlie Weber Hoopfest
Elite 8 Hoop Group Southern Jam Fest

Chesterfield's Sally will play at WKU

Chesterfield native and former Squire player Anthony Sally will continue his college basketball career at one of the nation's hottest mid-major programs, Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green.

Sally, who led Chesterfield Community to the state Group A semifinals, is transferring to WKU from Motlow State Community College, Tenn. The 6-2 point guard averaged eight points, 7.6 assists and 6.3 rebounds this past winter on Motlow's 28-5 squad. He played with Tyree Evans (former George Wythe star), who is transferring to Maryland.

A member of the Sun Belt Conference, WKU's Hilltoppers posted a 29-7 record this season with wins over Drake and San Diego in the NCAA tournament. WKU was eliminated in the Sweet 16 by UCLA.

Martiz Sign Letter-of-intent Close to Home

Former SQUIRE player and Christchurch High School standout Martiz Washington has sign a letter-of-intent to play basketball for D-1 Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia. Martiz is both an excellent basketball player and student. The Suqires program wishes him much success.

Mentoring Squire Players

The Squires have spent numerous hours mentoring its’ youth outside of basketball to assist in developing the complete individual. The program emphasizes the importance of developing positive character and achieving higher education. At the end of the day, our players will have to perform in areas outside of sports. The Squires work to ready its’ youth for a holistic future.

Congrats Erik

Congrats to Squire Erik Moody and his team Benedictine High School for winning the Div I State Championship. Freshman Erik Moody started as a freshman and led his team to a state championship. Erik has demonstrated great poise and represented the Squires Basketball program to the best.

Congrats, Coach Allen & Evangel Christian School

We would like to congratulate Evangel Christian School. Squire Coach Marquis Allen led the Eagles to a State Championship. Coach Allen is definately one of the yourngest, if not the youngest coach in Virginia to ever win a State Championship during his first year. Evangel Chrisitian Eagles had a very successful and dominate season. Making history the Eagles were the first private school in their area to ever win a state championship. Squire players James Ford, Michael Gbinije, Calvin Procise, and George Best were key contributors of to the success of the program. Freshman Michael Gbinije led the team with 26 points, 5 assits, 6 rebounds, and 3 steals. Eight grader James Ford, Jr. added 17 points, 8 assists, 4 rebounds, and 3 steals. Calvin Procise and George Best were also very important to the success of the team providing fierce defense, and rebounding. Calvin 'Cj' Procise also another 8th grader that has played with poise the entire year. George Best was 'Mr. Intangible'. His presence was felt in about every category of the game. Again congratulations to the Evangel Christian Eagles.

Squire player is among nation's best players

Eighth-grader among nation's best The Courtland boys basketball team already boasts one of the top sophomores in the country in 6-foot-8 forward Josh Hairston.

Now their junior varsity team is led by 6-foot-4 eighth-grader Justin Anderson, who is considered by some recruiting services as one of the top five players in his grade level in the country.

Anderson is a Spotsylvania Middle School student. His family had to submit a letter to the Spotsylvania school administration so that he could bypass middle school basketball and play junior varsity.

He's been an asset for the Cougars (11-1), averaging 12.0 points per game and providing highlight-reel dunks that have kept spectators arriving early for varsity contests.

Courtland varsity coach J.T. Nino is already excited about pairing Hairston and Anderson next season.

"I do expect him to see a lot of time on the varsity level next year," Nino said.

Nino said Anderson plays every position for the JV Cougars.

He's also proven he can compete with the elite players around the country.

He was the only eighth-grader in the nation invited to the Fab Frosh All-American Camp in Chantilly last summer.

The Web site hoopsreport .com described Anderson as "very bouncy, aggressive to the bucket, and tries to dunk everything in sight."

"If he continues to develop his overall game, this kid could be special," the Web site reported.

Top Basketball Players & Nutrition

Each and every day numerous athletes fall to injuries due to a lack of nutrition. Are student athletes maintaining a balanced diet? Accord to Murray and Horswill (1977) we need 40 different nutrients to function properly. As an athlete it is important to maintain healthy growth, weight control, healthy immune function, optimize metabolism, and maintain the growth of all tissues. Parents, is your student athlete eating a balanced meal each day to optimize their athletic ability or are they the next injury to happen due to a lack of nutrition? See what nutrition they need and what they should steer clear of.

Top Performers Make NBA

It’s no longer good enough to be the best player in your state or region if you plane on having a career in the NBA and in some cases a college career as well. Foreign player are making sure of that (See Story).

Squire Karron Johnson, a 6-foot-7, 210-pound forward is currently ranked sixth overall in the Class of 2009 by recruiting Web site rivals.com. See what the Observer Sports blog has to say.

