Provincial Team Program
All athletes are welcome to attend tryouts, regardless of potential financial challenges. Financial support is available for those in need (including athletes who make the team and require support with fees). In order to receive financial support, please complete this form and we will work with individual families to find a solution.
2025 Canada Summer Games Tryout Registration
Canada Games BOYS 2nd OPEN tryout (April 19-20) - CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
April 19-20 Schedule
BOYS (Open Tryout)
Saturday
- Session 1: 9am to 11am
- Session 2: 1pm to 3pm
Sunday
- Session 1: 9am to 11am
- Session 2: 1pm to 3pm
GIRLS (Invite Only)
Saturday
- Session 1: 11am to 1pm
- Session 2: 3pm to 5pm
Sunday
- Session 2: 3pm to 5pm
- Session 1: 11am to 1pm
2025 Provincial Team Program Overview
Each year, Canada Basketball hosts a Nationwide competition for provincial and territorial U15 and U17 teams. Nova Scotia has been proud to field teams for the last 25 years.
In addition, the Canada Games - a national multi-sport event - is held every two years rotating between summer and winter sports. The 2025 Canada Summer Games will take place August 8-24 in St, John’s NL, and BNS will be sending both a U17 girls and boys team.
In a non Canada Games year, BNS would send both U17 and U15 teams to the National competition. This year, there will be a boys and girls U15 tournament and the U17 boys and girls will compete at the Canada Games in place of a Canada Basketball National competition.
Our 2025 Canada Games and U15 coaching staff can be found here.
Provincial Team Program Timeline
TENTATIVE Schedule: Canada Games Teams
Note: Based on identification by Canada Games coaches, select athletes may receive direct invites to participate in the 2025 Canada Games final tryout in May. Players can be selected through the open identification camps in December and April for Canada Games. Players can also be selected through coach identification during their current season.
Canada Games and U15 team athletes will be expected to commit to all training and competition weekends.
Dec 21-22 | Open tryout Boys: December 21 - 9-11am AND 1-3pm, December 22 - 10-12pm AND 2-3:30pm, Girls: December 21 - AND 1-11am-1pm AND 3-5pm, December 22 - 12-2pm AND 3:30-5pm |
March 8 | Open tryout (Citadel High School)(GIRLS ONLY) 11:30am-2pm |
April 19-20 | Open Tryouts (Boys) - Citadel High School Saturday, April 19: -
Session 1: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM -
Session 2: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Sunday, April 20: -
Session 1: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM -
Session 2: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Final Invite (Girls) - Citadel High School Schedule for final GIRLS session to be announced shortly. |
May 31-June 1 | Final invite tryout (boys)(Canada Games Center)(BOYS ONLY) |
June 7-8 | Training (boys and girls) |
June 14-15 | Competition weekend (boys), Training (girls) |
June 20-22 | Training (boys) |
June 28-29 | Competition weekend (girls) |
July 4-6 | Competition weekend (boys and girls) |
July 12-13 | Training (girls) |
July 23-27 | Training (boys) |
August 1-3 | Training camp (boys and girls) |
August 11 | Canada Games begins |
TENTATIVE Schedule: U15 Program Teams
April 12-13 | Open Tryouts Tryout Note: To ensure an efficient tryout process with an appropriate number of athletes in the gym at one time, athletes will be divided into session groups based on alphabetization of last names. Athletes registered will receive confirmation via email of their group session time prior to the tryout weekend. Saturday, April 12 - Zatzman Sportsplex, Dartmouth -
1pm to 3pm - Girls Group 1 -
3pm to 5pm - Boys Group 1 -
5pm to 7pm - Girls Group 2 -
7pm to 9pm - Boys Group 2 Sunday, April 13 - Zatzman Sportsplex, Dartmouth -
11:30am to 1:00pm - Girls group 2 -
1:30pm to 3:00pm - Boys Group 2 -
3:30pm to 5:00pm - Boys group 1 -
5:30pm to 7:00pm - Girls group 1 |
April 26-27 | Final invite tryouts |
May
10-11 | 1st Training weekend |
May
23-25 | 2nd Training weekend (Tentative Media Day May 25th) |
June
7-8 | 3rd Training weekend |
June 21-22 | 4th Training weekend |
July
4-6 | 5th weekend - Annual BNS Scotia Showcase Tournament |
July
17-18 | 6th Training weekend |
July
19-20 | 7th Training weekend - Summerfest Tournament (NB) |
July
25-27 | 8th Weekend - Training camp |
August 4 | National Championships (Ontario) |
Development Training Groups
We are in the process of implementing High Performance programming for U13-U17 athletes. The details are still being solidified and we'll be excited to share the plan for this age group in the coming weeks. We were pleased with the efforts from our coaches and athletes in the 2024 Development Training Group (U16), and are looking forward to build on this for summer 2025.
BNS PTP pillars
The BNS PTP is guided by 5 principles:
- Accountability - Success and shortcomings of our Provincial programs are reported, tracked, evaluated and shared with our stakeholders, to foster an organization of thought leadership.
- Inclusion - Our groups are representative of the best athletes across the entire province, regardless of geography. ALL athletes feel like they belong, regardless of location, skill level, background, or experience. We intentionally target, recruit, and create opportunities for underrepresented groups in Nova Scotia.
- Integrity - We do what we say we’ll do.
- Respect - We treat each other as we would like to be treated, with dignity, understanding, and empathy.
- Trust - We live by our values.
