Tri City Youth Basketball Association

The Tri City Youth Basketball Association (TCYBA) was formed in 1999 and serves Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody, in British Columbia. Currently, there are over 1,200 players, in grades 2 to 9, playing the various divisions in the club. Open to both boys and girls, the TCYBA operates out of school gyms across the Tri City area. Twitter: www.twitter.com/TCYBA

For many years the YMCA ran a youth bas­ket­ball pro­gram for about 300 boys and girls in the Coquit­lam area in a num­ber of ele­men­tary schools. In Novem­ber of 1999, the YMCA made it known that they would no longer be run­ning a youth bas­ket­ball pro­grams. A meet­ing of con­cerned par­ents, coaches, play­ers and vol­un­teers met at the Pine­tree Com­mu­nity Cen­tre with a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Coquit­lam Parks and Leisure and Bas­ket­ball BC in Jan­u­ary of 2000 and dis­cussed how to keep youth bas­ket­ball pro­grams in the area viable. Dur­ing this meet­ing it was dis­cov­ered that the city was run­ning their own bas­ket­ball pro­gram for about 100 youth from grades 8 to 12 and a Jr Griz­zlies pro­gram had been run­ning for two years in the Eagleridge area for about 50 grade 4 and 5 boys. Con­cerned indi­vid­u­als from each group decided to join together and start a new Non-Profit Soci­ety known as the Tri City Youth Bas­ket­ball Asso­ci­a­tion (TCYBA). The first Board of Direc­tors of the TCYBA was formed after the Gen­eral Meet­ing and met every week for many months with on going help and sup­port from the City of Coquit­lam and Bas­ket­ball BC. Griz­zlies pro­gram (now Steve Nash Youth Bas­ket­ball) for all ages, the TCYBA began and con­tin­ues to grow and expand each year.