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 start date: Fri 12/27/24
CYO Basketball 2025 SEASON is coming soon! All high school games this season will be held at the JCC in Utica, NY.
CONTACT:
(315) 796 6133
CYO 2025 SEASON Fri nights and Sat mornings at JCC Utica. CYO start date: Fri 12/27/2024
TEAM Applications are being accepted now through December 1st 2024. 2025 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 7th grade - 12th grade are not allowed to play CYO. CYO has 2 leagues for 6-8th graders and 9th-12th Graders and will be looking at a new 3rd - 5th grade division for this 2025 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
CYO Meeting: TUES 11/12/2024 6 PM @ Catholic Charities 1408 Genesee St Utica NY 13502
CYO opening day Fri 12/27/24 @ JCC Utica 5:30 PM
2025 CYO TEAM DIVISIONS
High School Division 2025 (grades 9 - 12)
10 - 11 TEAMS Projected and may change:
Catholic Thunder (gold)
UCD Utica Center for Development (Veterans Center) (gray)
St. Pauls Whitesboro (royal blue)
Spartans (red)
Proctor Football (black)
JCC (Carolina Blue)
Kings A (purple)
Kings B (white)
UT Elite (pink)
Warriors in development (navy)
Kings C in development (orange)
TEAM 12??? (maroon)
JR High Division (grades 6 - 8)
4 TEAMS Total in development and subject to change
St Marys
Red Knights
St Pauls
UCD
The little kids division (grades 3-4)
with some 2nd and 5th graders
(12 spots remain)
contact dgeorge@ccharityom.org for a spot
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)
JR HIGH
1 UCD
2. St Paul's Whitesboro
3 St Mary of Mt Carmel Team Airwell
4. St. Mary's Red Knights
High School games will be on Friday and Saturday mornings at the JCC in Utica, NY.
Jr. High games mostly Fri night game times
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 volunteers, coaches, and staff must attend Safe Environment Training and complete a required background check as part of the Safe Environment Training. Please click on the link to check for upcoming trainings in your area.
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 Byran 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 RESULTS
CYO League Champs 2024 D 1: UT Elite
Fri 3/22/24: UT Elite 66 - UCD 49
UT Elite- Desmond Brown 14 points, Bryan Sunday 13 points, Chris Mateo 11 points, Desmond Liggins 9 points, Dom Cook Jr. 8 points, UCD- Jaylin Holmes 28 points, Tyshawn Murph 10 points, Lameeke Lester 8 points.
CYO League Champs 2024 D 2: Chromies
Fri 3/22/24: Chromies 43 - Kings 37
Chromies- Peyton Way 16 points, Nick Perrotta 10 points, John Vitullo 9 points, Kings B- Jiovanni Santalucia 12 points, Da'vonn Noel 10, Abdul Jibril 8 points.
CYO Jr. High League Champs: UCD
Fri 3/22/24: UCD 53 - St Paul's 39
UCD- Jamari Henderson 14 points, Qumere Carr 12 points, Tyler Case 9 points, St Pauls- Xzayvier Niles 25 points, Matt Molina 6 points.
Schedules
Schedules are subject to change pending weather/snow day cancellations.
UPCOMING GAMES
ALL STAR GAME, SPORTSMANSHIP AWARDS, COACHES HONORED
FRI 3/28/2025 6 PM All Star GAME, AWARDS, & Sportsmanship Skills Challenge
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
Click below for CYO Schedule & link to NOAA weather.
Image Gallery
CYO 2024
CYO Players of the week 2024 season
(regular season only)
Week 8 (2/23/24)
Northend/Salutes: Javion Thomas 38 points (2024 CYO SEASON HIGH : 5 - 3 pointers, 10 - 2 pointers, 3/3 free throws. Runner up: Lameeke Lester UCD 20 points.
Week 7 (2/9/24-2/10/24)
Kings A Johnnie Grimes 26 points 1- 0 record.
Runner up: Justin Doherty 20 points 1- 0 record. Week 6 (2/2/24-2/3/24)
Players of the week
UT Elite Bryan Sunday 27 points 1- 0 record. Runner up: UT Elite Dom Cook Jr. 22 points with 1 - 0 record.
Week 5 (1/26/24-1/27/24)
Northend Koury Brown 30 points 2 wins. Runners up Bryan Sunday 30 with 1 - 0 record.
