Welcome to CYO Basketball
About CYO Basketball
CYO Basketball provides Youth Basketball in the Utica, NY area and it is a program of Catholic Charities Oneida/Madison County. CYO provides youth the opportunity to play basketball in a league that promotes a positive culture that is safe and where there is respect between all involved including players, coaches, fans, officials, and CYO Staff.
CYO 2025/2026
Start date 12/19/2025
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CYO Basketball 2025/2026 SEASON: All games this season will be held at the JCC in Utica, NY on Fri and Sat.
CONTACT:
(315) 796 6133
CYO start date: Fri December 19th 2025 ending Fri March 13th 2026.
TEAM Applications now open. 2025/2026 new players not affiliated with a team please have a parent/guardian email dgeorge@ccharityom.org. Please know that players that play school basketball from 9th grade - 12th grade are not allowed to play CYO. CYO has 3 leagues for 6-8th graders, 9th-12th Graders, and a new 2nd - 4th grade biddy bball division for this 2025/2026 season.
SPORTSMANSHIP: SPORTSMANSHIP, RESPECT, & SAFETY ARE CRUCIAL TO CYO. WE PLAY WITHIN THE RULES. NO INTENTIONAL FOULS. NO TRASH TALKING. NO VERBAL HARASSING ANYONE AT ANY TIME. WE PLAY HARD AND TOUGH DEFENSE AND PLAY GOOD BASKETBALL BUT WE DO SO WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF THE RULES AND WITHIN THE BOUNDS OF FAIR PLAY. IF YOU GET FOULED OR A REF CALLS SOMETHING YOU DON’T AGREE WITH, YOU DON’T RESPOND ON THE COURT. YOU LET YOUR COACH KNOW AND ALLOW YOUR COACH THE OPPORTUNITY TO RESPOND. IF PARENTS HAVE CONCERNS PLEASE LET COACHES AND/OR CYO STAFF KNOW. THERE IS NO REFEREEING FROM THE BENCH OR FROM THE STANDS.
THANK YOU TO St. Elizabeth Ann Seton from Syracuse, NY for allowing us to use their above player contract.
Important Information
2026 High School TEAMS:
1 Catholic Thunder (Gold)
2 Kings Pro (Purple)
3 Kings College (Maroon)
4 Kings G League (White)
5 New Hartford - Tilly's (Red)
6 Mt. Carmel/St Anthony's (Black)
7 St Pauls (Royal Blue)
8 Sole Solution (Carolina Blue)
9 The Marks (Celtic Green)
10 UCD
11 Pearl Street
12 Hope Chapel AME Zion Church
CYO Jr High Teams:
UCD
St Pauls
Red Knights
St Johns NH
Your team here: Contact dgeorge@ccharityom.org
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High School games will be on Friday and Saturday mornings at the JCC in Utica, NY.
Jr. High games mostly Fri night game times
The little kids division (grades 2-4) every Fri at 5 PM
contact dgeorge@ccharityom.org for a spot
GAMES MUST START ON TIME.
ARRIVE EARLY & READY TO PLAY
Admission cost $2.00 (13 and under free, players and coaches are always free)
All coaches/volunteers 18 and over must attend Safe Environment Training and receive a background check. Please click link for more info on an upcoming training.
Schedules
Schedules are subject to change pending weather/snow day cancellations.
UPCOMING GAMES:
Opening night Friday Dec 19, 2025
CYO DATES 2025/2026 SEASON
12/19/25 Opening night CYO
Biddy Bball 5 PM
St Pauls Jr High vs UCD Jr High 620 PM
St Pauls High School vs UCD High School 730 PM
Kings Pro vs Catholic Thunder 845 PM
12/20/25
Hope Chapel AME Zion vs Sole Solution 850 AM
Red Knights Jr. High vs St Johns NH Jr High
Pearl Street vs Tillys 11 AM
The Marks vs Mt Carmel 1215 PM
1/2/26
1/3/26
1/9/26
1/10/26
1/16/26
1/17/26
1/23/26
1/24/26
1/30/26
1/31/26
2/6/26
2/7/26
2/27/26 (Last regular season games)
2/28/26 (Last regular season games)
3/6/26 CYO playoffs
3/7/26 CYO playoffs (final 4 games)
3/13/26 CYO Championship Games (Last CYO Date)
Please check out CYO partner Burton Basketball for year round Basketball Training and Leagues:
Sign up at www.burtonbasketball.com
Click below for CYO Schedule & link to NOAA weather.
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CYO 2024
CYO HISTORY (we appreciate you!)
