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The tournament registration forms are not the ballers comp session registration. Sitka players do not register your child individually for this tournament unless you are instructed to.




2025 Tournament Registration and Info
Registration is open. Coaches or managers should register and pay the $100 fee for their team. Once a team is registered, the coach will receive a team code to provide to their team. This team code will be needed for individual player registrations.

2025 Dates
Our annual Hoops and Herring tournament is scheduled for April 4th-6th, 2025. Games for out of town teams start Friday after school and end Sunday with enough time to catch the evening flight out of Sitka. If teams choose to arrive Thursday, let us know and we will try to get games scheduled for Thursday night to spread your games out.

Divisions
Grades 3rd-12th. We have changed brackets for 2025 as shown below. Adjustments may be made depending on the number teams in a division. If we deviate from this, we will reach out to impacted teams.

  • E: division: 4th & Under
  • D division: 5th & Under
  • C division: 6th & Under
  • B division: 7th & Under
  • A division: 8th & Under/C team
  • High School JV
  • High School Varsity
We realize that many smaller communities in Alaska have competitive basketball players but may not have enough kids to form a complete team. If there is a kid in this situation, please let us know and we can start a list of kids looking to play. Once we get enough interest, we can reach out to those families to form a mixed community team.

Games
Our round-robin format differs from most tournaments. When divisions are large enough, we use 20-minute games during pool play, ensuring that all teams in a group compete against one another. After round-robin play, teams advance to elimination brackets, where games are played at full length. This structure guarantees that each team gets at least four full-length games’ worth of playing time.

There will be exceptions, but generally 3rd grade through middle school plays at Blatchley Middle School and high school plays at Mt. Edgecumbe High School.  For 2025 most of the middle school girls games will be played at Sitka High School.

Registration
Tourney Fee $100. Online registration is expected to open in February and will close a few weeks before the tourney starts. Players are no longer required to be AAU members.

Accommodations
A limited number of school housing spots are available. This is typically sleeping on a gym or classroom floor and available Friday and Saturday night. There is a $50 fee and a $200 refundable cleaning deposit. Please let us know if you are interested.

Discounts at local hotels are available for incoming teams. Please reach out to us for details.