Welcome to Southwestern Ohio Basketball
We have been running the top youth basketball leagues, tourneys and clinics in the entire Midwest for over 25 years. We also offer ball handling and fundamentals clinics, summer camps and AAU programs. In the 2023-2024 season, over 2600 teams from the entire Tri-state participated in our basketball leagues and tourneys and over 30,000 compete in our sponsored events.
We strive to offer top-rated, cost competitive programs to help your child succeed and strengthen their love for the sport.
1995 29 YEARS PROVIDING YOUTH BASKETBALL 2024
Cincinnati Royals
Walt Cordes - 5G
Fred Williams - 6G
ALSO VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT www.cincinnatiroyals.org
The Cincinnati Royals AAU youth basketball organization was founded by Tom Sunderman in 1993, starting with just one boys team. Since then the boys program has grown to have over 20 teams every year ranging in age from 2nd grade through 11th grade. With 41 State Championships, 22 state runner-ups, over 140 National Tournament appearances, and 23 top ten finishes at Nationals, they have become one of the premier boys programs in the country! The boys program also features several non-travel teams to accommodate those developing players of the future.
In 2000 Greg Schaefer and Mike Buckle decided to start up the girls side of the program. Starting with just their one team at 13/u they took 3rd at state and went on to the National Tournament that year. In the girls short history, they had 4 State Championships,5 Runner-ups, and 26 National Tournament appearances, including a 9th place finish in 2005 at the 17/u age division. We had merged with another program but now are back and growing again. We have been back 3 years and have 11 teams already. The girls are continuing to grow to be one of not just Ohio's top programs, but a Nationally recognized program as well. We hope to field up to 15 teams this time next year and continue to add to their great tradition!
The Royals program takes pride not just in the great talent that has played in our program, but also in the quality of experienced coaching we offer. Each coach has much experience in teaching the fundamentals of the game at a very high level. As you will see on our website, our coaches carry strong resumes and provide our players with some of the best coaching in the state.
Eleven years ago we also added our Cincy Kings program, which is a branch of our Royals program. This program was started for kids who don't make one of our top two teams or just can't make the commitment an AAU program requires. We started this because many kids were left aside having to go to other programs, pay $400 - 750 per player and get nothing in return.
1st/2nd Grade Boys Email tom_sunderman@yahoo.com
3rd Grade Boys Email jhavens931@aol.com
4th Grade Boys Email kdiehl48@gmail.com
5th Grade Boys Email jhavens931@aol.com
6th Grade Boys Email tom_sunderman@yahoo.com
7th Grade Boys Email daveduco@hotmail.com 8th Grade Boys Email jhavens931@aol.com
9th Grade Boys Email tom_sunderman@yahoo.com
Email daveduco@hotmail.com
10th Grade Boys NO TEAM
11th Grade Boys NO TEAM
3rd Grade Girls Email ryan.young1114@gmail.com
4/5th Grade Girls Email ukfb73@gmail.com
6th Grade Girls NO TEAM
7th Grade Girls NO TEAM
8th Grade Girls Email mikekimsebastian@gmail.com
9th Grade Girls Email f.mattwilliams@gmail.com
10th Grade Girls NO TEAM
11th Grade Girls NO TEAM
If there isn't a coach listed, email Tom_Sunderman@yahoo.com
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