CYO 2025 JR High Division (grades 6 - 8)
1 UCD 9 - 0 (regular and playoff Champions)
2 Mt Carmel 5 - 4 (split regular season game with St Pauls won by 10)
3 St Pauls 3 - 5 (split regular season with Mt. Carmel won by 6)
4 Red Knights 0 - 8
JR High MVP Jared Holmes
JR High Rookie of the Year Markyle Vaughan
2025 CYO High School Division
High School Division 2025 (grades 9 - 12)
FINAL RANKINGS
1 Kings Pro 11 - 0 (regular and A playoff Champions)
2. UT Elite 8 - 2
3 JCC 8 - 3
4 Boro' Blazers 6 - 5
5 UCD 5 - 7
6 Tilly's Tots 6 - 6
7 G League 4 - 7
8 Kings College 3 - 7
9 St Pauls 2 - 9
10 Catholic Thunder 1 - 9
2025 Top 10 Scoring rank (4 game minimum rankings through 2/8/2025)
Scoring rank
1 Tyler Thorngren 238 total points 26.4 scoring average
2. Dan Marinich 200 total points 20.0 scoring average
3. Thomas Wameling 117 total points 16.7 scoring average
4. Jayovani Santalucia 146 total points 16.2 scoring average
5 Jon Horning 169 total points 15.3 scoring average
6 Qwaze' Cubbage 134 total points 14.8 scoring average
7 Devine Rone 118 total points 14.7 scoring average
8. Isiah Websy 121 total points 13.4 scoring average
9 Jah'zir Ellis 65 total points 13.0 scoring average
10 Desmond Brown 80 total points 11.4 scoring average
2025 CYO Sportsmanship Winners! Congratulations to these players picked by their coaches:
Sean Miles Kings Pro
Nyhiem McCoy Kings College
Mohieldin Musa Kings G League
Desmond Brown UT Elite
Baltazar ValeDegato JCC
Jahmere Neal UCD
Lucas Tucker Boro Blazers
Ben Fiorentino Tilly's Tots
Jon Horning St Pauls
Cody Grabinski Catholic Thunder
Luca Carone Mt Carmel
Jimmy Smith Jr. UCD
Antonio Hensel St Pauls
Dante Parrish Red Knights
Congratulations to Tilly's Tots and JCC - 0 team technicals for the 2025 season!
CYO MVP Jayovani Santalucia
CYO Offensive Player of the Year Tyler Thorngren
CYO Defensive Player of the Year Devine Rone
CYO Rookies of the year Jon Horning & Q'waze Cubbage < CYO skills champion
2025 HIGHLIGHTS
Tyler Thorngren High school league leading season high 37 points as of 2/5/25
Most dunks (including a windmill in a game): Devine Rone
2nd most dunks in the league: Thomas Wameling
7 3 pointers in 1 game: Koury Brown
7 3 pointers in 1 game: Jayovani Santalucia
Kings Pro (undefeated through the regular season 9 - 0)
Graham Jenkins 90% from the Free Throw line 9 for 10.
Tyler Thorngren 18 points in 1 quarter
Dan Marinich 20 foul shot attempts in 1 game (this could be a record for CYO?)
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2024 CYO CHAMPIONS!
Division 1 CYO High School CHAMPIONS: UT Elite
Division 2 CYO High School CHAMPIONS: CHROMIES
CYO Jr. High CHAMPIONS: UCD
High School Division:
Rankings & Records
Division I
1. UT Elite 8 - 0 (final record #1 seed locked up)
2. UCD 7 - 2
3. Kings A 7 - 2
4. Northend Pizza/St Pauls 6 - 3
Division II
5. Chromies 5 - 4 (#5 seed)
6. Thunder 3 - 6 (#6 seed)
7. JCC 3 - 6 (#7 seed)
8. Spartans 3 - 6 (#8 seed)
9. Kings B 1 - 8 (#9 seed)
10. St Pauls 0 - 8 (#10 seed)
2024 SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD WINNERS:
JCC: Ravi Rao
Northend/Salutes: Colin Bumbalo
UT Elte: Nate Holmes
Mt. Carmel/Team Airwell: Ryan Hulser
St. Pauls: Rayan Syed
Chromies: Tom Vitagliano
St. Pauls: Mike Willis & Max Blando
Kings A: Alexis Norales
Kings B: Evan Thomas
UCD: Antoine Butler
UCD: Alex 'AJ' Thompson
Spartans: Connor Adsit
Red Knights: Lucas Pylinski
Thunder: Justin Murphy
CYO 2024 MVP HIGH SCHOOL:
Tyshawn Murph UCD
CYO 2024 MVP JR HIGH:
UCD Jamari Henderson
CYO 2024 OFFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
UT Elite Bryan Sunday
CYO 2024 DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR:
Omar Osman Kings A
CYO Rookies of the Year:
1. Da'vonn Noel Kings B
2. Jai Phillips Kings A
CYO Jr. High Rookie of the Year:
1. Qumere Carr
2024 CYO CHAMPIONSHIP RESULT
Final Rankings 2023 season:
Division 1
1 Kings A 9-1
2 UCD 9-1
3 Magic 6-5
4 St Pauls 6-5
Division 2
5 Kings B 3-8
6 Spartans 6-5
7 JCC 2-9
8 Thunder 2-9
“Perseverance, secret of all triumphs”
Victor Hugo
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