Welcome to the Greater Severna Park Athletic Association “Green Hornets” Girls’ Basketball program website. Our program is run by an all-volunteer force, so we greatly appreciate their involvement and your support in making the program a success. We try our best to continually improve the program. But most of the good ideas come from the participants in the program, so we are open and receptive to your input and ideas. Please feel free to email your thoughts and ideas to the Commissioner, Bill Giblin at giblinb@verizon.net.

We try very hard to balance the sometimes conflicting goals of developing the most talented players for the local high school programs while including as many girls as possible for their recreational needs. Obtaining gym space in fulfillment of these goals remains our biggest challenge, but we will continue to seek quality options in this area. Our excellent working relationship with the Anne Arundel County Department of Parks and Recreation helps keep us going.

To help alleviate some of the administrative burden on our all volunteer force, we will be looking to increase the use of this website for conducting the business of the program. We encourage you to check back here often for the latest program information, and we thank you for your support.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM: The Girls Basketball program will be run entirely during the winter season for the third year. We will continue to field our competitive “select” county teams that will play in the Anne Arundel County Saturday league as well as playing in the competitive Arbutus league on Sundays. Our club league teams will play other Green Hornet teams in their respective age groups throughout the winter.

No specialized equipment or training is needed to participate in the Green Hornet Girls’ Basketball program; just a pair of basketball shoes, practice attire and the desire to learn and have FUN.

"Team Monitors": Team monitors is a program newly modified for this upcoming winter season. In the past our use of county gym space has been jeopardized when unsupervised players or siblings have caused damage to the facilities. We have tried various programs to address this issue in the past with limited success. Effective starting with the 2006-2007 season, the following rules must be adhered to by all participants in the Green Hornets Girls’ Basketball program or they will risk dismissal from the program:

• No players are to be left unsupervised in the county facilities. If a coach from the player’s team is not present in the building, the player is not to be left without an adult.
• Siblings are not permitted to attend practices or games without adult supervision. Siblings who are roaming the halls, stages or cafeterias of the facilities will be asked to leave the facility with their chaperone.
• In the facilities where the floor is carpeted (e.g. Shipley’s Choice Elementary and Severna Park Elementary), it is to be followed that no food or drink of any kind can be brought into the gym area. Adults and players must leave all food and drink at the door.