The Triangle Knights Basketball Academy facilitates positive interactions for young people in the Triangle area including Durham, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Hillsborough, Roxboro, Siler City and other surrounding communities in central North Carolina. The goals and objectives of  The Triangle Knights Basketball Academy are to provide young women the opportunity to develop and support personal objectives as well as those of the club. "Building Character Through Athletics" is not just our motto. It is the very foundation that The Triangle Knights Basketball Academy is built on.  Through our program these young people are guided through the steps to achieve these goals while mastering valuable skills such as commitment, discipline, respect and loyalty. Academic excellence is a key element of the Triangle Knights objectives. We encourage individuals to seek to achieve their personal best by capturing small victories instead of big disappointments. Coaches serve as mentors for our participants. Adult interaction is positive and consistent. Players are provided exposure to cultural and historical sites  as they participate in tournaments around the state. They sometimes compete outside of North Carolina, giving some the opportunity to visit and learn about places they've never been before. These tournaments also provide excellent exposure for the girls to be seen by  college and professional coaches and scouts. Parents and volunteers serve on Management Teams and are key to the success of our programs. The tireless effort of our volunteer staff is always amazing! Our program is founded on good people doing good things for the community. Please join us this year in supporting our youth. The Triangle Knights Basketball Academy is a non-profit 501[c]3 organization. All financial support comes from fundraisers and sponsorships.  Donations made to our organization may be tax deductible. Contributions will help support all aspects of the team such as basketballs, water bottles, team bags, training equipment, uniforms, shoes, warm-ups, travel expenses,  and will also aide in the learning experience provided to players. For information on how you can help support our program or for more information about our organization please contact us. A Coaches Philosophy by Coach Brian Robinson of the Winston-Salem Stealers, Inc. AAU Basketball Teams (used by permission) Coach Robinson's Coaching Philosophy and Style My coaching philosophy is simple. I do what is best for the team. I coach basketball because I love the kids and I love the game. I want at all times to be prepared and to place my teams in the best possible position to win ball games. I will not tolerate bad attitudes just to win games. Basketball will stop one day and a good attitude is necessary to function in society, so, I don't reward bad attitudes at a young age. I give everyone an equal opportunity in practice to get better and learn the plays that we run. It takes listening, retention and transferring skills taught to earn a playing spot. Those that accomplish those tasks at a consistently high level will get the majority of the playing time. If a player takes issue with her playing time her choice is to strive to improve or find another team. AAU is like play at the high school level, and if done correctly, requires players to "bring something to the table" in order to compete. Those who feel everyone should receive an equal amount of playing time should, perhaps, consider a YMCA or recreational league as an alternative. With me , playing time is a privilege , not a right. Playing time is also not up for debate. AAU requires a high level of basketball talent and skill and the goal is to win. Like a successful business, the better jobs go to those who earn them, who have worked a long time on achieving success, who have talent they have developed, and who, in the end, are the ones responsible for the company's success. I give kids the opportunity to get better and to be successful not only at basketball but through basketball to also be successful in their lives. When it is all said and done, the relationship built through good times and bad times is what's left. How a player looks back on their experience by playing for me is important. Everyone , boy or girl , that has suited up for me is under my umbrella. I love them all. Whether they finished on good terms, as the majority, or on not so good terms, the minority. I coach for the kids. I do AAU for the kids. Not because I have to, but because I love to. Our program has grown because of endless, endless hours of work put in for 5 1/2 years. Some outsiders say that we are good because we recruit. I can honestly say that that is not the case, and that I have personally asked 3 players in 5 1/2 years to come play for us. I don't operate that way because once you get into promising players things to get them to come play for you, you lead them to false pretenses and they tend to take things for granted. It takes a special player and , more importantly, a special person, for me to ask them to come play for us. It also should take a lot more than what one parent says to another parent for someone to choose us if they have been with another team. That is a poor excuse. What makes us any different than another program? I am proud of the growth of the program and all of the wonderful support that I get from the majority of the parents. I know that word-of-mouth by them to others has helped the program grow. It is because of this, plus the hours of hard work that I can say that I will never apologize for trying to run a first-class organization. AAU is a lot of fun. It keeps me sharp for the high school season and it allows me to provide many with the opportunity to get better before for their school season starts. I think basketball is wonderful to teach and wonderful to coach. It takes on so many aspects of life: from the adjustments that have to be made on the fly, to having to deal with many different people in a positive manner, to learning how to win graciously and how to lose even more graciously. How to handle success, how to not give up, how to compete for your position and keep it. How to handle criticism from friends, how to handle it from outsiders. How to pick yourself up when things aren't going so great and how to be mentally tough. Basketball offers so much to so many. That's why it is a great sport to teach. I love it and I am truly, truly alive when I am coaching in practice or in a game. Want more??? Coach Robinson is putting the finishing touches on his book called: My Lucky Break. It is about how he got into coaching, his beliefs in and out of coaching and how life's little roads have brought him to this point . It should be finished by September, early October, and out around Christmas. [Thanks Coach]