Colonie New York Senior Basketball League

Senior Basketball League

2018-2019 Season
Welcome to CSBL's 2018-2019 season! CSBL Members, Welcome to the 30th Season of the CSBL and my first as your new Commissioner. The CSBL was founded in 1989 on the principles of competition, equality and fraternity. Our founders wanted to form an association of like-minded members who desired a competitive basketball experience that was grounded in equality regardless of skill or age and steeped with mutual respect and camaraderie. As we embark on this new season I do so with reverence and renewed enthusiasm, remembering and honoring our past as we set our sights on the future. What our league, under the leadership of our former commissioners, has built here in Albany over the past three decades is arguably one of the finest Over 50 Full Court Basketeball Leagues in the Eastern US. We sometimes take it for granted but are reminded of just how special our league is when we meet players from other states at the various 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 tournaments that some of our members participate in throughout the year. Our success was not by accident and we owe much gratitude to my predecessors in the Commissioners chair: Dan DiGiacomo, Dan Quinn and Jim Thompson, and the others who paved the way for us. Whatever our current board and I can visualize and accomplish in the years to come is only possible because we will have, to borrow a phrase from Newton and Chartres, stood on the shoulders of giants. This year we will again feature two divisions of play – the Colonie and Albany Divisions – with seven teams of eight players in each division. We will again play an 18 game, balanced schedule with a single elimination, post-season tournament in each division. At our year-end banquet we will acknowledge and award Regular Season and Tournament Champions in each division. Our Board has been hard at work this off season setting an agenda, creating sub-committees, engaging more of our members in league-related activities and gathering feedback from our membership regarding league operations. We will effort to be transparent and responsive to our members and in this spirit, I ask that you feel free to reach out to me or any of our board members if you have a question, concern or comment about our league. See you on the hardwood! Best Regards, Andy Kramarchyk

2018-2019 Season

Welcome to CSBL's 2018-2019 season!

CSBL Members, Welcome to the 30th Season of the CSBL and my first as your new Commissioner. The CSBL was founded in 1989 on the principles of competition, equality and fraternity. Our founders wanted to form an association of like-minded members who desired a competitive basketball experience that was grounded in equality regardless of skill or age and steeped with mutual respect and camaraderie.

As we embark on this new season I do so with reverence and renewed enthusiasm, remembering and honoring our past as we set our sights on the future. What our league, under the leadership of our former commissioners, has built here in Albany over the past three decades is arguably one of the finest Over 50 Full Court Basketeball Leagues in the Eastern US. We sometimes take it for granted but are reminded of just how special our league is when we meet players from other states at the various 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 tournaments that some of our members participate in throughout the year. Our success was not by accident and we owe much gratitude to my predecessors in the Commissioners chair: Dan DiGiacomo, Dan Quinn and Jim Thompson, and the others who paved the way for us. Whatever our current board and I can visualize and accomplish in the years to come is only possible because we will have, to borrow a phrase from Newton and Chartres, stood on the shoulders of giants.

This year we will again feature two divisions of play – the Colonie and Albany Divisions – with seven teams of eight players in each division. We will again play an 18 game, balanced schedule with a single elimination, post-season tournament in each division. At our year-end banquet we will acknowledge and award Regular Season and Tournament Champions in each division. Our Board has been hard at work this off season setting an agenda, creating sub-committees, engaging more of our members in league-related activities and gathering feedback from our membership regarding league operations. We will effort to be transparent and responsive to our members and in this spirit, I ask that you feel free to reach out to me or any of our board members if you have a question, concern or comment about our league. See you on the hardwood!

Best Regards,

Andy Kramarchyk

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