SQUIRES 17U (Mac) take the youngest SQUIRE team ever to Las Vegas to participate in the GBOA Challenge of Champions and the 2007 Reebok Summer
Championships.

SQUIRES 17U (Mac) finish 1-1 in the Las Vegas GBOA Challenge of Champions. SQUIRES player 6'8" Karon Johnson was one of the most outstanding players in this tournament
Next up for SQUIRES is the 2007 Reebok Summer Championships that continues in Las Vegas.

SQUIRES 17U (Mac) are 3-1 in the 2007 Reebok Summer Championships. SQUIRES face their biggest test today at 1:00PM PST against Canada's Grassroots Elite AAU.

Congratulations to DeAndre Alston, Erik Moody, Daquan Minngia, Anthony Williams, Quayshad Williams, Justin Anderson, and Lavon Harper as they were selected to attend the top 250 Rising Freshman All-American Camp in Chantilly, VA. Justin was the only 2012 camper in attendance and he was selected for the All-Defensive Team. A special congratulations to Quayshad Williams, and Anthony Williams for being selected to the Top 40 All-Star game. Also, Lavon Harper was selected in the Top 20 All-Star game. This camp featured the best talent in the country. Our kids did a great job, and exemplify the character of our program.

The following sites covered camp, and has results:
http://hstrial-spulliam.homestead.com/fabfrosh.html
http://www.hoopsreport.com/news_view.php?id=277&type=Hoops%20News
http://www.fabfroshcamp.com/7_2_07.pdf
http://www.fabfroshcamp.com/

The SQUIRES BOYS BASKETBALL PROGRAM has parted ways with Mr. Kent Greenway. He is no longer affiliated in any way with the SQUIRES basketball program. We wish him well with his future endeavors.

Numerous Squires players put on another stellar performance at camp (Five-Star Basketball Camp at Hampden-Sydney College). See who attended, who made the all star team and who made special achievements while attending this years Five-Star Basketball Camp.

Former Squires

Chris Johnson’s future at LSU reaches a new level of anticipation in a few months, and there seems to be a plenty of confidence that he could be poised for a breakout season. (see story..)

Brian Wallis (6'9") has committed to play for Costal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. Brian is a 2007 graduate at the Miller school in Charlottesville VA. Miller is currently in summer school at Costal Carolina preparing for the up coming season.

Congrats

Congratulations to the Squires 14U in their performance at the New York Adidas Phenonm camp. Players included: Justin Anderson, Erik Moody, Tyquan Moody, Dakota Youngblood, Tyvon Williams, DeAndre Alston, Quyshaud Williams. Tyquan Moody,Justin Anderson, Quyshaud Williams, Erik Moody, and Tyvon Williams recieved top performer acknowledgements (See More).

Congratulations to Squire coaches Antone Exum, and Hannibal Tuck who has worked hard on turning around Huguenot High School boys Varsity basketball program. After going 4-18 last season the Falcons improved their 2006-07 season 20-4 (See More).

Tony Attends Top Events. (See Photos)

Tony was invited to the Black Coaches Assoc. Meeting in Indianapolis as well as attending the National Association of Basketball Coaches Convention where they presented Darius Hargrove his award along with the Division I winners Adam Morrison and JJ Reddick

Darius' co winner at Division II Turner Trofholz from Univ. South Dakota and Division III player of the year Brandon Adair of Va Wesleyan College.

Awards were also given to Shelden Williams of Duke for Defensive Player of the Year and to Glen "Big Baby" Davis for Pete Newell Big Man of the Year award.
Coach of the year awards were given at this meeting.
Division I: Jay Wright - Villanova
Division II: Mike Leaf- Winona State Univ.
Division III Dave Macedo- VA Wesleyan College
NAIA: Terry Waldrop- Texas Wesleyan Univ.

SQUIREBBALL GOES TO Hawaii

SQIUREBBALL.COM reporters Tony Squire and Kent Greenway traveled to Honolulu Hawaii before Christmas to cover the Rainbow Classic. (See Stormy..)

SQUIRE'S PREP REVIEW

SQUIRE 16U and 17U teams make big impression at the Adidas Super 64 Tournament in Las Vegas, NV. (See Details..)

SQUIRES 16U team finishes 5-1 and advanced to the elite 8

SQUIRES 17U team finishes 2-2.

SQUIRES 15U team wins Virginia AAU Division I State championship with a record of 6-0. SQUIRES advanced to AAU nationals and finish in the top 25 with a record of 4-3.

SQUIRES 14U team places 2nd in the Virginia AAU Division I State tournament. SQUIRES 14U team advance to the AAU nationals, August 1-8 in Orlando, FL (See Details..

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