IBCA E-Newsletter

Join the IBCA

Here are some of the many benefits of joining the Indiana basketball Coaches Association.

1. Utilize members-only IBCA website to stay abreast of issues related to our profession.
2. $1 million liability insurance for active coaches.
3. Become active and have ownership in the IBCA and IHSAA working relationship.
4. Utilize free job-placement service.
5. Receive IBCA newsletter.
6. Be elected to the Board of Directors or be appointed to a committee.
7. Be selected as a District Coach of the Year.
8. Receive an award at the IBCA Spring Clinic.
9. Receive college credit for Spring Clinic attendance.
10. Be selected as a Spring Clinic speaker and grow professionally by hearing other successful coaches speak.
11. Nominate a player, student manager, statistician or cheerleader for one of the IBCA Marion Crawley Memorial Scholarship college financial grants.
12. Nominate a handicapped student for a Junior Mannies Scholarship Grant funded by the IBCA.
13. Nominate your player for Academic All-State.
14. Nominate players for the Top 100 Underclass Boys' or Girls’ Showcases.
15. Be eligible for incentive awards when an entire coaching staff joins the IBCA.
16. Be eligible to become an Indiana All-Star Coach.
17. Be eligible to be selected to coach at one of the Top 100 Showcases.
18. Become more professional by joining your professional association.
19. Free admission to the IBCA/IHSAA Showcases.
20. Free admission to the All-Star Shootout events.
21. Promote your players using the Best of Indiana Program.
22. Discount on purchase of Fast Draw software from Fast Models Technologies.
23. Discount membership when joining the Indiana Basketball Hall of Fame as an Active Coach.
24. Membership in the IBCA brings automatic membership in the newly established National High School Basketball Coaches Association.
25. NABC (National Association of Basketball Coaches) offers a reduced membership rate for High School Coaches. Usual rate of $70 has been reduced to only $29 per year for IBCA Members. Also membership will give each member the potential of getting NCAA Final Four tickets.
26. WBCA (Women's Basketball Coaches Association) offers a free 2010-11 membership if you register at its member rate for the WBCA convention in Indianapolis, in conjunction with the 2011 NCAA Women's Final Four. By registering for the meeting, attendees will have the opportunity to purchase tickets within the WBCA's ticket block for the Women's Final Four.
27. Be professional and be an active part of your professional IBCA organization. The IBCA is yours … join and make it better.

Click here to download the 2010-2011 Membership Application.