Week 4 (1/19/24-1/20/24)
Chromies Peyton Way 29 total points (1-1 record)
Runners up: UT Elite Chris Mateo 17, UCD Jaylin Holmes 17, & Thunder Jake Engelhart 29 points, Justin Doherty 19.
Week 3 (1/12/24-1/13/24)
Northend Pizza Koury Brown 44 total points with 2-0 record.
Runners up: UT Elite Chris Mateo 21 points and UCD Mike Williams 18 points both with 1-0 records.
Week 2 (1/5/24 - 1/6/24)
UT Elite Bryan Sunday 24 points with 1 win Runners up: UT Elite Desmond Liggins 20 with 1 win, Kings A Omar Osman 19 with 1 win, UCD Jaylen Holmes 16 points with 1 win, and Jake Rockford 27 total points and Jake Engelhart 28 total points both with 1 - 1 records.
Week 1 (12/29/23-12/30/23 weekend)
UT Elite Bryan Sunday 41 total points with 2 Wins Runner ups Thunder Jake Engelhart 38 total points & UCD Mike Williams 37 total points both with 1 - 1 records.
ALL STAR GAME Sat GAME 3/29/24
(All Star teams will be chosen by CYO staff. All Star team 1 will be coached by last season's championship coaches from Kings A Maki Robinson and Lia Savage & All Star team 2 will be coached by CYO staff Jamar and Jaydon)
All star day will feature 14 Sportsmanship Award winners (awarded by each coach), League MVP, Champions will receive their trophies, and Sportsmanship Award winners will participate in a skills challenge. Drawing for CYO Raffle will also occur at All Star Game 3/29/24 4:15 PM(please support our raffle $1 tix to win 65" Vizio TV or 2nd prize Airpods 2nd gen)
Congratulations 2024 CYO ALL STARS!
Davonn Noel (Kings B)
Abdul Jibril (Kings B)
Johnnie Grimes (Kings A)
Omar Osman (Kings A)
Jaquiese Huyler (Kings A)
Chris Mateo (UT Elite)
Jarrell Rudder (UT Elite)
Bryan Sunday (UT Elite)
Dom Cook Jr. (UT Elite)
Desmond Brown (UT Elite)
Desmond Liggins (UT Elite)
Jordan Palmer (St Pauls)
Jake Engelhart (Thunder)
Justin Doherty (Thunder)
Lameeke Lester (UCD)
Tyshawn Murph (UCD)
Jaylin Holmes (UCD)
Jamari Henderson (UCD) * Jr High Player moving up for All Star Game
Jake Rockford (JCC)
Jason Disla (JCC)
Chris Wiater (JCC)
Ravi Rao (JCC)
Koury Brown (Northend/Salutes)
Javion Thomas (Northend/Salutes)
Sean Miles (Northend/Salutes)
Micah Barber (Northend/Salutes)
Devean Moskul (Spartans)
John Vitullo (Chromies)
Peyton Way (Chromies)
Anthony Barres (Chromies)
Joe Calabrese (Chromies)
Congratulations 2023 All Star selections!!
All Star Team GOLD coached by last years champ: Simon Davis
Lameeke Lester UCD
Tyler Brennan JCC
Rashaud Jackson Kings A
Jah'zir Ellis UCD
Kishawn Boykin Kings A
Peyton Way Spartans
Walter Phillips KIngs B
Giroux Arcuri JCC
Isaiah Wiggins Magic
Frank Trotta St Pauls
Ebrima Krubally Kings B
Andy Pawloski St Pauls (named as all star but not playing in game)
All Star Team BLUE coached by CYO staff Lillie and Cam
Darien Nevarez Kings A
Santino Alsante Thunder
Cameron Zanker UCD
Jake Engelhart Thunder
Leroy Lester UCD
Johnny Vitullo Spartans
Johnnie Grimes Kings A
Mauuz Soori Kings B
Adrian Matthews Magic
Genaro Graziano St Pauls
Luke Wilson Magic
CYO 2023 All Star Game featured awards:
8 Sportsmanship Awards:
Ebrima Krubally Kings B
Aiden Wilson Magic
Jacob Halpin Spartans (winner of the all star skills competition)
Justin Murphy St Pauls
Chris Wiater JCC
Yousif Erzaij UCD
Daniel DeLaRosa Kings A
Aiden Grimaldi-Vance Thunder
League MVP: Darien Nevarez
League Scoring Title: Andy Pawloski
2 Rookies of the Year: Devon Rone Kings B & Johnny Vitullo Spartans
Volunteer Recognition: Thank you to our CYO coaches!
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